#Steve peregrin took full

While in Tyrannosaurus Rex, Took also appeared as a backing vocalist on a session for David Bowie, the results of which can be heard on the BBC sessions album, Bowie at the Beeb.Įventually, Took donated two of his songs to former Tomorrow and The Pretty Things drummer Twink’s 1969 solo album, Think Pink Consequently, before the first Tyrannosaurus Rex tour of America, Bolan and his management sacked Took. Took worked with Syd Barrett on unreleased “Ramadan” tracks. Mick Farren, in his memoir Give The Anarchist A Cigarette, recalled that Took would “drag a bemused Syd Barrett along” to events in Ladbroke Grove in the late 1960s Took remained friends with Barrett well into the 1970s. In addition, Took’s friendship with Bolan’s idol Syd Barrett had also developed through their shared interests in both LSD and “strange musical noises”. The relationship was deteriorating badly-Bolan barely tolerated Took’s drug use, and Steve Mann recalled that it was clear they “cordially detested each other”. Bolan was living quietly with wife-to-be June Child, while Took was rapidly forging links with “revolutionary” underground acts, such as The Deviants and The Pretty Things. By this time, the life styles of Bolan and Took were in direct conflict. Took developed his own songwriting and in early 1969, with recording just complete on Tyrannosaurus Rex’s third LP, Unicorn, Took suggested to Bolan that the duo could perform some of his own material Bolan refused.

#Steve peregrin took full

Towards the end of his time in the band, as Bolan began returning to the electric guitar, Took returned to a full drum set and also contributed some bass guitar parts. Took’s arrangements contributed to transforming Bolan’s music from the straightforward rock ‘n roll it had previously been into an exotic brew of musical styles designed to appeal to Bolan’s new audience of hippies. Took contributed harmony backing vocals, which are more noticeable in live recordings than on studio recordings, and provided bongos, African drums, kazoo, pixiphone, and Chinese gong. The flower-power unit, championed by John Peel onto the club and stage circuit and thence into the record shops, released three albums and achieved two top 40 hits.

Bolan and Took, as Tyrannosaurus Rex, busked in subways on acoustic guitar and bongos, Took having been obliged to sell his full drum kit to pay the rent until paying gigs started to come in.