Marc Bolan replacing Took with Mickey Finn, he let the electric influences come forward even further on "A Beard of Stars", the final album to be credited to Tyrannosaurus Rex. It closed with the song "Elemental Child", featuring a long electric guitar break influenced by Jimi Hendrix. Bolan married his girlfriend, June Ellen Child, on 30 January 1970. She was a former secretary to the manager of another of his heroes, Syd Barrett, and June was influential in raising her new husband's profile in the music industry. Becoming more adventurous musically, Marc bought a modified vintage Gibson Les Paul guitar (featured on
Marc Bolan Flying V with vibrato and an early 1960s model Olympic White Fender Stratocaster decorated with a paisley-patterned teardrop shape, which had been his main guitar in the immediate aftermath of his resumption of use of electric instrumentation in 1969 and until the purchase of the Les Paul circa August 1970. The Stratocaster was eventually destroyed onstage during the 1974 United States tour after becoming irreparably faulty. One with both an eye and ear for the unusual, Bolan also played various models of visually striking guitars from smaller independent companies, among them a Veleno aluminium guitar, and the Burns Flyte. For