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{{Short description|English fashion designer and music manager (1946–2010)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Malcolm McLaren
| image = MalcomMcLarenspeaking crop.jpg
| caption = McLaren in 2009
| background = solo_singer
| birth_name = Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1946|1|22}}
| birth_place = [[Stoke Newington]], [[London]], England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2010|4|8|1946|1|22}}
| death_place = [[Bellinzona]], Ticino, Switzerland
| genre = {{hlist|[[Rock music|Rock]]|[[punk rock]]|[[Hip hop music|hip hop]]|[[New wave music|new wave]]|[[Dance music|dance]]}}
| occupation = {{hlist|Musician|singer-songwriter|producer|band manager|entrepreneur|music businessman}}
| years_active = 1971–2010
| label = {{hlist|[[Charisma Records|Charisma]]|[[Island Records|Island]]/[[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]]|[[Epic Records|Epic]]/[[Sony Music Entertainment|SME]]|[[Gee Street Records|Gee Street]]/Island/[[PolyGram Records|PolyGram]]|[[Virgin Records|Virgin]]/[[EMI]]}}
| associated_acts = [[Sex Pistols]], [[New York Dolls]], [[Bow Wow Wow]], [[The World's Famous Supreme Team]], [[Art of Noise]], [[Jimmy The Hoover]]
| website = {{URL|malcolmmclaren.com}}
}}
'''Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren''' (22 January 1946 – 8 April 2010) was an English<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mkG7Y6_J7pUC&q=%22malcolm+mclaren%22+%22i%27m+english%22&pg=PA192|title=Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk|first1=Gillian|last1=McCain|date=18 July 2017|publisher=Grove Press|isbn=9780802142641|via=Google Books}}</ref> [[fashion design]]er and [[talent manager#Music managers|music manager]]. He was a promoter and a manager for [[punk rock]] and [[New wave music|new wave]] bands such as [[New York Dolls]], [[Sex Pistols]], [[Adam and the Ants]], and [[Bow Wow Wow]], and was an early influencer of the [[punk subculture]].
McLaren was brought up by his grandmother after his father, Peter, left the family home. He attended several British art colleges in the 1960s, where he became involved in underground art and left-wing activism. From 1974 to 1976, he operated the [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]] boutique [[Sex (boutique)|Sex]] with his girlfriend [[Vivienne Westwood]], which helped shape early [[punk fashion]] and became an early hub for the subculture in London. After a period advising the [[New York Dolls]] in the United States, McLaren managed the [[Sex Pistols]], for which he recruited frontman [[John Lydon|Johnny Rotten]]. The issue of a controversial record, "[[God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols song)|God Save the Queen]]", satirizing the [[Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Queen's Jubilee]] in 1977, was typical of McLaren's shock tactics, and he gained publicity by being arrested after a promotional boat trip outside the [[Houses of Parliament]].
In the 1980s, McLaren continued managing other London-based acts and performed as mainly a solo artist, initially focusing on [[hip hop music|hip hop]] and [[world music]] and later diversifying into [[funk]], [[disco]], and [[electronic dance music]]. When accused of turning popular culture into a cheap marketing gimmick, he replied that he hoped it was true. His first album, ''[[Duck Rock]]'', was certified silver in the UK and spawned the top-ten singles "[[Buffalo Gals (Malcolm McLaren song)|Buffalo Gals]]" and "[[Double Dutch (song)|Double Dutch]]".
In his later years, he lived in [[Paris]] and [[New York City]] and died of [[peritoneal mesothelioma]] in a Swiss hospital.
