Marc bolan death tree vandalism
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This is a comment on You Tube and a reply written by Mark Rowe which is in essence using much of the same info written by Fee Warner a few days ago. The Bolan Tree is "The Devil's Tree" ????
You may wish to reply on You Tube, rather than here so you can reply to Dennis Mccarthy himself. Also have a look at his other videos.
ORIGINAL POST BY Dennis Mccarthy 23 hours ago
i would say its wood rot just my opinion and my other opinion is its good its hopefully coming down,, its the devils tree ive been lots of time and found it depressing,, just leave the bust there thats enough i think thanks
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Your opinion that the vandalism to the Bolan Tree is quote "its good its hopefully coming down,, its the devils tree" is frankly hurtful to the people who LIKE the tree and are better informed than you.
It is a Tree. The Devil does not come into it. As we have written many times but people don't
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Two centuries later, and another memorial to an English legend. Only this time the tree in question wasn't planted in honour of the dead hero, but was the direct cause of his death.
An unprepossessing sycamore on Queens Ride, Barnes in London marks the spot where T-Rex singer/songwriter Marc Bolan died on 16th September 1977. Bolan was returning from a night out at Mortons, a club in Mayfair, with his girlfriend Gloria Jones (singer of the original Tainted Love). They were less than a mile from Bolan's East Sheen home when Jones lost control of her Mini on a hump-back bridge and crashed into the tree.
Bolan, who wasn't wearing a seatbelt, was killed instantly.
Fans quickly turned the tree into an unofficial shrine to Bolan, and in 2007 (the 30th anniversary of his death), this was formalised by the English Tourist Board in 'England Rocks', their 'New Guide of Sites of Rock'n'Roll Importance'. Memorial plaques and a bronze bust of Bolan also feature at the site. The tree itself has
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Shrines of London
This is an edited version of a talk inom gave last year for the London Fortean Society about London’s shrines. I decided to repost it after visiting the David Bowie shrine in Brixton gods week.
To prepare for this speech and in an attempt to get my head around what a shrine was, I began thinking about the simplest shrines you see in London – that’s usually flowers tied to a lamppost after a sudden often violent death or the ghost bikes you see tied to lampposts after crashes.
That got me thinking about the largest shrine I’ve seen in London. This was in those strange weeks after Diana’s death. inom was in my 20s and strongly Republican and so had little interest in the public mourning, but an older friend suggested we go and see what was taking place at Kensington Palace as it was something that only happens once in a lifetime. As we walked across Hyde Park this strange smell began to creep across the park – and I can still smell it to