Malcolm Mclaren is dead. :(

[Hadrian]

From NME.

Former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren has died aged 64.

He had been suffering from cancer and died this morning (April 8) in New York, reports the Independent. His body is set to be flown to London to be buried in Highgate cemetery.

McLaren was born in 1946 in the UK capital and raised in the Stoke Newington area of the city. He studied at art schools including St Martin's College Of Art and Goldsmiths College.

Prior to managing the Sex Pistols from 1975 to 1977, McLaren ran Let It Rock, a clothing store in London, with designer and then-partner Vivienne Westwood (with whom he had a son, Joseph, born in 1967) later re-named Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die, and then, most famously, SEX. It was here that John Lydon auditioned for the role of Sex Pistols' frontman, miming to an Alice Cooper record on the jukebox.

McLaren also managed New York Dolls shortly before launching the Pistols.

Following his management career McLaren launched his own musical projects, releasing the first of his albums, 'Duck Rock', in 1983, and having huge UK hits with the likes of 'Buffalo Gals', 'Double Dutch' and 'Madame Butterfly'.

He went on to release albums throughout the 1980s, '90s and '00s, most recently last year's 'Shallow – Musical Paintings'.

Can't say I liked him as a person but it is hard to deny that he has had some impact on British culture.

 

[TrolleyDave]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8610423.stm

He was a bit of a toff, but he was a very clever bloke. I'm indebted to him for creating one of my all time favourite bands.

 

[Toni Plutonij]

Wha?!

When did that happen.....
Guy who did the Greatest Rock'n'Roll Swindle in the history of music

He was an ass, but in that generation, who wasn't.

RIP Malcolm

 

[Toni Plutonij]

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=219911

Merge threads Hadrian, do some work, don't be lazy and spam the boards all the time

And I share the same opinion, not that I liked him very much, but he did some incredible things for the anti-culture I live.

RIP Malcolm

 

[TrolleyDave]

This morning mate.

Gutting really. Anybody who could steal THAT much dosh from EMI and Virgin is a legend! lol The fact that he managed to make a killing from a record company without actually having to release any music is genius! I don't think we'll ever see another manager like him. Like you say, he was an ass but who wasn't at that time. And if he wasn't such an ass he definitely wouldn't have been able to create the Pistols!

 

[Toni Plutonij]

No doubt that he was a great great manager. And one of the biggest "thiefs" in the music industry.
But he'll be a big name in my eyes forever, just because he did so much for the punk genre, including "creating" of Pistols..

 

[TrolleyDave]

Bollocks! Sorry Hadrian mate I never noticed this thread in here when I posted mine.