Single
Solid Gold Easy Action entered the Australian singles chart* on 5 February 1973 and peaked at #50.
Songwriter:
Marc Bolan
Producer:
Tony Visconti
Record label of Australian release:
T.Rex
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
Kerrang! magazine founder Geoff Barton, wrote in an article for Classic Rock magazine that the first two lines of the song, “Life is the same and it always will be / Easy as picking foxes from a tree”, appeared to predict Marc Bolan’s own death in 1977. The license plate of the car Bolan was in during the fatal collision with a tree was FOX 661L. This is one of many supposed ‘prophesies’ surrounding Marc Bolan’s death.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_Gold_Easy_Action
Lyrics:
Life is the same and it always will be
Easy as picking foxes from a tree
But I can′t get no satisfaction
All I want is easy action
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