Marc Bolan's Rock Shrine 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 car and it struck
Hit the Road Jack Charles's sixth number-one on that chart. The song is ranked number 387 on "Rolling Stone" magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". In 1976, Canadian band The Stampeders released a version of the song featuring DJ Wolfman Jack. The song reached number 6 in Canada and the top 40 in the US. Hit the Road Jack "Hit the Road Jack" is a song written by the rhythm and blues artist Percy Mayfield and first recorded in 1960 as an "a cappella" demo sent to Art Rupe. It became famous after it was recorded by the singer-songwriter-pianist Ray