2 Magical & Unexpected Ways Glam Rock Helped Me Stay Alive
Music reflects your core essence
Music is a bridge to our Souls. The tunes, melody, beat, rhythm, and the instruments are like honey for the bees. Honey is the bees’ way of preserving their food so that they have something to eat when there aren’t many flowers in bloom.
Music is our way of preserving the feelings, experiences, satisfaction, hope, good memories and joy that the tunes evoke.
In the beginning was Light and Sound simultaneously. Vibration and movement creates sound, whether there’s someone around to hear it or not.
From the music of the spheres or the symphony of movements of celestial bodies to the hum and tune that the cells of your body emit, sound is the fabric of life.
Sound and music can empower and nourish us. Music shows us our inner nature and the expression in our Souls at the time we choose a piece of music to listen to.
Fox On The Run
The Sweet personified the glam rock era of the 70s in the U.K. Outstanding in their glitter and glam outfits, the band made a significant influence in rock music.
“Fox on the Run” is a 1975 song by Sweet, first recorded in 1974. It was the first Sweet single written by the band, rather than by producers Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, and was their 14th single overall. The song became the best charting single in Australia in 1975, with six weeks at number one.
In 1975 I turned twelve years old and started my first year at Secondary School or High School in Australia the year after. Although I was withdrawn and quiet, due to traumatic events in my adoption experience, I was a true “jiver” at heart.
While I made myself invisible to people, to protect myself from getting hurt, there was a whole Universe in my imagination.
As a teenager full of energy and aspiration to get to where I wanted to go, it was the Sweet that kept me going. I could listen for an hour most days to “Fox on the Run” with its racy, upbeat, bright tune, and its catchy chorus.
When I listened, I felt like I was the fox on the run and I was incredibly energized and happy.
Even though I was at home listening, I could always imagine myself in a whirlpool of glittering lights, surrounded by people full of love, and being full of joy.
And yes, of course, in my imagination I would be shouting out “You scream and everybody comes a running….Red fox on the ruuuuun.”
Music, whether it be the shout-it-to-the-rooftops tune of “Red fox on the ruuuuun” or anything else that lights you up, is a way of connecting a person to his or her Soul.
The lyrics and the riffs of “Red Fox on the Run” were the perfect blend of high enthusiasm, unbridled joy, energy, excitement, promise, defiance, and daring that was my Soul song.
Against the backdrop of a life of fear, due to my childhood situation, the Sweet’s song invigorated me. It made me feel that I was somebody. It was magical because it completely filled the void of my physically joining in a high energy dance and shout.
I have the most fantastic imagination and could teleport myself into the dance or social scene of my dreams. And whenever I listened to the Sweet, it may as well have been reality that I, dressed in my gold and black dress, was the belle of the ball or the scene.
Sweet’s glam rock song “Fox on the Run” had and has the power to instantly let me immerse myself totally in the joy and freedom of being alive. And this magic calms and comforts me and reminds me that everything is energy. Sound is energy.
Many different types of energy make up the fuel for the “work” or the growth and movements (actions and behavior) that we make or take. And the sound energy of the Sweet simply formed a bridge to where I am now, older but still with the same dreams of joy, love, and harmony.
In other words, although I missed out on a large part of “ordinary” childhood and early adult experiences, “Fox on the Run” was magical enough to serve as a replacement for the promise or potential of it. This foxy song kept me grounded enough in potential to keep me going.
Laser Love
There’s a lot more to life and the Cosmos than what many people think.
From energy comes matter and from matter comes form. And this ranges from very high frequency energy or etheric energy to very dense energy or visible physical bodies and forms.
Spirit guides are ethereal or fine invisible energy that was once contained within a form, whether that be a person or an animal.
“Children of the Revolution” by T-Rex, headed by Marc Bolan, was one of my favorite songs. Marc Bolan was an English guitarist, singer-songwriter and poet. He was a pioneer of the glam rock movement in the early 1970s with his band T. Rex.
Fast forward to around 1996 when I was 33 years old. I travelled through space-time to a Marc Bolan concert.
I was born with a heart murmur and I always wondered intuitively if it was related somehow to my spiritual self. For example, Louise Hays and others point out energy imbalances and/or trapped emotions may be catalysts for some illnesses.
Human beings have been gifted with form and free-will and with psychic senses too. My outstanding psychic abilities are clair-cognizance (or clear knowing) and clairaudience (or clear hearing).
