This post is uploaded tonight after hearing the sad news of the death of Malcolm McClaren from cancer earlier today. Text ripped off from telegraphonline.<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/KYPP908.jpg\")
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Malcolm McLaren, who has died aged 64, came to public attention in 1976 as the manager of the Sex Pistols, the punk band which he steered to fame and notoriety before their implosion barely two years later.<\/p>\n
Presenting himself as svengali and arch media manipulator, McLaren went on to create and promote other bands such as Bow Wow Wow, wrote an opera, appeared on television as a pundit on the phenomenon of punk, and considered running, in 2000, as a candidate for mayor of London.<\/p>\n
He once said: \u201cI am a product of the Sixties. All I have ever felt is disruptive \u2014 I don\u2019t know any other way.\u201d<\/p>\n
The son of a Scottish engineer, Malcolm McLaren was born on January 22 1946 in Stoke Newington, London. He was brought up by his maternal grandmother, Rose, who encouraged in him a subversive spirit. At school he developed a talent for manipulating his class-mates, on one occasion luring them to a rubbish tip and making them get into a large cardboard box he had saved in order that they could be his \u201cBox Gang\u201d.<\/p>\n
At 18 he went to Harrow Art School, where he lost his virginity to a talented designer five years his senior called Vivienne Westwood. He also met Jamie Reid, who would later create the Sex Pistols\u2019 provocative and influential graphics.<\/p>\n
In the late Sixties, McLaren drifted through several art colleges, immersing himself in the writings of the Situationist International (SI), the French provocateurs whose new media practices included manifestos, broadsheets, pranks and disinformation; and he loitered on the fringes of King Mob, an SI splinter group.<\/p>\n
For an unfinished film made while still at art college, he wrote a manifesto which would sum up the underpinnings of punk: \u201cBe childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 1971, with Vivienne Westwood (who by now had had a child by him), McLaren opened a boutique at 430 King\u2019s Road in Chelsea. At first called Let It Rock, and then Too Fast to Live Too Young to Die, the shop sold then-unfashionable 1950s Teddy Boy drapes and cr\u00eape-soled shoes to a new generation.<\/p>\n
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By 1974 the shop, now renamed Sex, and later Seditionaries, was selling Vivienne Westwood\u2019s proto-punk bondage gear and t-shirts printed with lettrist-inspired slogans. Run with the help of Jordan, a girl from the suburbs who favoured S&M gear, the shop was a hangout for a cast of young, bored and frustrated misfits, among them Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock.<\/p>\n
In 1975 McLaren went to New York, where he became obsessed by the New York Dolls, a glam-metal male band who performed live in high heels, Lurex tights and make-up, though in an aggressive style which would make them influential to punks. Led by the singer David JoHansen and guitarist Johnny Thunders, the Dolls were the toast of the city\u2019s underground scene, having just signed a record deal.<\/p>\n
McLaren soon talked his way into becoming the band\u2019s manager. His first move, the better to shock bourgeois Americans, was to put the Dolls into Maoist Red Guard outfits and have them play in front of a hammer and sickle flag; but New York was unimpressed by the band\u2019s new image and, disillusioned by the sudden downturn in their fortunes, Thunders and the drummer, Jerry Nolan, quit soon afterwards.<\/p>\n
Undeterred, McLaren returned to London, intent on creating a band in the way that the Fifties manager Larry Parnes had moulded such stars as Billy Fury and Marty Wilde. When Steve Jones pestered him to find a rehearsal room for his band, McLaren did so; and with the addition as lead singer of John Lydon, another denizen of Sex, rechristened Johnny Rotten for the state of his teeth, the Sex Pistols were born.<\/p>\n
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Controversy was always high on the band\u2019s agenda, and it was McLaren, primarily, who ensured they achieved it. In May 1977, during the week of the Queen\u2019s silver jubilee, McLaren booked a boat trip down the Thames where the band were to perform their single \u201cGod Save The Queen\u201d outside the Houses of Parliament. The boat was raided by police. McLaren was arrested.<\/p>\n
Whatever resentment the establishment had for him after this, it was soon to be magnified by the band themselves. The following year The Sex Pistols embarked on a tour of the US. They would return on separate flights. The band split up after a series of arguments, with members accusing McLaren of mismanaging them and withholding money.<\/p>\n
After the demise of the Sex Pistols, McLaren continued to put out unreleased material by the band, until the aptly-named Flogging A Dead Horse album of 1979. The band sued McLaren in 1986 for royalties, eventually receiving \u00a31 million in an out of court settlement.<\/p>\n
In 1979, McLaren was invited to provide a new image for the band Adam and the Ants. For a consultancy fee of \u00a31,000, he came up with a combination of American Indian and pirate garb, before suggesting to the band\u2019s guitarist and rhythm section that they abandon their singer, Adam Ant, and join a new group McLaren was forming called Bow Wow Wow.<\/p>\n
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With 14-year old Annabella Lwin on vocals, Bow Wow Wow released the single C30, C60, C90, Go (1980), a driving, Burundi-influenced paean to home taping composed by McLaren. This was followed by the cassette-only EP, Your Cassette Pet.<\/p>\n
Bow Wow Wow\u2019s powerful and innovative sound was eventually rewarded by Top 10 hits with Go Wild in the Country and I Want Candy; but after a number of publicity stunts, including a photograph of Annabella Lwin semi-nude with the band in an album-sleeve pastiche of Manet\u2019s D\u00e9jeuner sur l\u2019Herbe, the band folded in 1983.<\/p>\n
That year, McLaren made his own recording debut, Duck Rock, a collection of songs based on \u201cfield recordings\u201d made in Africa and incorporating New York\u2019s fast-growing hip-hop style, exemplified by rappers The World\u2019s Famous Supreme Team.<\/p>\n
Although he was accused of plagiarism at the time, McLaren\u2019s appropriation of musical styles from around the world would soon be much imitated. The album included the Top 10 hits Buffalo Gals (the first British record to feature scratching) and the quirky Double Dutch.<\/p>\n
After releasing Would Ya Like More Scratchin\u2019 (1984), McLaren then turned his attention to opera, producing the hit single Madame Butterfly and the album Fans (1985). Other albums mixing hip-hop and ethnic rhythms followed.<\/p>\n
In the Nineties McLaren moved into television, producing commercials and, in 1991, a poorly received Christmas show, The Ghosts of Oxford Street, which featured The Pogues, Tom Jones and the Happy Mondays.<\/p>\n
He returned to recording in 1993, signing to the French label Vogue and releasing an album, Paris, which gained poor reviews. In 1998 he attempted unsuccessfully to launch a group named Jungk, consisting of five beautiful Chinese girls.<\/p>\n
McLaren co-produced for the film adaptation of Fast Food Nation, shown in 2006 at the Cannes Film Festival, and in the same year presented the documentary series Malcolm McLaren’s Musical Map of London for BBC Radio 2. This was followed in 2007 by Malcolm McLaren’s Life and Times in LA.<\/p>\n
Also in 2007, he was due to appear in a reality television show for ITV, The Baron, which had to be postponed owing to the death of his fellow contestant Mike Reid. He was later due to appear in a series of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, set in the Australian outback, but pulled out at the last moment.<\/p>\n
Malcolm McLaren\u2019s son by Vivienne Westwood, Joe Corr\u00e9, became proprietor of the successful lingerie shop Agent Provocateur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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