Marc Bolan's Rock Shrine in their own right. Marc Bolan's Rock Shrine Marc Bolan's Rock Shrine is a memorial to Marc Bolan, of glam-rock band T-Rex, on the site where he died in a car crash in Barnes, London, on 16 September 1977. Bolan was a passenger in a car which hit a sycamore tree on Queen's Ride (part of the B306, close to Gipsy Lane). A memorial stone and bust of Bolan was unveiled at the site in 1997. Marc Bolan died, aged 29, from injuries sustained when his purple , driven by his girlfriend Gloria Jones, crashed. Jones lost control of the
Gloria Jones the age of 14, when, while still at school, she formed with Frankie Kahrl and Billy Preston the successful gospel group the Cogic Singers, with whom she recorded the album "It's a Blessing". Although she remained with the group for some four years, she soon found herself drawn into the Los Angeles pop scene. In 1964, Jones, in her late teens, was discovered by the songwriter Ed Cobb. Signing with Cobb's Greengrass Productions, she recorded her first hit record, "Heartbeat Pts 1 & 2," which Cobb wrote and produced. She toured the United States, performing on several American television programs,