Malcolm McClaren dies at age 64

[dana_b]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/malcolm-mclaren-dies-aged-64-1939621.html
Malcolm McLaren, the former manager of the Sex Pistols and impresario, has died from cancer, aged 64.

Best-known as the manager of the punk band the Sex Pistols, he achieved the notoriety he sought – and which never left him – when the band's anti-establishment single "God Save The Queen", released during the Queen's Silver Jubilee, was banned from the airwaves by the BBC and the Independent Broadcasting Authority.

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Last night Miss Westwood said: "When we were young and I fell in love with Malcolm, I thought he was beautiful and I still do. I thought he was a very charismatic, special and talented person. We hadn't been in touch for a long time. The thought of him dead is really something very sad."

The shop became a focal point of the fledgling punk movement. It was here that he first encountered a young John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. Last night Mr Lydon said: "For me Malc was always entertaining, and I hope you remember that. Above all else he was an entertainer and I will miss him, and so should you."


As someone on the independent said, he made the seventies more interesting. Indeed he did! His boldness and "scammy vision" (as my friend says) brought us UK punk.

[BurtWorm]

1. I know.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9326247

I heard him speak at Wesleyan in about 1988. It was a huge hall and an overflowing crowd that came to see him. His subject was fashion and society, but of course he talked about the Sex Pistols and punk quite a lot. Interesting man. I have a lot of respect for him.

[dana_b]

2. oops! I looked but

missed that thread.

anyway - he will be missed. Music needs more shit disturbers like him.