The best No 1 records: T Rex – Get It On

1971: At the start of a new decade, one record pointed to one possible future for pop music - one in which the past would be endlessly re-exhumedGet It On was as much a sign of the musical times as it was a blast from the past. With its crude rumbling riff – Marc Bolan claimed to have stolen it from Chuck Berry's Little Queenie – it harked back to late-50s rock'n'roll. As such it was an early example of postmodernist practice, or retromania, a moment of consolidation after the headlong rush ...

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