lling a face to see where he might have gotten wrinkles, and sort of bullshit the rest. I also studied pictures of how the surviving glam rockers and Marc's contemporaries started looking after thirty years.

In case you were wondering, he's not wearing a tie, it's one of those white riding scarves like they used to wear driving in Victorian times. I guess this is the version of Marc that eats and fills out over time. Martyn thinks that he would have done just the opposite and gotten really skinny. I'm not so sure about that, but maybe I will try that alternate version out another time. Either one raises a lot of questions--what would his music sound like?

Would he have been in any more movies? Would he have fought David Bowie for the role of Jareth in The Labyrinth? Would he have won?
It's weird to think about, isn't it?"

Yes I think it is! Thanks for your work Bailey! Terrific :-)

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WHAT MARC MIGHT HAVE LOOKED LIKE NOW

These two illustrations were done by Bailey Quillin, a 22 year-old American artist whom I found while looking around the site upon which our daughter uploads her Degree Course Artwork and thought you'd be interested to see them too, though of course how accurate her illustrations are (to you) depends on how you think Marc would look like aged 61. You can see the artist middle right with her really lovely painting of Marc. Here is what she says about the first sketch:-

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Artist's Comments
"Just a doodle that Martyn kept yelling at me to do. I might try another one later...anyway, we were discussing what Marc Bolan might have looked like if he were still alive today. It's kind of a difficult task to take the only photos we have of him--when he was in his twenties, and use those as reference for a portrait of an imaginary 61 year old man that never was.

I just had to find a bunch of pictures where he is either smiling or pu" ALT="">