Marc Bolan took some time to reassess his situation after John's Children, his band  which was known for their outrageous live performances, disbanded, and thereafter had new ideas that enabled him to write different literary works.
Napier-Bell managed The Yardbirds and John's Children and was at first going to slot Bolan into the Yardbirds. In early 1967 he eventually settled instead for John's Children because they needed a songwriter and he admired Bolan's writing ability. When the band split following an ill-fated German gig with The Who, Bolan took some time to reassess his situation. Bolan's imagination was filled with new ideas and he began to write fantasy novels (The Krakenmist and Pictures Of Purple People) as well as poems and songs, sometimes finding it hard to separate facts from his own elaborate myth  he famously claimed to have spent time with a wizard in Paris who gave him secret knowledge and could levitate. In 1969, Bolan published his first and only book of poetry entitled The Warlock of Love. John's Children were known for their outrageous live performances and were booted off a tour with The Who in Germany in 1967 when they upstaged the headliners. 
