Single:
Get it On (Bang a Gong) entered the Australian singles chart* on 23 August 1971 and peaked at #14. It was the #91 song on the Top 100 of 1971.
Album:
The song is on Electric Warrior which entered the Australian albums chart* on 15 November 1971 and peaked at #15.
Songwriter:
Marc Bolan
Producer:
Tony Visconti
Record label of Australian release:
Parlophone
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
Following the success of T.Rex’s single Hot Love, the band went on a United States tour. While in New York in March 1971, Bolan asked drummer Bill Legend to help him brainstorm drum patterns for a song idea that would later become Get It On.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_It_On_(T._Rex_song)
Songfacts:
Written by T.Rex lead singer Marc Bolan, this song is all about sex, but with imagery so comically vague it would be hard for even the most prudish listeners to take offense. Bolan’s delivery is feral, and he does keep calling the girl “dirty and sweet,” but you really have to stretch to find sexual connotations in a “hubcap diamond star halo” or a “cloak full of eagles.” The biggest suggestion is in the title.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/t-rex/bang-a-gong-get-it-on
Lyrics:
Well, you′re dirty and sweet
Clad in black, don’t look back and I love you
You′re dirty and sweet, oh yeah
Well, you’re slim and weak
You’ve got the teeth of the hydra upon you
You′re dirty sweet and you′re my girl
Get it on, bang a gong, get it on
Get it on, bang a gong, get it on
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