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Electric warrior is a 1971 album by marc bolan s band t.
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Electric warrior is the sixth studio album by british rock band t.
Rex s transformation from hippie folk rockers into flamboyant avatars of trashy rock roll.
There are a few vestiges of those early days remaining in the acoustic driven ballads but electric warrior spends most of its time in a swinging hip shaking groove powered by marc bolan s warm electric guitar.
The album cover for electric warrior by t.
Rex s uncommonly unique electric warrior catapulted leader marc bolan to stardom triggered an ongoing fascination with glam rock and launched a movement that soon involved david bowie roxy music mott the hoople and more.
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Rex their sixth since their debut as tyrannosaurus rex in 1968 and their second under the name t.
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The album that essentially kick started the u k.
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Rex being the second album under the name t.
Rex s electric warrior appeared in september 1971 that the u k.
The album marks a big turning point in the band s sound as it dispenses with the folk oriented music of the previous albums.
Some people wonder who started glam rock.
The album marked a turning point in the band s sound moving away from the folk oriented music of the group s previous albums and pioneering a flamboyant pop friendly take on electric rock roll known as glam rock.
Rex s electric warrior electric warrior was released on september 24 1971 it became the band s first hit album but electric warrior wasn t t.
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Rex with the first four billed as tyrannosaurus rex.
Glam scene came out of the closet if you will functioning as a flamboyantly subversive antidote to the dwindling relevance of psychedelia and the painfully non ironic pretentiousness of the prog rock movement.
At once sardonic flamboyant and trashy t.
However it wasn t until t.
We ll probably never know but if there was an album that could pinpoint where the explosion began it would probably be t.