== Early years ==
McLaren was born on 22 January 1946<ref name="obit">{{cite news |first=Tom |last=Peck |title=Malcolm McLaren dies aged 64 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/malcolm-mclaren-dies-aged-64-1939621.html |work=The Independent |___location=UK |date=8 April 2010 |access-date=8 April 2010}}</ref> to Scottish-born<ref name="forward/mclaren-jewish">{{cite news |last1=Sullivan |first1=Jim |title=How the grandson of Jewish diamond dealers created the greatest rock 'n' roll swindle of all time |url=https://forward.com/culture/503999/sex-pistols-malcom-mclaren-jewish-johnny-rotten-hulu-fx-pistol/ |access-date=6 July 2024 |work=[[The Forward]] |date=29 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220529160442/https://forward.com/culture/503999/sex-pistols-malcom-mclaren-jewish-johnny-rotten-hulu-fx-pistol/ |archive-date=29 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref> engineer<ref name="forward/mclaren-jewish"/> Peter McLaren, an upper-middle-class<ref name="forward/mclaren-jewish"/> Londoner who was at that time serving with the Royal Engineers,<ref name = Gorman>{{cite book |last1=Gorman |first1=Paul |title=The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren: The Biography |date=2020 |publisher=Constable |isbn=978-1-4721-2109-7}}</ref> and Emily Isaacs, the daughter of tailor Mick Isaacs and independently wealthy Rose Corré Isaacs, whose father had been a [[Spanish and Portuguese Jews|Portuguese Sephardic Jewish]] diamond dealer.
McLaren's parents divorced when he was two after Peter McLaren left the family home due to his wife's serial infidelity: McLaren later alleged that her lovers included the [[Selfridges]] magnate Sir Charles Clore and Sir [[Isaac Wolfson]], owner of [[GUS (retailer)|Universal Stores]].<ref name="Gorman"/>
<blockquote>"We've talked to Malcolm's mum. Even she doesn't like him."<ref name="forward/mclaren-jewish"/> — Judy and Fred Vermorel,<ref name="google-books/HuhxPAAACAAJ">{{cite book |last1=Vermorel |first1=Fred |last2=Vermorel |first2=Judy |title=Sex Pistols: The Inside Story |date=2006 |publisher=Omnibus Press |isbn=978-1-84609-066-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HuhxPAAACAAJ |access-date=6 July 2024 |language=en}}</ref><!-- <ref name="factoryrecords/fred-vermorel">{{cite web |title=FRED VERMOREL |url=https://factoryrecords.org/fred-vermorel.php |website=Factory Records .org |access-date=6 July 2024}}</ref><ref name="indymedia/20287">{{cite web |last1=Vermorel |first1=Fred |title=Paris May '68 diary |url=https://arkansas.indymedia.org/newswire/display/20287/index.php |website=Arkansas IMC |access-date=6 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080510103930/https://arkansas.indymedia.org/newswire/display/20287/index.php |archive-date=10 May 2008 |___location=Paris |date=May 1968}}</ref><ref name="katebushencyclopedia/vermorel-fred">{{cite web |title=Fred Vermorel |url=https://www.katebushencyclopedia.com/vermorel-fred/ |website=Kate Bush Encyclopedia |access-date=6 July 2024 |date=18 August 2018}}</ref><ref>https://paulgormanis.com/?p=16474 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref><ref>https://www.theregister.com/2008/11/12/fred_vermorel_girls_aloud/ {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref> --><ref name="richmond.ac.uk/vermorel">{{cite web |title=Faculty - Fred Vermorel, Associate Professor of Communication |url=http://www.richmond.ac.uk/faculty/dr-fred-vermorel.aspx |website=Richmond University |access-date=6 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523190528/http://www.richmond.ac.uk/faculty/dr-fred-vermorel.aspx |archive-date=23 May 2012}}</ref> 1984</blockquote>
Subsequently, McLaren was raised by his grandmother Rose, alone,<ref name="telegraph/out-of-will">{{cite news |last1=Leigh |first1=Wendy |title=Joseph Corré: Why Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren wrote me out of his will |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/why-sex-pistols-manager-malcolm-mclaren-wrote-me-out-of-his-will/ |access-date=6 July 2024 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |date=27 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151128035831/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/why-sex-pistols-manager-malcolm-mclaren-wrote-me-out-of-his-will/ |archive-date=November 28, 2015}}</ref> next door at No. 49.
