Which T Rex hit was called 'Bang A Gong' when it was released in the USA?
Get It On (T. Rex song) Get It On (T. Rex song) "Get It On" is a song by the British glam rock group T. Rex, featured on their 1971 album "Electric Warrior". Written by frontman Marc Bolan, "Get It On" was the second chart-topper for T. Rex on the UK Singles Chart. In the United States, it was retitled "Bang a Gong (Get It On)" to avoid confusion with a song of the same name by the group Chase. Bolan claimed to have written the song out of his desire to record Chuck Berry's "Little Queenie", and said that the riff is taken from the
T. Rex (band) of the Rattling Spirits", the narrator starts remembering his childhood when he sees T. Rex record "King of Rumbling Spires" in the record store and realizes he has mistakenly remembered the title as "King of the Rattling Spirits". As Tyrannosaurus Rex As T. Rex T. Rex (band) T. Rex were an English rock band, formed in 1967 by singer-songwriter and guitarist Marc Bolan. The band was initially called Tyrannosaurus Rex, and released four psychedelic folk albums under this name. In 1969, Bolan began to shift from the band's early acoustic sound to an electric one. The following year, he shortened