20th Century Boy information

"20th Century Boy"
"20th Century Boy"
	Picture sleeve from Germany
Single by T. Rex
B-side	"Free Angel"
Released	2 March 1973
Genre	Glam rock; hard rock;
Length	3:39
Label	T. REX (UK); Ariola (Germany);
Songwriter(s)	Marc Bolan
Producer(s)	Tony Visconti
T. Rex singles chronology

"20th Century Boy" is a song by T. Rex, written by Marc Bolan, released as a stand-alone single on 2 March 1973.^[4]

It entered in the UK Singles Chart at number 3, on 10 March 1973 and peaked three weeks in a row at that position.^[5] It stayed a total of nine weeks in the UK Chart.^[5]

"20th Century Boy" was not featured on the album Tanx, released at the same time in early March. It was later added as a bonus track in the reissues of Tanx from year 1985 and on all the versions released since. The song returned to the UK Top 20 in 1991, peaking at No. 13,^[6] after being used in a TV commercial for Levi's starring Brad Pitt.^[7] The song was also used in the opening of the 2016 film The Purge: Election Year, and is the namesake of the manga series 20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa.

^ Savage, Jon (1 February 2013). "The 20 best glam-rock songs of all time". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
^ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 822. ISBN 978-0-7432-0169-8. Bolan (...) started writing manic chant-along glam-rock hits such as "Metal Guru," "20th Century Boy," "Solid Gold Easy Action," and "Children of the Revolution."
^ Paytress, Mark (2009). Bolan: The Rise And Fall Of A 20th Century Superstar. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-1-8460-9147-6.
^ T. Rex - 20th Century Boy, retrieved 6 September 2022
^ ^a ^b "20th Century Boy". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
^ Cite error: The named reference UK2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ The Oxford Handbook of Music and Advertising. Oxford University Press. 2021. p. 457.

[1] Savage, Jon (1 February 2013). "The 20 best glam-rock songs of all time". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 May 2016.

[2] Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 822. ISBN 978-0-7432-0169-8. Bolan (...) started writing manic chant-along glam-rock hits such as "Metal Guru," "20th Century Boy," "Solid Gold Easy Action," and "Children of the Revolution."

[3] Paytress, Mark (2009). Bolan: The Rise And Fall Of A 20th Century Superstar. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-1-8460-9147-6.

[4] T. Rex - 20th Century Boy, retrieved 6 September 2022

[UK-5] "20th Century Boy". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 11 September 2020.

[UK2-6] Cite error: The named reference UK2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[7] The Oxford Handbook of Music and Advertising. Oxford University Press. 2021. p. 457.

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