At age 16, McLaren left Orange Hill with three [[O-level]]s and was briefly employed in a handful of jobs before attending classes at [[St Martin's School of Art]] and then undertaking a foundation course at [[Harrow School of Art]].<ref name="Very Brown">{{cite news|last1=Brown|first1=Sheilagh|title=Sheilagh Brown and Sheridan Barnett|url=http://www.verymagazine.org/magazine/issue-15/12-issue-15/36-sheilagh-brown-a-sheridan-barnett|access-date=5 August 2014|issue=15|publisher=Very Magazine|archive-date=8 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808051917/http://www.verymagazine.org/magazine/issue-15/12-issue-15/36-sheilagh-brown-a-sheridan-barnett|url-status=dead}}</ref> Other arts institutions attended by McLaren over the next seven years included the South East Essex School of Art in [[Walthamstow]] and [[Goldsmiths, University of London|Goldsmiths]].
== Fashion design and music ==
=== 430 King's Road, Vivienne Westwood and New York Dolls ===
In October 1971, McLaren took over the back part of the retail premises at [[Sex_(boutique)|430 King's Road]] in Chelsea, West London, and sold [[rock and roll]] records, refurbished 1950s [[Radiogram (device)|radiograms]] and dead stock clothing as "In The Back Of Paradise Garage". With the assistance of art school friend Patrick Casey, McLaren converted the entire ground floor into the store and renamed it Let It Rock, initially selling clothing (dead stock, military surplus) and objects he had sourced.<ref name="Larkinindie">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Who's Who of Indie and New Wave Music]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-579-4|page=172}}</ref> When the shop became a success, he enlisted the help of his then-girlfriend [[Vivienne Westwood]] who customized and repaired original clothing and made facsimiles.<ref>p. 8, ''England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols & Punk Rock'' by Jon Savage, Faber, 1989</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/apr/08/malcolm-mclaren-dies-sex-pistols|title=Malcolm McLaren dies aged 64|last=Jones|first=Aidan|date=8 April 2010|work=The Guardian|access-date=15 September 2017|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
Let It Rock was patronised by [[Teddy Boy|teddy boys]]<ref>''Beatles Loathers Return: Britain's Teddy Boys'', ''Rolling Stone'', 2 March 1972</ref> and McLaren and Westwood's designs also appeared in such theatrical and cinematic productions such as ''[[The Rocky Horror Show]]'' and ''[[That'll Be the Day (film)|That'll Be The Day]]''.<ref name="Gorman"/> In spring 1973 the store was renamed Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die and began selling original 1950s-inspired leather clothing. Among the commissions were costumes for [[Ken Russell]]'s film ''[[Mahler (film)|Mahler]]''.<ref>Shirley Russell, Mahler, Goodtimes Enterprises, 1974</ref> In August 1973, McLaren and Westwood visited New York to participate in the National Boutique Fair, where they began an association with the [[New York Dolls]],<ref name="Larkinindie"/> supplying them with stage wear and joining their group on tour in the UK and France.<ref name="Gorman"/> In October 1974, he renamed the outlet [[Sex (boutique)|Sex]] to reflect its move towards [[fetish fashion]] and provocation.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}} In January 1975, McLaren and Westwood designed red [[patent leather]] costumes for the New York Dolls and used a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]-style [[hammer and sickle]] motif for their stage shows in the US as an attempt to attract attention through provocation. This ploy was not successful and the Dolls soon broke up, with guitarist [[Johnny Thunders]] specifically naming McLaren as "the reason why we broke up."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rte.ie/archives/2020/0326/1126518-johnny-thunders/|title=New York Doll 1990|date=26 April 1990 |website=RTÉ Archives |access-date=9 September 2020}}</ref> McLaren instead blamed Thunders and drummer Jerry Nolan's drug addictions for the split.<ref name="Gorman"/> In May 1975, McLaren returned to Britain.
