Malcolm McLaren, the former manager of the Sex Pistols and impresario, has died. He was 64.

http://www.independent.co...39621.html




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oh no

Damn. That guy was a true music industry legend.

He'll be sadly and sorely missed.

Not suprising considering his lengthy battle with cancer. Perhaps death came as a relief to his suffering.

Man who completely ripped off The Sex Pistols is now deified!

He was a character, to say the least.

Tis a great shame - he was extremely inventive musically. Just listening to one of my faves "Waltz Darling" at the moment. RIP.

Didn't see this thread before. Malcolm had some great songs.

Strangely enough I was listening to Duck Rock last weekend and was reminded how ahead of it's time it was.

Swa said:

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Such a great album:

Cause you can Malcom..... And he did .....

"Without Malcolm McLaren there would not have been any British punk."Journalist Jon Savage....

He helped to style both Boy George and Adam Ant, and opened a flamboyant, pirate-themed clothes shop called World's End.

Hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa took McLaren to the Bronx

Buffalo Gals and its follow-up, the Caribbean-flavoured skipping anthem Double Dutch, were hits on both sides of the Atlantic

"I found myself on the same bill as Madonna at some Greenpeace concert and I remember her watching my dancers voguing from the side of the stage,"

He gave voice to a disillusioned generation when fascism and reaction could have taken control. We owe him big time and he will be missed.

Without the energy and irreverence of punk, there would have been no New Wave, and none of the great British bands that graced the early 1980s. In my view, not better than the Beatles, but much more important at the time.

I thought I'd get a major scoop by being the first journalist to talk to (Don)Letts about McLaren's sad demise. But his New York City publicist called a few minutes past three to say that Letts was too shaken up to do anything.

It's understandable. (Don)Letts was a major part of the scene where McLaren made his reputation and probably would have interacted with him on almost a daily basis more than 30 years ago

PopMatters: You have family in Jamaica, but you didn't travel there until your trip with John Lydon in the late '70s. Were you born and raised in London?

Don Letts: Born and raised in London (1956), first generation Black British. I'm as old as rock and roll.

DL: Back in '76 the punk scene was in its infancy. It was a movement with nowhere to go so they started to hang out in Malcolm's shop and Acme. Acme's accountant decided to start a club (the Roxy) and since the punks came to Acme to listen to the sounds as well as buy clothes he asked me to DJ. The Pistols, the Clash, the Slits -- in fact all the major players (and bit actors) -- passed through Acme. As for my relationship with John and the Clash, this was fueled mostly by our mutual interest in each other's culture which manifest itself in music.






Said it all really.....The guy had a taste for now! he new British music needed a shake up ....so he did just that...

As we say in the UK "nice one Malcom".... R.I.P.

Oh, that's sad to hear. I really like him on the song "Buffalo Gals". May God bless him and his family/friends. Rest In Peace.

RIP

Here's an interview he did a while back:

http://gakcity.com/2010/0...kcity-com/

2elijah said:

That shit was dope.

Cinnie said:

The interviewer, Jeremy, is a friend of my son. My son filmed that interview. Jeremy's interviewed artists like Janelle Monae, J*Davey, Linkin Park, Esthero, Lady Gaga, photographer-David LaChapelle, Jermaine Dupri, Foreign Exchange, Victor Duplaiz, and more. I remember when they did this interview Malcolm, and I was surprised they were even able to interview him. They put this interview up on their site this week to honor him.
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Who could forget 'World's Famous'? I wore this LP out back in the day. The piano solo is killer. Frankie Crocker played it on his show all the time.

This didn't get enough org hits so...


AS SAMPLED BY JANET JACKSON ON THE TITLE TRACK FOR VELVET ROPE


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Steve Jones, formerly of the Sex Pistols, on McLaren:

Steve said that over the years he had hectored his old manager for snatching up more than his fair share of money and glory.

"I was always next in line when it came to slagging him and calling him a crook," said Jones, who interviewed McLaren several times on his L.A.-based radio program, "Jonesy's Jukebox." "But when I found he was dead, when his son called and told me, I was really saddened by it."

"Underneath it all I really loved him," Jones said.

Jones said that McLaren was "a big key in what happened in punk and with the revolution of it all" but that he undermined his own credibility by constantly clamoring for recognition through the years.

"The whole thing probably wouldn't have taken off the way it did without him, there's no doubt about that," Jones said, "but his downfall is that he spent the rest of his life trying to take credit for all of it."


(Source: LA Times)

Identity said:

That's actually a fair summation, I think.....given how darkly (and rightly so) Malcolm was portrayed in "The Sound And The Fury". He was deeply flawed, but relevant. Nice of Steve to show a little emotion after all the B.S.

JamFanHot said:

My bad.....it's "The FILTH & the Fury'

Trouser Press - May 1983 interview after the release of "Buffalo Gals"









I scanned that shit for y'all!
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Thanks Cinnie. Not surprised they turned down the video for "Buffalo Girls" because of what he pointed out. MTV was always corporate.

Timmy84 said:

MTV Corporate BullS*** .....


Anyway here's DJ Premier Tribute to Malcom .....Great Mix ....

R.I.P. Malcom...

http://www.djpremierblog....ibute-mix/


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LondonStyle said:

oww wow, nice catch!!