T.Rex - Metal Guru (HQ) |Christmas TOTP '72|

[sweetsavo]

Einen METAL GURU.....findet man heute nicht...alles Weicheier

[sweetsavo]

Besser gings Nicht.........

[40Deeful]

Noel Edmonds born a cock lived as a cock and will die a cock

[heehawluck1]

@40Deeful .... and a rich one. LOL

[Leelu277]

love him always

[71shoelover]

Happy days and REAL music..Never mind at least we have the X Factor. BETTER DAYS!

[mccheyne007]

Noel Edmunds 40 years ago...

Does this man never die! What age is he? 108....

TOTP,

TOP GEAR< SWAPSHOP<NOELS HOUSE PARTY< TELLY ADDICTS<DEAL OR NO DEAL,theres no end to this mans talents

[wmprokipchak]

this is what I say when I get on my knees (with my headphones on) to pray:

"Metal Guru..is it you?" (cause sadly our poor Glam God passed on to the other side of the curtain). I'm looking forward to some "Solid Gold Easy Action" when I take MY final bow.

[JaJolka53]

Był synem Simeona Felda - pół Polaka i pół Rosjanina żydowskiego pochodzenia kierowcy ciężarówki i Phyllis - właścicielki straganu warzywno-owocowego w dzielnicy Soho.

[JaJolka53]

Aż dreszcze przechodzą.

[TheEchovoices]

miss him sooooo much, love the way he would sing over his own voice so ahead of his time this boy was, he had to meet that nut that drove him to his death!

[scouserla1]

great song from my early years, can anyone please tell me what is a metal guru?

[TheEchovoices]

@scouserla1 Metal is for ROCK, Guru is like a man who meditates, so I guess his message was just that really.

[scouserla1]

@TheEchovoices a rock meditator? i'm not doubting your theory,but is there anyone out there who is certain of what one is, you could well be right mate?

[TheEchovoices]

@scouserla1 Well not much of Marc's lyrics made much sense really, but his music was so fabtastic it didn't really matter luv, Cheers.

[scouserla1]

@TheEchovoices i know they didnt, its one of those questions in the pub when its being played no one knows?

[TheEchovoices]

@scouserla1 lol I do not know I don't do pubs lollllll you funny you from our Great Britain then?

[scouserla1]

@TheEchovoices erm yes, a small fishing village called liverpool, what parish are you from that makes you body swirve pubs? lol

[TheEchovoices]

@scouserla1 Oh I love Liverpool ppl huge Beatles fan here too, I am from London, but live in the USA, was never into pubs really, I used to love to out performing at clubs singing, but I never got into the drinking part, never cared for it, I got high off me music lol

[scouserla1]

@TheEchovoices i'm no dean martin, i like a few scoops but only at the weekends, didnt scouserla give you a clue as to where i'm from? lol

[JCSmithSA]

OMW!!! How far did music/video came since then. And this was a top hit!!! LMAO!

[Tangaloa1]

Metal riffs all over Bolan's music. Pioneer of metal music riffs whether intentional or not.

[dunbunter]

Love, love, love. This is it. So sad Bolan went away.

[nicistyx]

The best 3 minute single ever.Never fails to lift my mood.Rock n Roll T Rextasy.

[ZackJohnerly]

GREAT. This was when Glam Metal sill had Rock uniqueness.

[funkychick60]

WOW, nice outfit, Marc!

[urlygurly1]

very nice

[mrmalcolmgn]

@njugga bout a car.

[mbuna7575]

Für mich persönlich einer seiner besten Songs

[artdamaged]

@mbuna7575 Same here.

[Andreawitz123]

R.I.P. mein Freund- auf meinen tapes im Auto bist Du noch heute stets vertreten!

[Tscherno1000]

@Andreawitz123 das war noch richtig gute musik,schade das die zeit vobei ist.



[artdamaged]

@Andreawitz123 Ditto!

[DasManu1997]

Hallo Marc! Ich werde eure Musik immer im Herzen haben !

[alphasex5]

how cool

[DiamondSmilesAgain]

First three records I ever bought Slade, T-Rex and The Sweet loved it!

[MrLFLEX]

Marc Bolan est la plus importante pop star anglaise du début des années 7O !



[ruggy19]

off his fucking tits lol

[hearditman]

No ta, would'nt be able to keep them down especially if you and the rest of your club talk about Slade in this delusional fashion.

