Steve often mentions the day he was telephoned in his Los Angeles hotel room at around 9am by his then American manager, the late Ed Leffler, who broke the news of Marc Bolan's death. Ed had been called by the Managing Director of EMI, the late Bob Mercer, who Steve always considered a freind. He didn't want to break the terrible news to Steve himself from so far away, and with so many other calls to make. Steve and his assistant boarded the first available flight out, cancelling recording dates, and flew home via Boston. They had a two hour stop-over. Steve remembers getting to a phone at Boston airport and calling a mutual friend in the UK to hear details.