“Laser Love” was released in 1976. And in 1977 Marc Bolan tragically died in a car accident, two weeks before his thirtieth birthday, which was two days after my thirteenth birthday.
I have very good hearing and have heard voices during telepathic experiences also. And then one night I was asleep and then I was transported or teleported to a concert.
I was consciousness hovering above the scene and with my “astral hearing” (or remote hearing) I could hear the music in loud full-stereo volume!
It was as real as you and me. Then I woke up and quickly wrote down some lines from the song that I heard. It was Marc Bolan’s “Laser Love”, a song which I hadn’t heard before, or at least couldn’t remember having heard it.
The song gave me a message, being “Your love is like a heart-attack.”
The lyrics of “Laser Love” explore themes of love, longing, and the cosmic connection between individuals.
“Your love is like a heart-attack” is a euphemism for a love that is so great that it is at risk of self-destructing, if not being the object of overwhelm in another.
Boy, was this a clear and resounding message for me at that time. I think that Marc Bolan was giving me a message “from the other side” that I was fixated upon helping everyone else, to my detriment.
Don’t give more love than you’ve got was the theme of this magical musical rendezvous!
I have thought that the physical heart murmur that I was born with has been partly a result of shouldering the grief and the sorrows of not only myself, but of others. As improbable as this may seem, the appearance of a song that I had never heard before, in full glory, supports this thought.
I began to look after myself more and in 2014 at the age of fifty, my aortic heart valve was successfully replaced with a mechanical valve. “Don’t worry if I don’t make it” I told my friends, “I’ve had a good innings in life.”
However, my friend whom I had known for over thirty years told me “But we would rather you be here.” And that laser love cheered and inspired me to keep going.
If someone respected and liked my presence then someone else did too, I thought. I have got all the reason in the world to keep living. But to spell it out, this reason is “as others support me, I genuinely support others in the web of life.”
This is not about conditional giving, but about the natural ebb or flow of giving and taking. I authentically give for all the blessings that life in its entirety gives me. I am not just a taker.
And so, the circle would keep turning. And my arrows of laser love, pointed at every sentient being on Earth and at Gaia or Mother Earth, would keep shooting.
If Marc Bolan could be a spirit guide, he had come to me on that fateful night, drawn to a Soul that was struggling with self-love, to pass on a warning message.
And because I tried to heed this after-life advice, “Look after yourself too or else,” I turned toward various healing modalities and systems to find what wisdom resonated with me.
Marc Bolan drew inspiration from Eastern spirituality, mysticism, and mythology, all arenas of human endeavour that appeal to me, to craft the lyrics of his song “Eastern Spell.”
While I didn’t get into psychedelics and I’ve met people who have been disappointed and dismayed that I could ever like glam rock music by Marc Bolan and the Sweet, I do not need to defend myself.
And this is because music is in our core essence. Our preference and attraction to music at any moment of any day is a reflection of our inner world.
And glam rock reflects the upbeat beautiful glam in me!
My story is about two unexpected ways in which music connected me and connects me to my true essence. Rock on love.
Other pieces of music that have helped me get through life are Ultravox”s “Vienna” (with Midge Ure), ABBA’s “Dancing Queen,” Sweet’s “Ballroom Blitz”, the Monkee’s “Day-Dream Believer,” and the folk song Mamas and the Papa’s “California Dreaming.”
The Take Away
Music shows us our inner nature and the expression in our Souls at the time we choose a piece of music to listen to.
Many of us have experienced music that has saved our sanity or our lives! Feel free to share one of your experiences, without unpleasant graphic detail, which could be upsetting.
Human response to music is as old as human history. Let’s appreciate that “music has charms to soothe the savage breast/to soften rocks or to bend a knotted oak”.
This is the first line from a play by William Congreve, called “The Mourning Bride” released in 1697.
In my case, music (the Sweet) softened the rocks of fear that I had of just living and was a placebo for being myself. And music (Marc Bolan) taught me to be flexible or to bend the knots that I had got myself into and look after myself more.
Music can often touch what we can’t verbally express and puts us closer to the emotions and memories we may have neglected through the years. It can lead us to epiphanies about our lifestyle or behavior or about our wishes and needs faster than more structured methods of self-realization.
Music touches people spiritually as well as emotionally and physically. It can help us live our best lives in surprising and magical ways!