Metal Guru Madness

The famous Belgian surrealist painter Rene Magritte painted this picture in 1968. It’s called simply ‘16th September - Moon and Tree’.

The odd thing is that in 1977 the king of glam rock Marc Bolan died when the car he was travelling in crashed into a tree – on 16th September. The phase of the moon and time shown in the painting – shortly before dawn – are also the same as at the fateful crash.

Strangely, Marc died because he was in the passenger seat of the car (the driver was his girlfriend Gloria Jones of Tainted Love fame) and he took the full force of the collision. He was the passenger because, despite his famous love of cars (many of his songs mention cars – especially Cadillacs and he owned a Rolls Royce), he had never learned to drive.

It is also almost certain that Marc had viewed the painting in The Louvre as he visited the gallery on a previous tour of France...

It’s all just too spooky for me so let’s just listen to Telegram Sam instead. And remember – Rock On.


Crisp Debris