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
Paris–Madrid race car hit it and overturned, killing his mechanic. Georges Richard hit a tree in Angoulême, trying to avoid a farmer standing in the middle of the road, and news came that in Châtellerault Tourand's Brunhot had hit spectators while avoiding a child who crossed the road. A soldier named Dupuy intervened and saved the child, but was killed and the car lost control, killing a spectator. Further south, another car left the road and went into a group of spectators. Two people were said to be killed in the crowd. E.T. Stead, (Phil Stead) in the massive De Dietrich, lost