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 Callen Gloria Callen Gloria Callen (December 21, 1923 in Freeport, New York – September 2, 2016), was a backstroke swimmer from the United States. She was the 1942 Associated Press Athlete of the Year. "Glamorous" Gloria Marie Callen was born in 1923. She married Herbert Erskine Jones Jr. in 1944. Gloria Callen set 35 American records and one world record in swimming, and won 13 American championships. Due to World War II, she was never able to compete in world championships or Olympic Games, even though she qualified for the 1940 Olympic Games. She quit swimming when she went to college