Hell, I don't know, who am I to comment on a pansocial phenomenon like Marc Bolan? Charisma? He had no shortage of that. The music or the lyrics? Or maybe the super-charged sexual urgency it conveys...? No - it's more than all of that. Much more. The phenomenon that is Marc Bolan is far greater than the sum of its parts.

Naturally, whatever I say it's going to be laced with personal opinion. Often I find this is the case - Marc IS a personal experience. But I'm not alone - those that have "a little Marc in their hearts" seem to harbour a distinctly individual, personal and unbreakable attachment to the man and his music.

In a series of exchanges that took place on the Marc Bolan mailing list - "Slider" - many people could recall in vivid detail "the first time I heard Marc Bolan..." and would go on to relate how his voice, the music, the guitar sound etc had "touched" them urging them to find out more. Indeed we all still suffer from that! It's an appetite that shall never be satisfied.