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 poetic and neo-romantic songs that would appear on his first albums with T. Rex. When John's Children collapsed, among other problems, the band's equipment had been repossessed by their label Track Records. But Bolan, unperturbed, rallied to create Tyrannosaurus Rex, his own rock band together with guitarist Ben Cartland, drummer Steve Peregrin Took and an unknown bass player. Napier-Bell recalled of Bolan: "He got a gig at the Electric Garden then put an ad in "Melody Maker" to get the musicians. The paper came out on Wednesday, the day of the gig. At three o'clock he was interviewing musicians, at