Bolan's Zip Gun is the tenth studio album by English rock band T. Rex, released in February 1975 by record label EMI.

[1] The critical and commercial failure of the ambitious Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow in early 1974 rattled Bolan, who suddenly became uncertain as to what would please the public.

Guitarist Jack Green and singer Pat Hall, who had filled out the band's live lineup in 1973, were dismissed from the group and in July 1974, Dino Dines was added as a second keyboardist.

[2] That same month, the new lineup's single "Light of Love" could only manage to reach number 22 on the UK charts, T. Rex's worst placing yet, as the press began to savage him as a portly has-been.

With cover artwork credited to John Kosh, Bolan’s Zip Gun was released on February 14, 1975 on the T. Rex label (distributed by EMI).

[1] In 1994, Edsel Records's released Bolan’s Zip Gun as part of their extensive T. Rex reissue campaign, but cut down on the number of bonus tracks.

[4] In the UK, Kate Phillips of NME complained it was "a far cry from the pure voices and guitars of the old Rex days...it might drive you mad, but after six or seven minutes you don't really notice whether it's playing or not".

However, reviewer Stephen M. Deusner noted that the alternate takes on the second disc of the 2014 reissue were "rougher and rawer" and "vastly improve on these songs, bringing out a charmingly stiff boogie piano on "Precious Star" and the popping bass line on "Light of Love".

However, reviewer Whitney Strub praised a few tracks saying, ""Light of Love" opens things on a glam-funk note, and "Precious Star" offers irresistibly creamy doo-wop.