BOWIE & BOLAN WERE ALMOST BANDMATES
MARC BOLAN and DAVID BOWIE would have been bandmates had it not been for = the T-REX star’s wife, who disliked her husband’s musical pal.
Legendary producer Tony Visconti has revealed Bowie and Bolan worked to= gether in the late 1960s and came very close to forming their own supergr= oup.
He tells Spinner.com, "All I wanted to do was promote Marc as an electr= ic guitarist; I thought it would have been a great coup to have him play = on David’s record. David was extremely happy to have Marc play on the rec= ord.
"After Marc had played this brilliant solo… (Bolan’s wife) June just = sniped at David, ‘He’s too good for you! He shouldn’t play on your music!= ‘ and she dragged Marc out. It was one of the few times that I saw him at= a loss for words.
"Marc just wanted to be a star; this was like the carpet was pulled out= from under him. If Bowie had asked him to join the band, he probably wou= ld have." Instead the two became glam-rock icons in the 1970s.
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