00:00Mark Boland's Blue Plaque was unveiled at 31 Clarendon Gardens in Maida Vale. The address
00:11where Boland lived with his wife June from 1970, which is when his career soared with hits including
00:19Ride a White Swan and Get It On. BBC Radio 3 presenter and English Heritage Blue Plaques
00:27panel member. Petrock Trelawney said Mark Boland was not just a hitmaker, he was a visionary who led a
00:36glitter-drenched revolution that transformed the sound and style of the 70s. He added that the plaque
00:45in Maida Vale marks the building he called home at the peak of his artistry. From here he captured
00:53the imagination of a generation. Boland, who lived in London all his life, left the first-floor London
01:01flat in 1972 because of unrelenting attention from fans, according to English Heritage.
01:08I mean, I knew him before when he was in the early days, when it was a little duo, folk duo called
01:15Tyrannosaurus Rex initially. Then he became T-Rex and then it became Mark on his own. So he really,
01:23learned his craft and knew what he wanted to do. And I, and somebody like that will live for long
01:30after I've gone. In fact, long after everybody's gone because he really, he left a style and music.
01:40So if anybody deserves a blue plaque round here, it's smart. Between November 1970 and June 1973,
01:47group T-Rex had 11 top 10 hit singles. Boland joins other notable musicians commemorated by the blue plaques
01:56scheme from Freddie Mercury to Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon. The track I'm Dazed has been mixed from
02:04master tapes by musician Stephen Wilson and comes backed with an unearthed studio take of Billy Super
02:13duper. The London blue plaques scheme now run by English heritage started in 1866 and is forced to be
02:23the oldest of its kind in the world.
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