Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow [SEP] record label
Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow
Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow (subtitled A Creamed Cage in August) is the ninth studio album by Marc Bolan & T. Rex, released in the UK on 1 February 1974 on the T.Rex label, distributed by EMI.
Background and recording.
Marc Bolan was one of the first British artists to record at Musicland Studios in Munich; most basic recordings were done here during the second half of 1973. The UK album was another success for Bolan and reached
no 12 on the album charts.
His US label Reprise had dropped him and he was struggling to find another US label to sign him in the US. When he finally got a deal with Casablanca Records he had recorded lots of new material and decided to release it along with a couple of tracks from "Zinc Alloy" as the "Light of Love" album. Thus neither "Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow" nor "Bolan's Zip Gun" were issued in the US in the '70s