=== Sex Pistols ===
From 1974, McLaren had advised [[Sex (boutique)|Sex]] customers [[Paul Cook]] and [[Steve Jones (musician)|Steve Jones]] on their musical aspirations, having proposed that one of his shop assistants, [[Glen Matlock]], join them as the bass-player in a group McLaren named Kutie Jones and his Sex Pistols. In the summer of 1975, McLaren ejected frontman [[Wally Nightingale]] from the line-up because he did not fit with McLaren's vision for the band's image.<ref>"The Lost Pistol", Nick Kent, ''Punk: The Whole Truth'', Mojo Special Edition, May 2005</ref> His one-time associate [[Bernard Rhodes|Bernie Rhodes]], who would later become the manager of [[the Clash]], claimed he spotted a new frontman in another customer, [[John Lydon]], then sporting green hair and torn clothes with the words "I hate" written on a [[Pink Floyd]] T-shirt above the band's name. After Lydon joined, McLaren dubbed him "Johnny Rotten" and shortened the band's name to simply Sex Pistols, stating that he wanted to give the impression of "sexy young assassins".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/apr/09/malcolm-mclaren-obituary |title=Malcolm McLaren obituary |first=Dave |last=Simpson|date=9 April 2010|work=The Guardian |___location=UK |access-date=24 April 2010 }}</ref>
In May 1977, a few months after McLaren replaced Matlock with [[Sid Vicious]] (supposedly because Matlock "liked [[The Beatles]]"),<ref name="TSG">{{cite web |author=The Newsroom |date=2 February 2016 |title=Punk icon Sid Vicious died on this day in 1979 |url=https://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/punk-icon-sid-vicious-died-on-this-day-in-1979-372946 |work=[[Shields Gazette]]}}</ref> the band released the anti-monarchy protest song "[[God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols song)|God Save the Queen]]" during the week of [[Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee]]. McLaren organised a boat trip down the [[River Thames|Thames]] in which the Sex Pistols would perform their music outside the [[Palace of Westminster|Houses of Parliament]]. The boat was raided by the police and McLaren was arrested, thus achieving his goal to obtain publicity.
The band released their album ''[[Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols]]'' in October 1977 and played their last UK gig before embarking upon a U.S. tour in January 1978. McLaren was accused by the band of mismanaging them and refusing to pay them when they asked him for money. McLaren stated that he had planned out the entire career path of the Sex Pistols, which he illustrated in the film ''[[The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle]].'' Lydon's feelings of being used by McLaren formed the creative impetus for his subsequent band [[Public Image Ltd]].<ref name="Brazier">{{cite journal |last=Brazier |first=Chris |date=28 October 1978 |title=The Danceable Solution |journal=[[Melody Maker]]}}</ref> The contractual rights to the Sex Pistols' name were disputed in a case brought by Lydon, Jones, Cook and the estate of Sid Vicious in 1979 against McLaren's management company Glitterbest. In 1986 the High Court awarded the rights to the group's name, ''The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle'', the artwork, master tapes and the group's income to Lydon and the others. In the 2000 film ''[[The Filth and the Fury]]'', the surviving members of the Sex Pistols gave their version of events.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}} McLaren is portrayed during his time as the Sex Pistols' manager by [[David Hayman]] in the film ''[[Sid and Nancy]]'' and by [[Thomas Brodie-Sangster]] in the miniseries [[Pistol (miniseries)|''Pistol'']].
=== Other artists ===
McLaren was approached by [[Adam Ant]] to manage [[Adam and the Ants]] following their debut album release in late 1979. Shortly thereafter, three members of the band left to form [[Bow Wow Wow]] under McLaren's management.<ref name="Larkinindie"/> McLaren continued to manage Ant as he formed a new lineup of the Ants and also advised [[the Slits]] and [[Jimmy the Hoover]].
