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Electric Warrior is the sixth album by British rock group T. Rex (being the second album under that name with the first four billed as by Tyrannosaurus Rex). Electric Warrior reached number thirty-two in the US Billboard 200; it went to number one for several weeks in the UK Albums Chart, becoming the biggest selling album there in 1971. In 2003, it was ranked number 160 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The album contained two of T. Rex's most popular songs, "Get It On" and "Jeepster." In the United States, "Get It On"'s title was modified to "Bang a Gong (Get It On)" to distinguish it from Chase's song "Get It On", which was also released in late 1971. (The printing of the song title "Bang a Gong (Get It On)" on the back cover of original Reprise Records U.S. copies of Electric Warrior is obviously in a different typefont from the surrounding text, with the song's original title retained when printing the lyrics.) "Get It On" was T. Rex's biggest selling single and their only US hit reaching number 10 in the Billboard Hot 100. Bolan, in a 1971 interview contained on the Rhino Records reissue, said of the album "I think Electric Warrior, fo…
