Marc Bolan was born on this day in 1947. Here’s T. Rex performing “Mambo Sun” on German television in 1972. As some of you may recall, this song became a hit for the new wave group The Bongos a decade later.
Ed Kilgore, a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly, is a columnist for New York.
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