Get It Onで有名なT-REXです。グラムロックと呼ばれたジャンルのグループでした。グループと言ってもマークボランそのものみたいなバンドでした。マークボランは30才を目の前にして交通事故で死亡しました。伝説のアーティストです。歌い方に特徴があり、独特のビブラートを聞かせたものでした。サディスティック・ミカ・バンド時代の加藤和彦の歌い方が似ていますね。"Metal Guru", "Telegram Sam"などの有名な曲が入ったアルバムTHE SLIDERから一曲紹介します。スローテンポのロックです。
"BALLROOMS OF MARS" T-REX
You gonna look fine
Be primed for dancing
You're gonna trip and glide
All on the trembling plane
Your diamond hands
Will be stacked with roses
And wind and cars
And people of the past
I'll call you things
Just when the moon sings
And place your face in stone
Upon the hill of stars
And gripped in the arms
Of the changeless madman
We'll dance our lives away
In the Ballrooms of Mars
You talk about day
I'm talking about night time
When the monsters call out
The name of men
Bob Dylan knows
And I bet Alan Freed did
There are things in night
That better not to behold
You dance
With your lizard leather boots on
And pull the strings
That change the faces of men
You diamond browed hag
You're a gutter-gaunt gangster
John Lennon knows your name
And I've seen his
"BALLROOMS OF MARS" T-REX
You gonna look fine
Be primed for dancing
You're gonna trip and glide
All on the trembling plane
Your diamond hands
Will be stacked with roses
And wind and cars
And people of the past
I'll call you things
Just when the moon sings
And place your face in stone
Upon the hill of stars
And gripped in the arms
Of the changeless madman
We'll dance our lives away
In the Ballrooms of Mars
You talk about day
I'm talking about night time
When the monsters call out
The name of men
Bob Dylan knows
And I bet Alan Freed did
There are things in night
That better not to behold
You dance
With your lizard leather boots on
And pull the strings
That change the faces of men
You diamond browed hag
You're a gutter-gaunt gangster
John Lennon knows your name
And I've seen his