...coming your way on September 11th.
Dear All
Here is the press release for the forthcoming CD "The Final Cuts",
which is being released via Demon/Edsel.
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Following the publication in 2002 of a newspaper story about Rolan
Bolan, son of Marc Bolan and Gloria Jones, Rolan received an unusual
phone call. A former employee of AIR Studios in central London asked
whether he would like to meet her so that she could give him some
lost master tapes of his father's that she had kept carefully at home
in Weston-Super-Mare following the closure of the Oxford Street
recording facility in 1989, she had kept them carefully at her home
in Weston-Super-Mare, Avon, in southwest England until such time as
she was able to give them to Bolan's son.
To Rolan's delight, the tapes revealed recordings made from October
1976 to April 1977, not only by his father and T. Rex, but also duets
featuring both of his parents. These included the full session for
the recording of the Phil Spector classic, "To Know You Is To Love
You", and previously unheard versions of "Tame My Tiger" (a b-side to
the final T.Rex single). To everyone's surprise and delight, Gloria
was featured as lead vocalist on the "Tiger" out-takes.
Rolan has now kindly made these tapes available for this release,
thirty years after their original recording. Together they make up
the bulk of the final recorded studio work from the final twelve
months of Marc Bolan's life. With the addition of four tracks
contributed by Thunderwing Productions Ltd, recorded at Decibel
Studios in Stamford Hill in April 1977, the picture is almost
complete. For the first time, we are able to enjoy and understand
more fully in context the direction in which Marc Bolan's music may
have been heading as he approached his thirties.
Seven of the twelve songs on this CD were not released during Bolan's
lifetime. It will never be known whether or not they would have seen
the light of day, had tragedy not struck in September 1977, but by
including them here, in master-tape clarity, we hope to give a
genuine representation of the final examples of Marc's enduring
mastery of his craft.
The handsomely packaged and slipcased album, with full track-by-track
annotation and contemporary previously unpublished photographs by
Barry Plummer, will be released on 11th September 2006.
TRACKLISTING
Hot George / Love & The Foxey Boy / Celebrate Summer / Love Drunk /
Write Me A Song / Mellow Love / Dandy In The Underworld / Crimson
Moon / To Know You Is To Love You / Tame My Tiger / Shy Boy / 20th
Century Baby
Extended Play: Tame My Tiger [Gloria Jones vocal] / Mellow Love
[alternate version] / To Know You Is To Love You [instrumental]
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All tracks are mixed directly from master tapes and nothing has been
added posthumously to the recordings.
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