Electric Warrior the UK and Reprise in the US. "Electric Warrior" reached number 32 in the US "Billboard" 200 chart and went to number 1 on the UK Albums Chart, staying there for several weeks and becoming the best-selling album in the UK in 1971. It was preceded by the single "Hot Love", a million-selling single in the UK, where it stayed at number 1 for six weeks. Two singles were released from the album: "Get It On" and "Jeepster". "Get It On" was T. Rex's biggest selling single, and became the band's only top-ten US hit. In the United States, "Get
Electric Warrior myself just how good records can be. [...] I have a duty to at least try and make something as sweet and irresistible as this". The song "Jeepster" is featured in a bar scene in Quentin Tarantino's "Death Proof" (2007). In the opening scene of the film "Billy Elliot" (2000), the title character is shown putting "Electric Warrior" on a turntable and skipping to the song "Cosmic Dancer". "Cosmic Dancer" was also included in the soundtrack for the film "Velvet Goldmine" (1998). Bolan, in a 1971 interview contained on the Rhino Records reissue, said of the album "I think "Electric