The members of Bow Wow Wow were dressed in clothing designed by McLaren and Westwood, and he embroiled the group in such controversies as plans to publish a magazine titled ''Chicken'', to celebrate sex between individuals under the age of consent.<ref>Reynolds, Simon, and Joy Press. The Sex Revolt. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. 40–41. Print.</ref>
=== Solo music career ===
In 1983, McLaren released ''[[Duck Rock]]'', an album that, in collaboration with producer and co-writer [[Trevor Horn]] and [[the World's Famous Supreme Team]] (a duo of hip hop radio disc jockeys from New York City who hosted a hip hop and classic R&B show on [[WXNY-FM|WHBI 105.9 FM]] and were among the first DJs to introduce the art of [[scratching]] to the world). This mixed up influences from Africa and the Americas, including [[Hip hop music|hip hop]].<ref name="Larkinindie"/> The album helped bring hip-hop to a wider audience. The singles "[[Buffalo Gals (Malcolm McLaren song)|Buffalo Gals]]" and "[[Double Dutch (song)|Double Dutch]]" became top-10 hits in the UK,<ref name="Larkinindie"/> with the former also a minor regional hit in the US.
In 1984 McLaren turned to electronic music and opera on the single "[[Madame Butterfly (song)|Madame Butterfly]]",<ref name="Larkinindie"/> which reached No. 13 in the UK and No. 16 in Australia. The producer of the single, [[Stephen Hague]], became much sought after following his work with McLaren on the LP ''[[Fans (album)|Fans]]''.<ref name="Larkinindie"/>
McLaren's 1989 album ''[[Waltz Darling]]'',<ref name="Larkinindie"/> was a [[funk]] and [[disco]] album inspired by the [[Vogue (dance)|voguing]] subculture. The singles "Waltz Darling" and "Something's Jumpin' in Your Shirt" became top-20 radio hits in Europe. A remix of "[[Deep in Vogue]]" was instrumental in bringing [[voguing]] and [[ball culture]] to wider public attention, topping the U.S. dance chart in July 1989 (some nine months before the global success of Madonna's similarly themed "[[Vogue (Madonna song)|Vogue]]"). "Deep in Vogue" is also notable for McLaren's collaborations with vogue performer [[Willi Ninja]] and filmmaker [[Jennie Livingston]], who directed the promotional music video and gave McLaren and remix producers [[Mark Moore]] and [[William Orbit]] permission to sample audio from the soundtrack of her then-unreleased voguing documentary ''[[Paris Is Burning (film)|Paris Is Burning]]''.
McLaren personally hired Creative Director John Carver to handle the design and art direction for "Waltz Darling". He was introduced to John by mutual friend Tommy Roberts at The Titanic nightclub, near Berkeley Square. McLaren and Carver spent a week together discussing visual references. McLaren returned to New York and Carver was left to design and art direct the album and singles sleeves.
In 1989, McLaren and composer [[Yanni]] arranged the "[[Flower Duet]]" into a work called "Aria on Air". The "Flower Duet" theme, taken from the French opera ''[[Lakmé]]'' by Léo Delibes, had already been used by composer [[Howard Blake]]<ref>[http://www.howardblake.com/music/Commercials/567/British-Airways-Theme-Tune-Lakme.htm British Airways Theme Tune]. Howardblake.com (31 March 1984). Retrieved on 9 July 2011.</ref> to accompany [[British Airways]] commercials since 1984. However, in 1989 McLaren and Yanni further arranged the "Flower Duet" and it featured in BA's "World's Favourite Airline" global advertising campaign of the 1980s and 1990s.
In 1992, McLaren co-wrote the song "[[Carry On Columbus]]" for the feature film of the same name. The song plays over the end credits of the film.
In 1994, he recorded the concept album ''[[Paris (Malcolm McLaren album)|Paris]]'', with appearances by such prominent French stars as actress [[Catherine Deneuve]], musician [[Françoise Hardy]], and fashion designer [[Sonia Rykiel]].
