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

That same year, Bolan returned to the UK from tax exile in the U. S. and Monaco and to the public eye with a low-key tour.

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.

Pendleton wrote what was published as # 17, Jersey Guns, as his own sequel to # 15, Panic in Philly under a new contract with New American Library, which was ultimately voided by the terms of his settlement with Pinnacle, and he returned to the Bolan character for twenty-one more novels.

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 ".

Bolan took to wearing top hats and feather boas on stage as well as putting drops of glitter on each of his cheekbones.

In 1972, Bolan achieved two more British number ones with " Telegram Sam " and " Metal Guru " ( the latter of which stopped Elton John getting to the top with " Rocket Man ") and two more number twos in " Children Of The Revolution " and " Solid Gold Easy Action ".

In every decade since his death, a Bolan greatest hits compilation has placed in the top 20 UK albums and periodic boosts in sales have come via cover versions from artists inspired by Bolan, including Morrissey and Siouxsie and the Banshees.

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.

In early 1977, Bolan got a new band together, released a new album, Dandy in the Underworld, and set out on a fresh UK tour, taking along punk band The Damned as support to entice a young audience who did not remember his heyday.

In 1985, Duran Duran splinter band Power Station, with Robert Palmer as vocalist, took a version of " Get It On " into the UK Top 40 and to US # 6, the first cover of a Bolan song to enter the charts since his death.

Key Underground ( community ) bands of the time who often performed at benefit gigs for various worthy causes included Pink Floyd ( when they still had Syd Barrett ), Soft Machine, Hawkwind, The Deviants ( featuring Mick Farren ), and Pink Fairies ; other key people included, in the late ' 60s, Marc Bolan, who would leave " the Grove " to find fame with T Rex and his partner Steve Peregrin Took, who remained in Ladbroke Grove and continued to perform benefit gigs in the anti-commercial ethos of the UK underground.

* Born to Boogie: a site dedicated to Marc Bolan and T. Rex in the Ringo Starr-produced film and its redux release in 2005

The show was in production when Bolan was killed in a car accident in 1977.

Hunt met Marc Bolan in 1969 when she went to the studio where Bolan's group was recording " Unicorn ".

Tony Visconti said that when Bolan and Hunt met, " ou could see the shafts of light pouring out of their eyes into each other .... We finished the session unusually early, and Marc and Marsha walked out into the night hand in hand.

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.

Marc Bolan died, aged 29, from injuries sustained when his purple Mini, driven by his girlfriend Gloria Jones, crashed into a sycamore.

It was the year 1857 when the idea was suggested by William Andrew ( Chairman of Scinde, Punjab and Delhi Railway ) that the railways to the Bolan Pass would have strategic role in responding to any threat by Russia.

Published at a time when male characters such as Nick Carter-Killmaster and Mack Bolan dominated the paperback spy genre, The Baroness series distinguished itself by featuring an equally lethal and promiscuous female character.

Known as ' Katz ' to his friends, Col. Yakov Katzenelenbogen was the original Phoenix Force leader when Bolan first assembled the team.

Keio Ohara was the youngest member of Phoenix Force when Mack Bolan first assembled the team.

That all changed when Mack Bolan saved his life during his mission against Julian DiGeorge.

* Don Pendleton's Mack Bolan, when reminded that the " meek shall inherit the earth ", replied, " Only after the violent have tamed it.

In 1973, Bolan played twin lead guitar alongside his friend Jeff Lynne on the Electric Light Orchestra songs " Ma-Ma-Ma Belle " and " Dreaming of 4000 " ( originally uncredited ) from On the Third Day, as well as on " Everyone's Born To Die ", which was not released at the time but appears as a bonus track on the 2006 remaster.

Marc Bolan and T. Rex revived the term in their songs I Love To Boogie ( 1977 ) and Jitterbug Love ( 1973 )

He is celebrated in the 1997 Cornershop song " Brimful of Asha " with the line: " Jacques Dutronc and the Bolan Boogie / The Heavy Hitters and the Chichi music.

After the KGB attempt to destroy Stony Man and the death of April Rose, Bolan left the organization to resume his solo war against evil ... this time adding the KGB to his hit list.

Jeff Beck, Duff McKagan, Jack Rose, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Cub Koda, Marc Bolan, Neil Young and Bob Dylan have all cited Wray as an influence ; Dylan's song " Sign Language ", which he sang with Eric Clapton on Clapton's No Reason to Cry album, mentions Link Wray.

The battle honour of ' Afghanistan 1839 ' was awarded to all units of the presidency armies of the East India Company that had proceeded beyond the Bolan Pass, by Gazette of the Governor-General, dated 19 November 1839, the spelling changed from ' Afghanistan ' to ' Affghanistan ' by Gazette of India No. 1079 of 1916, and the date added in 1914.

No longer under the band name Frehley's Comet the album features guest performances by former Kiss drummer Peter Criss, as well as Skid Row members Sebastian Bach, Rachel Bolan and Dave Sabo.

No one has ever claimed Bolan does not like women.

" Bolan replied, " No, I like them alive.

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.

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

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 )

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.