T-Rex legend Marc Bolan’s premonitions about his own tragic death

T-Rex musician Marc Bolan was only 29 when he was killed on September 16 1977.

The guitarist died instantly when the car he was in – driven by his girlfriend Gloria Jones – flew off the road and hit a tree.

Gloria and Marc – whose son Rolan was 20-months-old at the time – had been returning to their Richmond home after a night out in London’s Mayfair around 4am when their purple mini crashed.

And in the 1972 single he penned named ‘Solid Gold Easy Action’ in which he seemed to foreshadow his own death.

The opening line of the release begins: “Life is the same and it always will be / Easy as picking foxes from a tree.”

Marc’s choice to link a tree and speaking about life in one breath is eerily spooky when understanding how he died.

It also came to light after his demise that the license plate on the car that the hitmaker was killed in was ‘FOX 661L’ – making the idea of him penning about a tree and fox years prior to his passing even more unusual.

The talented musician never learnt to drive and had no plans to get a license – as he feared that he would die in car.

“He would never drive a car, he was always scared – Marc never had a driving licence, he refused to learn,” his former manager Tony Secunda told.

Marc also famously said he was “too beautiful to live and too young to die” – possibly suggesting he knew he would not live to old age.

According to BBC archives, Phillip Evans-Lowe was driving to work at a local dairy and witnessed the smash.

“When I arrived a girl was lying on the bonnet and a man with long dark curly hair was stretched out in the road – there was a hell of a mess, I rushed to get the police,” he said.

Intrigue still surrounds Marc’s sad death.

Wheel nuts on the Mini were loose, even though the car was serviced the day before.

Guitars and papers from his home went missing in an apparent break-in.

And at 9.30am, hours after the crash, the Inland Revenue turned up at his office demanding £4million in back tax.

Rumours persist that looters took updated wills from his home so that royalties flowed into a password-protected trust.