“Hot Love” by T. Rex

"Hot Love" was a stand-alone single, the follow-up to "Ride a White Swan", out on Fly on 12 February 1971, and it gave T. Rex their first number one in Britain, where it sat on top for six weeks. Marc Bolan wrote it, and Tony Visconti cut it at Trident Studios over two days that January; it's the first T. Rex side with a full drum kit, Bill Fifield sitting in at Visconti's suggestion. Radio 1 listeners had already heard a rawer, lazier version back in December.

Then came Top of the Pops that March. Bolan turned up in shiny satin, with glitter on his face that was his stylist Chelita Secunda's idea, the first time he'd worn either on television, and those two appearances did as much as anything to set glam rock rolling.

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