Hot Love (T.Rex song)

Infobox Single
Name =Hot Love


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Artist =T.Rex
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B-side ="King of the Mountain Cometh" + "Woodland Rock"
Released =1971
Format =7"
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Genre = Glam rock
Length =4:59 min
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Writer =Marc Bolan
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Last single ="Ride a White Swan"
(1970)
This single ="Hot Love"
(1971)
Next single ="Get It On"
(1971)
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Type = single
filename = T._Rex_-_Hot_Love.ogg
format = Ogg
title = Hot Love (excerpt)
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description ="Hot Love" is a UK number one song by the British rock band T.Rex, released in 1971.

It was the group's first UK number one, staying at the top for six weeks from March 1971; it fared less well in the USA, where it peaked at #72. The song reached #47 in Canada in June 1971. It was also the first T. Rex single to feature both a bass guitar and drums. Its success was propelled by a legendary "Top of the Pops" appearance, where mainman Marc Bolan appeared in androgynous clothes and covered in glitter, thus inventing the style that came to be known as glam rock.

It is a twelve-bar record with fuzzy guitars, repetitive lyrics (eg. "She ain't no witch and I love the way she twitch") and the "Hey Jude"-esque refrain ("la la la la la la la").

Covers

The Fratellis' song "Ooh La Hot Love" is a combination of Goldfrapp's "Ooh La La" and "Hot Love" and was also performed on the Live Lounge segment of The Jo Whiley Show on BBC Radio 1. The band often plays the song as an encore, and a live version is the b-side to "Baby Fratelli". In 2004, Justus Köhncke created a schaffel track from "Hot Love" and Freiland's "Frei" for "Kompakt 100".