Malcolm McLaren

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Malcolm McLaren (born on January 22nd, 1946 in London England) has had a varied career starting from Art School dropout to Kings Road merchant, moving into band manager, socio-political instigator, quasi-musician himself, wry social commentator & influential media manipulator. In the late 1960s he started designing clothes and by 1972 he opened a clothing boutique in London with his then girlfriend, Vivienne Westwood.

In 1975, after a failed stint at managing & relaunching the image of the notoriously hard living and chaotic band The New York Dolls, Malcolm nurtured the formation of one of the most infamous punk bands in history, The Sex Pistols. He became their manager, and controlled their contracts, as well as most importantly to him, their image in the media. The venture ended in a disastrous US tour, and a film called “The Great Rock And Roll Swindle” that featured McLaren, and glorified his untraditional Situationist PR approach and manipulative Svengali-esque role in the band’s career.

In the ’80s, after the Sex Pistols had long broken up, Malcolm became the manager of another band, Adam and the Ants which veered away from punk’s coarse format via new romantic pirate garb and poly rhythmic African style drumming. When Adam Ant rebelled and left the band, Malcolm repackaged the musicians with a 14 year old Anglo/Burmese girl named Annabella Lwin to form the band Bow Wow Wow. He soon used his headline making skills to propel the band and their underage lead singer to the top of the charts with a nude album cover scandal.

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brrrclaw wrote:
last month

to be bad is good. to be good is boring.

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godonnygo wrote:
September 2009

What exactly was McLaren's role in making the Duck Rock album? Did he provide his voice and ideas for the album, or did he have instrumental/production input also?

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dvoodoo wrote:
June 2009

@TheOnlyRoc: Worst manager ever? I guess you never heard of any of his projects? Do you really think oridinary working class yobs Steve Jones & PaulCook would have ever risen to infamy in the late 70's and distinguished themselves on a global level without his PR skills? He was not a friend or therapist...he was theirmanager...and he managed to get most of his acts spread a lot further across the pop cultural landscape than they would have without his participation.He employed Situationist tactics into the mainstream media and generally got results. Was he ethical, honest, exploitative, overly self aggrandizing or ever considered a competent part of the music industry? Those are an entirely different set of value judgements and questions... But when one asks "was he successful?" You decide... I'd say more so than most... After all he obviously spelled his intentions all out in the title of his cinematic magnum opus "The Great Rock n Roll Swindle"...

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Ilya-abc wrote:
April 2009

about her haha cool

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riffman94 wrote:
April 2009

i like the song, Boy's Chorus

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AlexLug wrote:
February 2009

Great music!

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godvh wrote:
January 2009

a sweet sad desire comes into my mind....

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Spelendora wrote:
January 2009

Paris album - soo cute

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Olie25 wrote:
December 2008

feelings and memories!

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Kitsuneredfox wrote:
November 2008

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!like it soooooooooo much!

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brendanvox wrote:
October 2008

Graceland can suck Duck Rock's dick.

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goo_goo_muck wrote:
May 2008

and backwards.

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goo_goo_muck wrote:
May 2008

i just love to hate him

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biggee41 wrote:
March 2008

forgot what a good track this was, Mclaren was ahead of his time!!

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da_rulah wrote:
January 2008

http://www.goldrapvideos.net/2008/01/malcolmmclaren-buffalogals-xvid-1982.html

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bAzTNM wrote:
January 2008

Waltz Darling is a forgotten good one.

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bitpop wrote:
December 2007

Sounds like Moby

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tol-eressea wrote:
December 2007

I recommend You 'Walking with Satie', great thing

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ardenstreet wrote:
October 2007

does anyone have access to the soundtrack to no small affair? i've been trying to track down mclaren & the mclarenettes' version of eiffel towers and cannot find it anywhere... help?

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mixxa wrote:
October 2007

'Jazz is Paris' - the best!

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