T. Rex – I Love To Boogie

May 1976 session, EMI single, two minutes of late Bolan boogie

In May 1976 at Decibel Studios in London, Marc Bolan cut I Love To Boogie with Steve Currie on bass, Davey Lutton on drums, and Dino Dines on piano. Bolan produced the track himself. EMI issued it as a single on 11 June 1976 (catalogue MARC 14), with Baby Boomerang from The Slider on the B-side. The A-side runs barely past two minutes: piano stabs, a bright guitar figure, and Bolan’s vocal riding a straight rock-and-roll pulse.

The song later appeared on T. Rex’s final studio album, Dandy in the Underworld (March 1977). On the UK Singles Chart it spent nine weeks and peaked at number 13, a late hit after years when Bolan’s commercial peak had already passed. The writing sat close to classic boogie shapes; a legal dispute over similarity to Webb Pierce’s Teenage Boogie ended with the riff treated as public-domain common stock rather than a stolen melody.

What you hear first is the piano and guitar stating the figure together, then Bolan singing the title like a chant. The arrangement stays lean. No long solo section, no soft middle eight designed for radio polish. It is built to move a room quickly, the kind of short single that fits between heavier glam cuts without asking for patience.