Its origins are associated with Marc Bolan, who had renamed his folk duo T. Rex and taken up electric instruments by the end of the 1960s.

In 1965 Bolan turned up at Simon Napier-Bell's front door with his guitar and proclaimed that he was going to be a big star and he needed someone to make all of the arrangements.

A John's Children single written by Marc Bolan called " Desdemona " was banned by the BBC for its line " lift up your skirt and fly.

During 2000, TAG built steps up the muddy embankment between the ' Bolan Tree ' on Queen's Ride and the PRS Memorial facing Gipsy Lane and took the action needed to make the tree safe so that the threat of falling was removed.

In 1980, Pendleton sold his rights to the character to Gold Eagle who hired a number of ghostwriters to continue publishing Bolan monthly to keep up with reader demand worldwide.

The Second Afghan War began in 1878 and the regiment were employed in the vicinity of the Bolan Pass in 1879, until finally moving up to Kandahar in March 1880.

Katz was killed on a personal mission to stop a terrorist conspiracy in the Middle East, leading Mack Bolan to take up where he left off with support from Stony Man's top operatives and a top Mossad agent.

But by mid 1972 Marc Bolan had left Fly Records to set up his own label imprint and Essex / Fly producer Tony Visconti had also left with Bolan, setting up his own Good Earth Productions.

Eventually, Sebastian Bach was fired by the band in late 1996, following an argument with Rachel Bolan over a chance to open up for KISS.

* Marc Bolan ( singer, musician, born in Hackney )

1970s glam rock singer Marc Bolan and actor Ray Winstone were born in Hackney Hospital, on Homerton High Street.

There is, however, an existing plaque dedicated to Bolan at his childhood home, put there by Hackney Council.

The Sulaiman Mountains dominate the northeast corner and the Bolan Pass is a natural route into Afghanistan towards Kandahar.

* September 16 – Glam rock pioneer Marc Bolan dies in a car crash in Barnes, London.

The band was managed by Simon Napier-Bell who has also managed The Yardbirds, Marc Bolan, London and Wham !.

Staples, fresh from the London underground scene, had been gigging regularly at the legendary Middle Earth Club in London with Ginger Johnson's African Drummers, alongside, amongst others, Pink Floyd and Mark Bolan.

After one disastrous concert at the Electric Garden in London, Bolan and Took reduced the band down to a duo, busking 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.

Marc Bolan's Rock Shrine is the memorial to Marc Bolan where he died when the car in which he was a passenger hit a sycamore tree on Queen's Ride ( part of the B306 ) in Barnes, London on 16 September 1977.

But he is best known as manager, and at different times has managed artists as diverse as The Yardbirds, John's Children, Marc Bolan, Japan, London, Asia, Ultravox, Boney M, Sinitta, Wham !, Blue Mercedes, Alsou and Candi Staton.

Eater were an early British punk band from London who took their name from a Marc Bolan lyric.

* Marc Bolan relocated to Los Angeles in 1973 due to the UK's tax income staying there until relocating to London in mid-1976.

The first of the chiefs was Fearchar, Earl of Ross from the O ' Beolain ( Ó Beólláin, Boland, Bolan ) family, also known as ' Fearchar Mac-an-t-sagairt ' ( meaning " son of the priest ") of Applecross.

Gloria Jones gave birth to Bolan's son in September 1975, whom they named Rolan Bolan ( although his birth certificate lists him as ' Rolan Seymour Feld ').

Since then, Bongos frontman Richard Barone has recorded several other Bolan compositions (" The Visit ," " Ballrooms of Mars "), worked with T. Rex producer Tony Visconti for his current solo album, Glow ( 2010, Bar / None Records ) that includes a remake of Bolan's " Girl " from Electric Warrior, and has himself produced tracks for Bolan's son Rolan.

A memorial plaque was also included for Marc Bolan's wife June Bolan ( née Child ) as recognition for her contribution to his success.

Famous people whose cremations have taken place include Kingsley Amis, Stanley Baldwin, Marc Bolan ( born, Mark Feld ), Neville Chamberlain, T. S. Eliot, Sigmund Freud, Hugh Gaitskell, John Inman, Keith Moon, Ivor Novello, Anna Pavlova, Frank Rutter, Peter Sellers, Ghisha Tuckman ( born, Ghisha Koenig ) Amy Winehouse, Michael Foot and Wendy Richard.

Marc Bolan ( born, Mark Feld ), and Anthony Newley were both born here.

* Marc Bolan ( born, Mark Feld ), musician – lived on Stoke Newington Common until age 15.

Marc Bolan ( born Mark Feld ; 30 September 1947 – 16 September 1977 ) was an English singer-songwriter, guitarist and poet.

The shortcoming was underlined by his artistic rivalry with Marc Bolan, who was at the time acting as his session guitarist.

Mehrgarh is located near the Bolan Pass, to the west of the Indus River valley and between the now Pakistani cities of Quetta, Kalat and Sibi.

" According to Catherine Jarrige of the Centre for Archaeological Research Indus Baluchistan at the Musée Guimet in Paris: "… the Kachi plain and in the Bolan basin ( are ) situated at the Bolan peak pass, one of the main routes connecting southern Afghanistan, eastern Iran, the Balochistan hills and the Indus River valley.

Its western borders include the Khyber Pass and Bolan Pass that have served as traditional migration routes between Central Eurasia and South Asia.

Psychedelic music also contributed to the origins of glam rock, with Marc Bolan changing his psychedelic folk duo into rock band T. Rex and becoming the first glam rock star from 1970.

* 1947 – Marc Bolan, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and poet ( T. Rex and John's Children ) ( d. 1977 )

He also wore costumes and openly proclaimed his influences: David Bowie, Marc Bolan, and contemporary electronic acts such as John Foxx's Ultravox.

Darius then marched through Bolan Pass and returned through Arachosia and Drangiana back to Persia.

Marr's other favourite guitarists are James Williamson of The Stooges, Pete Townshend of The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Marc Bolan, Keith Richards and John McGeoch of Magazine and Siouxsie and the Banshees.

The Gliderdrome was famous in the 1960s for attracting top Motown acts as well as various other artists including, in the 1970s, Elton John and Marc Bolan & T. Rex and in the early 1980s " Yam Hologram ".

Marc Bolan & T. Rex recorded a live album at the Gliderdrome named ' Live at the Boston Gliderdrome ' in 1972 which was released on CD in 2001.

The city lies on the Bolan Pass route which was once the only gateway to and from South Asia.

Since 2008 railway service has come under attack by the Balochs, especially in the Bolan Pass area resulting in a bomb blast on the railway tracks and firing on trains.

The city is home to the University of Balochistan established in 1974, Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences, ( BUITAMS ) Sardar Bahadur Khan Women's University, Bolan Medical College, Agricultural institute, the Geological Survey of Pakistan, the Sandeman Library and many government and private colleges.

Pir Ghaib is a waterfall and picnic spot located 70 km from the Quetta City in hisotric Bolan valley.

The memorial receives frequent visits from his fans, and in 2002 a bronze bust of Bolan was installed to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death.