[lawabidinganarchist]

Only the good die young :(

[Morrison1249]

esto es musica y no chingaderas de su mugroso regueton y su bandacon esta cancion les rompes la madre a todos los naquitos que escuchan porquerias



[robharding1957]

wow what a band,,,but slade were the guvnors, make no mistake,,,noddy and the boys were just so superior to anything that came their way,there comes a time in life when you just got to hold your hand up,,cheers now and join the club,,,youll be made welcome,free tea and buiscuts,,,

[hearditman]

@robharding1957 keep yer tea and biscuits, Slade were the poor man's Beatles and very "safe" for young guys to say they liked. T.Rex were more edgy and made some great records.

[robharding1957]

@hearditman what musical planet are you from,,slade were far superior to t,rex and the rest of the glam bands,,but by the same token l must admit,,bolan did come up with some catchy numbers,,still some tea and biscuits left if your interested,,

[stanibol]

Aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhh

[TheAccelerated]

Unique, beatful and soooo floating

[bernadettebaxter]

Marc at the top of his game, brilliant, gives me goose bumps and takes me right back to 1972.

A boy in my class at school, (Brian Tomkins, Sacred Heart,), was confused about the title, he said to me , "i love that new song by Marc Bolan, .."Man on the roof, is it you?".

I always sing those lyrics when i hear this tune.

[paulytwotanks]

@bernadettebaxter I had a similar missunderstanding to this song at the time, but i thought it was 'Marily Lou' (Like Mary Lou). I think we just tried to make sense of the lyrics in our own way. At 9 years old I had never heard of the term 'Guru' let alone a metal one!

[SuperAntares1966]

fucking classic.....

[mymusic777ify]

That smile can melt any heart! Marc will always be with us and all around us,he brings us together with his music and charm! God bless his soul!

[ABILL1959]

Keep a bit of Marc in your Heart. God Bless All.

[isayrawr100]

haha see the camera men tearing through the studio, rushing to get into position

[FruityCakie]

Love how he always has a smle when performing :)

[thebladerunner11]

Hard to think those girls would be nearly 6o years old now!!!

[jasonptify]

marc bolan = musical genius RIP

[sunogiisan]

今見ると、もの凄いインパクトのあるキャラクターだ！！ミッキー­フィンと並ぶと魅力が倍増する！！デビットボウイとミックロンソ­ン、矢沢とジョニー大倉が良い例だ！！なんと言っても声が良い！­！売れるはずだ！！マイケルジャクソンはマークボランの息使いを­真似している感じがする！！

[damon6411]

wetukman, I was 9 too. I used to wait by the radio for them to play this song.

The first time I saw it on Top of the Pops it sent shivers down my spine.

It might not be this video, as this is at christmas, but there was the same going to negative effect with the picture at the beginning, when standing in front of our black and white TV, Marc's hair went white, and I got a physical rush of some kind. It was my brain releasing endorphins I guess.

It's such a great song - even today.

[wetukman]

I was 9 when this came out greeaat song, oh the memories

[TheEctomorph]

Great track by Marc Bolan & T. Rex, which spent 4 weeks at the top of the UK charts, back in May and June of 1972. Back then - in the early summer of that year - who would have guessed that Bolan's time as the 'biggest' pop/rock star in the land was almost over, and that he would never again occupy the number one position in the British singles (or indeed) album charts.

Mr Bolan' reign may have been an ephemeral one; but it was also a glorious one. God rest his soul.

[HackerGuitarist]

lol...he keeps forgetting to play the guitar

[tanx54]

Bolan stuff from Tyrannosaurus rex till Dandy in the Underworld was quality,Bowie's legacy will never match bolans.

[Powderwombat]

@tanx54 Rubbish

[pontello3]

fucking great song!!!!

so modern ,so innovative! nobody have this creativity anymore nowdays!

[MsJollycholly]

I am again 16 years old when I hear this, sitting in my dark bedroom, listening to Marc Bolan, not really understanding - but instinctively KNOWING that I loved what I was hearing - didn't really understand it and still too young to do anything but turn up the volume on my SONY Clock Radio with the flip digital numerals (1972) only to have my mothers say, "could you PLEASE turn that racket DOWN????" Treasured youthful memory.......

[ghodium]

rock on tony blackburn

[kirkwallboy]

At the age of 11 this song was just like being in an explosion. An explosion of the heart and soul, not an explosion that would hurt anybody!!!!

[thewelly1973]

was bolan a puff

[albertusj]

@thewelly1973 So bloody what if he was?

