14 Sep '07 - 157 W - + 14 - 20 Adam Ant on T. Rex

As we sat chatting over lunch one beautiful sunny afternoon, long ago now, in Odette’s restaurant in Primrose Hill, North London, Adam Ant told me that if he wanted to listend to a happy record he would choose ‘any T. Rex single’.

“I love Glam rock,” he said, “And I think that Mac Bolan and T. Rex were Glam at its best.”

As I mentioned before, September 16th is the sad 30th anniversary of Bolan’s death. I’ve always thought that Adam Ant was, to ‘80s pop, was Bolan was to the ‘70s. They share a sense of pop-rocking theatrics, they both have that certain glinting sexuality and they both, in their heyday, had undoubted star quality that made them each, for all too short a time, the undisputed kings of the British pop scene.

See what you reckon. Bolan’s Telegram Sam:

And Adam Ant’s Goody Two Shoes:

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