Hen" was a nod to black soul music, a style that Bolan had always wanted to explore: Kulkarni wrote that this was two years before David Bowie "tried the same move on Young Americans". Legacy AllMusic wrote that it presaged David Bowie's soul music phase: "It was admirable that Bolan was attempting to broaden the T. Rex sound -- soulful backup singers and horns are heard throughout, a full two years before David Bowie used the same formula for his mega-seller Young Americans". Tanx inspired Suede for their Coming Up album as producer Ed Buller related: "The blueprint was Tanx by T.Rex – I actually thought The Slider was a better choice, but Brett (Anderson) always had a different take on things. I always looked at The Slider as being the ultimate T.Rex album, but he’s right, Tanx is actually a better record, because it’s more interesting. Basically, what we did, is that every track started with acoustic guitar, bongos, tambourine and Brett, so it all started life pretty much the same way that Marc Bolan recorded all of his stuff originally. He started with an acoustic guitar song and then he’d build it up with guitar and drums and electronics. So the foundation of the songs on Coming Up, is a groove made-up out of congas, tambourine and acoustic guitar." In 2003, Martin Gore from Depeche Mode recorded in solo two covers from Tanx as extra-tracks of his single "Stardust": "Left Hand Luke and the Beggar Boys", and "Life is Strange". The song "Life is Strange" was the soundtrack of several scenes of the film Dallas Buyers Club in 2013 in which one of the main characters, Rayon, a Marc Bolan fan played by Jared Leto, lived surrounded with pictures of his idol. Track listing Personnel T.Rex Marc Bolan – vocals, guitar Mickey Finn – conga, hand percussion, vocals Steve Currie – bass Bill Legend – drums with: Flo & Eddie – backing vocals Tony Visconti – mellotron, string arrangements, backing vocals, recorder, producer Howard Casey – saxophone Technical John Kosh - cover design Peter Howe - front cover photography Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts References External links 1973 albums T. Rex (band) albums Albums arranged by Tony Visconti Albums produced by Tony Visconti EMI Records albums