[thewelly1973]

@albertusj was he a bandit

[ironbuttermilk]

I like this song, but it always seemed slightly like a tossed off idea rather than a finished song. It seems to need another part to pull it together. Now all the Bolan fans will come gunning for me. LOL. Seriously though, I am a fan and do like this song, but Marc always seemed to me to have a short attention span or something. Great ideas, but he didn't always develope them completely. He was utterly unique though.

[tanx54]

Bowie had the greater body off work, don't think so., Bolan had released more in 10 years than Bowie has to date.

[thetragicyouth]

@tanx54 did no-one ever tell you it's quality that matters, not quantity? Bolan may have rushed out shed loads of product, but Bowie's legacy will be longer-lasting and far more important and influential.

[northernhecklet]

@thetragicyouth I'm not sure where you're coming from with that. Bowie has been pretty prolific - and also has a few duff songs behind him too. Personally I thought any Bolan v Bowie rivalry had been left in the 70s - I love both. the Big rivalry at the time was Slade v T Rex - now I'm middle aged I can see the appeal of both - I was a slade man back then, but prefer T Rex now - but still have the odd yearning to hear Noddy and the boys.

[utasabine]

this was my first single i bought. What a great band and i love this song.

[TheGil1946]

pas mal la video et lla chanson

[missmarypickford]

people talk about bowie on totps doing starman as the life changing moment, but this is the performance that changed mine-electrifying!!!

[thepinktent]

@missmarypickford The sound of T.rextasy in its purist form..always leaves me feeling slighty giddy its such a rush..

[headofapollo]

@thepinktent Me too! When it used to come on the radio at the time, it used to send me delirious! That bit in the middle of the song where it goes 'aaaaaaah, yeah, yeah, yeah'=OMG!

[thepinktent]

@headofapollo Its an amazingly evocative record. I love Bowie & he probably had the greater body of work & career, but Bolan was the forerunner..He made it all possible.

[missmarypickford]

@thepinktent 'bolan was the foreunner'- bang a gong i love it!!!!

[cretan982]

Marc always looks like he was having great fun on stage. It's wonderful that he burned so brightly in the short time he gave us.

[EssexBoy696969]

As someone else said, you don't appreciate the quality of this music when you are 8. This stuff from the early 70's are truly legendary songs!

[MOJOPIN1960]

I remember Noel Edmunds had the Zinc Alloy album as his record of the week on Radio 1 , Played a track a day - I specifically remember him playing " Change " and laughing at the end of it ! But Bolan had a lot of good friends on the airwaves ...Radio 1's Johnnie Walker , Stuart Henry from Radio Luxemberg , and many more ! GREAT CLIP !

[Feisty1967]

I still don't understand the significance of the Robin Hood hats, it doesn't seem terribly Christmassy.

[prospectus91]

@Feisty1967 Maybe it's an elf thing.

[fosters2k8]

love always

[oldpangloss]

no deal, noel.

[Feisty1967]

I wish I had a time tunnel to travel back to 1972, great songs!

[wastl700]

@Feisty1967 ... have posted such an idea at some other videos from early 60ies or 70ies clips... "Think 'bout constructing those machine, help me" ... :)

[Feisty1967]

Marc Bolan, incredible. We miss you Marc.

[ladyislingering]

Ohhhh, Marc. Such a fox.

[jmedia1]

Incredible times!

[GIFKA100]

Metal Guru. One of the great tunes if not the greatest of that era and certainly my favourite of them all. Bolan had such charisma. He stood out in the crowd of glam rockers of that period and wont ever be forgotten.

[imajeepster]

what MGMT aspires to...

[SuperNutty23]

RIP marc...you were a genius...

[hoddlewaddle]

i was 10

didnt appreciate how great t rex were then

[elvengadorcerocho]

@hoddlewaddle man, at least you were the lucky enough for not to grow up listening to crap like justin bieber, hannah montana and the jonas brothers...

[Writeowl]

@hoddlewaddle Marc had something going. It floated my boat and I was four years old at the time!LOL.

[kle3good]

Was 12 when this was out. So was just coming into the music thing. Couldnt figure why his songs were soooo shorrrt. BUt they were great. Kinda looks like Marie Osmond after a really bad night out..LOL.

[stafylides]

@kle3good  funny that one !!!

P.S I was 12 then too, those were the days eh!!

[ColumRogers]

I adore Marc Bolan and T.Rex i wasn't even alive when they were at their height but they are just amazing.

[SuperNutty23]

@ColumRogers true statement friend..

[llordflamer]

my first single

[Jomei2810]

GREAT GREAT GREAT...

Not The Shity Wity Dirt Music From Today...

Thanks For Posting

[khisanth75]

great quality video mate