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John's Children were a 1960s pop art/mod rock band from Leatherhead, England that briefly featured future T. Rex frontman Marc Bolan. John's Children were known for their outrageous live performances and were booted off a tour with The Who in Germany in 1967 when they upstaged the headliners. Their 1967 single "Desdemona", a Bolan composition, was banned by the BBC because of the controversial lyric, "Lift up your skirt and fly" … (read more at Wikipedia)

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Peel first became aware of Marc Bolan as a member of John's Children, who created interest in 1967 with singles for Track Records, notably the Bolan song "Desdemona", which was banned by some radio stations because of its "obscene" lyrics ("lift up your skirt and fly"). Bolan's familiar "bleating" voice can be heard on the track, but although he wrote much of the group's material he was not its lead singer.

JP played material by the group on the Perfumed Garden, commenting on one show that he had been impressed by John's Children's performance at the 14 Hour Technicolor Dream, but despite the notoriety they achieved in the pop press, the band did not achieve any major commercial success. Bolan left John's Children after only four months with them to form Tyrannosaurus Rex. However, Peel retained enough liking for the band to revisit some of their records in later decades.

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