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I have or had in my collection most singles and EPs by John's Children and their individual members, including UK Picture sleeves Desdemona and  The Love I Thought I'd Found.   I have all  singles on Track including one of the actual authentic pressings of Midsummer Night's Scene with intact center which I have played once in over 30 years.   I have many of the releases on Columbia both stock and promo issues.  I have the Spanish EP with PS.  I also have many test pressings including Come and Play with both written and printed labels, as well as many acetates.  If you have a request, please write to me & if the time is right, I will try to get it on ebay.  Please write to me through ebay message or quickly to my email slicz@cs.com.  

T.REX TYRANNOSAURUS REX [pre-T.Rex]

Rare from UK JOHN'S CHILDREN

"Go Go Girl" [Marc Bolan written tune] b/w "Jagged Time Lapse".      STOCK VERSION. 

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FROM JOHN'S CHILDREN WEBSITE: http://www.johnschildren.co.uk/

"Go Go Girl" b/w "Jagged Time Lapse"
Track, UK, 604 010, Oct. '67.

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John's Children

Track Record 604010.  Vinyl VG or better.  Solid center hole, not pronged.  Both versions were made.  Pictures are blurry, but labels are crisp.  Sorry. 

From a 3000+ item John's Children Marc Bolan collection.

John's Children

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John's Children, formerly "The Silence", were a Leatherhead, England 1960s pop-art/mod band featuring future T. Rex frontman Marc Bolan, whose 1967 single "Desdemona" was banned by the BBC for the controversial lyric, "Lift up your skirt and fly". Bolan was with the band for about four months. His main roles were to be the band's composer and play electric guitar (until then, he only played acoustic guitar). His singing voice is sometimes lead in "unofficial" recordings only (demos, BBC radio sessions). (His voice is clearly heard on "Desdemona", "Midsummer's Night Scene", "Sarah Crazy Child" and on Andy Elison's 'solo' single "Cornflake Zoo".) Throughout their short career, they were not known for musical precision.

Their manager was Simon Napier-Bell, who devised white stage outfits and an outrageous stage act which included fighting each other and Bolan whipping the stage with a chain.

Andrew (Andy) Ellison (born 5 July 1946, Finchley, North London) is a musician and vocalist best known as the frontman in John's Children, Jet and Radio Stars.

During the height of John's Children's almost non-existent popularity, he carried a pillowcase stuffed with feathers, throwing them around the stage. On the group's (in)famous 1967 tour with The Who, Ellison threw feathers around the stage so much that Roger Daltrey could not sing.[citation needed]

A song sung by Ellison, "It's Been A Long Time," appears on the soundtrack - better known for its contributions from The Spencer Davis Group and Traffic - to the film, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush. "It's Been A Long Time" also features on the compilation Backtrack 1, a Track Records compilation featuring The Who and Hendrix among others.

Radio Stars[1], a punk rock band, had only one UK Top 40 hit, "Nervous Wreck" in early 1978. It peaked at #39. The b-side to the single was a cover of Marc Bolan's "Horrible Breath", a John's Children staple.

Early life and career

The son of a lorry driver, Bolan grew up in post-war Hackney, East London, amongst a Jewish family, and later lived in Wimbledon, southwest London. He fell in love with the rock and roll of Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Arthur Crudup and Chuck Berry at an early age and became a Mod, hanging around coffee bars such as the 2 I's in Soho. He appeared in an episode of the television show Orlando as a Mod extra.

At the age of nine, Bolan was given his first guitar and began a skiffle band shortly after, and at fifteen, he left school "by mutual consent."

He briefly joined a modelling agency and became a "John Temple Boy," appearing in a clothing catalogue for the menswear store. He was used as a model for their suits in their catalogues as well as a model for cardboard cut-outs to be displayed in shop windows. "TOWN" Magazine featured him as an early example of the Mod movement in a photo spread with a couple of other "faces".

Bolan then shifted his focus back towards music and, at age seventeen, made an attempt to kick-start a career in the business. Sporting a denim cap and playing an acoustic guitar, he decided to try his hand at the British folk circuit. The sound resembled a Dylan/Donovan mix and his songs consisted of some Dylan covers and a few other folksy tunes. To complete the new look and sound, Mark even gave himself the new stage name Toby Tyler. Some of his earliest known music available are covers of "The Road I'm On(Gloria)" by Dion and a recently discovered recording of "All at Once."

After changing his name again to Marc Bolan (via Mark Bowland) while with Decca Records he released his first single "The Wizard." In early 1967 Manager Simon Napier Bell added him to the Pop-Art/mod band John's Children, which achieved some success as a live band but sold few records. A John's Children single written by Marc Bolan called "Desdemona" was banned by the BBC for its line "lift up your skirt and fly." His tenure with the band was brief. Bolan claimed to have spent time with a wizard in Paris who allegedly gave him secret knowledge and could levitate. The time spent with him was often alluded to but remained "mythical"; in reality the wizard was probably U.S. actor Riggs O'Hara with whom Bolan made a trip to Paris in 1965. His songwriting took off and he began writing many of the neo-romantic songs that would appear on his first albums with Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Besides Berry, Bolan's influences included Bob Dylan, Syd Barrett, Cliff Richard and Elvis Presley.

Tyrannosaurus Rex

When John's Children collapsed (amongst other problems, the band were stunned to discover their equipment had been stolen from a studio, according to a Bolan biographer), Bolan and Steve Peregrine Took created Tyrannosaurus Rex, a psychedelic-folk rock acoustic duo, playing Bolan's songs, with Took playing assorted hand and kit percussion and occasional bass to Bolan's acoustic guitars and voice.

This version of Tyrannosaurus Rex released four albums and four singles, flirting with the charts, getting as high as number fifteen and getting airplay and support from Radio 1 DJ John Peel. One of the highlights of this era was playing at the first free Hyde Park concert in 1968. Drug-taking and free spirited Took was fired from the group after their first American tour. A rock and roller at heart, Bolan began bringing amplified guitar lines into the duo's music, buying a vintage Gibson Les Paul guitar (later featured on the cover of the album T. Rex in 1970). After replacing Took with Mickey Finn, he let the electric influences come forward even further on A Beard of Stars, the final album to be credited to Tyrannosaurus Rex. It closed with a song, Elemental Child, featuring a long electric guitar break influenced by Jimi Hendrix.

Then Bolan—by now married to his girlfriend June Child (a former secretary to the manager of another of his heroes, Syd Barrett)—shortened the group's name to T. Rex and wrote and recorded "Ride A White Swan," dominated by a rolling, hand clapping back-beat, Bolan's electric guitar and Finn's percussion.

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No Reserve.    I haed thousands of items in my collection.   John's Children and all members, Marc Bolan, Tyrannosaurus Rex, T.Rex, Andy Ellison, Radio Stars, Jook, Jet, Gloria Jones, Marsha Hunt, etc.  from around the world.   I have the originals by most of these artists, as well as demos, test pressings and acetates.  I also have most reissues and many cover versions. Record Collector magazine grading system used: http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/rarepriceguide.htm.

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