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
Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow (subtitled A Creamed Cage in August) is the ninth studio album by Marc Bolan & T. Rex, released on 1 February 1974 on the T.Rex label, distributed by EMI. Marc Bolan was one of the first British artists to record at Musicland Studios in Munich; most basic recordings were done here during the second half of 1973. His US label Reprise had dropped him and he was struggling to find another US label to sign him in the US. When he finally got a