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1970 single by T. Rex
"Ride a White Swan"
Single by T. Rex
B-side
"Is It Love?"
"Summertime Blues"
Released
9 October 1970
Recorded
1 July 1970
Genre
Glam rock
rock and roll[1]
Length
2:14
Label
Fly
Songwriter(s)
Marc Bolan
Producer(s)
Tony Visconti
T. Rex singles chronology
"By the Light of a Magical Moon" (1970)
"Ride a White Swan" (1970)
"Hot Love" (1971)
"Ride a White Swan" is a song by English band T. Rex. It was released as a stand-alone single on 9 October 1970 by record label Fly, and was the first single credited under the band's new, shorter name. Like all of the band's songs, it was written by the group's singer, guitarist and founder Marc Bolan. The song was included on the US version of the 1970 album, T. Rex.
The song was the band's first hit, and, according to Ned Raggett of AllMusic, the song "inadvertently founded glam rock mania"[2] although Bolan did not wear characteristic glam stage clothing until the promotion of follow up single "Hot Love".[3]
^Stanley, Bob (13 September 2013). "It Came From the Suburbs: Marc Bolan and David Bowie". Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop. Faber & Faber. p. 329. ISBN 978-0-571-28198-5.
^Raggett, Ned. "Ride a White Swan – Marc Bolan & T. Rex,T. Rex | Listen, Appearances, Song Review | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
^Mark Paytress, Bolan - The Rise And Fall Of A 20th Century Superstar (Omnibus Press 2002) ISBN 0-7119-9293-2, pp 180-181
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