Artist: TYRANNOSAURUS REX
Album: A BEARD OF STARS VINYL (2LP)

Release date: 1970/ 2014
Media type: LP

A Beard of Stars is the fourth studio album by Tyrannosaurus Rex, comprising Marc Bolan (vocals, guitar, organ, bass) and the first with new partner Mickey Finn (percussion). It is notable for being the first album on which Bolan used electric guitars (although these had first appeared on the 1969 single King of the Rumbling Spires/Do You Remember.)

Four tracks from this album, including Great Horse were salvaged from Spring 1969 sessions for a fourth album with original percussionist Steve Peregrin Took in the wake of King of the Rumbling Spires. These four tracks were overdubbed for release by Finn, Bolan and Visconti. A further four tracks from the Took sessions – rejected for the final album – would subsequently surface on various compilations – three (Once Upon The Seas of Abysinnia, Blessed Wild Apple Girl, Demon Queen) in Bolan's lifetime, the fourth (Ill Starred Man) posthumously. Other songs recorded around this time may include (Do You Remember) and (Find A Little Wood).

Side 1:
    1.     "Prelude"
    2.     "A Daye Laye"
    3.     "Woodland Bop"
    4.     "Fist Heart Mighty Dawn Dart"
    5.     "Pavilions Of Sun"
    6.     "Organ Blues"
    7.     "By The Light Of The Magical Moon"
    8.     "Wind Cheetah"

Side 2:
    1.     "A Beard Of Stars"
    2.     "Great Horse"
    3.     "Dragon's Ear"
    4.     "Lofty Skies"
    5.     "Dove"
    6.     "Elemental Child"

Side 3:
    1.     "Prelude" (take 1)
    2.     "Fist Heart Mighty Dawn Dart" (take 1)
    3.     "A Day Laye" (take 1)
    4.     "Organ Blues" (take 2)
    5.     "Black Cat Sittin' On My Shoulder" (take 2)
    6.     "Pavilions Of Sun"
    7.     "By The Light Of A Magical Moon"
    8.     "Find A Little Wood"

Side 4:
    1.     "Great Horse"
    2.     "Wind Cheetah"
    3.     "Pavilions Of Sun" (take 2)
    4.     "Oh Baby"
    5.     "A Beard Of Stars" (take 1)
    6.     "Dove" (take 5)
    7.     "Elemental Child" (part 1 - take 1)