Funds needed for school for orphans in memory of Marc Bolan
Marc Bolan's former girlfriend has appealed for funds to help run a school for orphans in Africa in the memory of the glam rocker.
The T-Rex star's former partner, singer Gloria Jones and their son, Rolan Bolan have founded the Marc Bolan School of Music and Film in Makeni, Sierra Leone and want to enrol 100 students to the facility.
She tells Britain's Independent newspaper: "We currently need assistance to build more classrooms in Makeni."
Jed Dmochowski, the frontman of a Bolan tribute band, is helping Jones with the school, and adds: "The children are getting to know more of Marc's music and will be playing his songs. But Gloria really wants them to be inspired by Marc's energy and vision and to develop their natural talent.
"The poverty is extreme and unless the children develop a sense of self they are vulnerable to people offering them guns and money to lure them in a different direction."
Bolan was tragically killed in a car crash in London in 1977, only days before his 30th birthday.
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