In 1998, McLaren released ''Buffalo Gals Back 2 Skool'' (Virgin Records), an album featuring hip hop artists [[Rakim]], [[KRS-One]], [[De La Soul]] and producer Henri Scars Struck revisiting tracks from the original ''Duck Rock'' album. That year, he also created a band called Jungk. This project was not a commercial success. Around this time he released a track called "The Bell Song" as a single available in a variety of remixes.
McLaren contributed a track, "About Her", to the [[Kill Bill Vol. 2 Original Soundtrack|soundtrack]] of [[Quentin Tarantino]]'s 2004 film ''[[Kill Bill: Volume 2]]''. The song heavily samples "[[She's Not There]]" by [[the Zombies]], and uses [[Bessie Smith]]'s "[[St. Louis Blues (song)|St. Louis Blues]]" by looping the phrase: "My man's got a heart like a rock cast in the sea".<ref>[http://alwaysontherun.net/bo.htm#kb2k Always on the Run.net]. Always on the Run.net. Retrieved on 9 July 2011.</ref> In November 2005, a court in Angers, France, cleared McLaren of plagiarism accusations made by French audio engineer Benjamin Beduneau. Beduneau, who had worked for McLaren and was paid by him through the studio, had taken McLaren's unfinished demos and fraudulently registered them under his own name at the French Composer Society, Sacem.<ref>[http://www.gigwise.com/news/9112/malcolm-mclaren-denies-plagiarism-claims Malcolm McLaren Denies Plagiarism Claims By French composer.] Retrieved on 18 October 2016.</ref> The court ruled in McLaren's favor and ordered Beduneau to pay damages, which he never did.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4427730.stm Kill Bill music case thrown out]. Bbc.com. Retrieved on 9 July 2011.</ref>
McLaren's solo work, particularly from the ''Duck Rock'' period, has been sampled by other artists. In 1999, [[Dope Smugglaz]] had a UK Top 20 hit with the track "Double Double Dutch", which made extensive use of samples from McLaren's original "Double Dutch". In 1997, [[Mariah Carey]]'s "[[Honey (Mariah Carey song)|Honey]]" and its "Bad Boy Remix" sampled "[[Hey DJ (The World's Famous Supreme Team song)|Hey DJ]]". In 2002, [[Eminem]] released a track called "[[Without Me (Eminem song)|Without Me]]", which incorporated "Buffalo Gals". In 2007, McLaren's song "World's Famous" was sampled by [[Contemporary R&B|R&B]] singer [[Amerie]] on the song "Some Like It" from her album ''[[Because I Love It]]''.
In 2001, author [[Paul Gorman]] published his book ''[[The Look: Adventures In Rock & Pop Fashion]]'' with a foreword and contributions from McLaren. The 2006 second edition included a CD featuring the track "Deux" from the ''Paris Remixes'' album.
=== Royalty payment controversies ===
In 1982, McLaren visited [[Johannesburg]] in South Africa. His hit song, "Double Dutch" was taken from "Puleng", by [[mbaqanga]] band "The Boyoyo Boys", as was the flip side "Zulus on a Time Bomb", from "Tsotsi". "On The Road To Soweto" was lifted from a General M. D. Shirinda and the Gaza Sisters song, "He Mdjadji", while two songs were taken from the [[Mahotella Queens]], with "Thina Siyakhanyisa" becoming "Jive My Baby", and "Kgarebe Tsaga Mothusi" becoming "Punk It Up".
McLaren had previously plagiarised the Mahotella Queens song "Umculo Kawupheli", which formed the basis of the [[Bow Wow Wow]] hit "See Jungle! (Jungle Boy)". None of the artists concerned received any royalty payments at the time. McLaren was later sued, with a UK judge freezing royalty payments to McLaren. The case was then settled out of court for an undisclosed sum of money.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Criminal record: How Malcolm McClaren ripped off SA musicians |url=https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/lifestyle/2021-03-28-criminal-record-how-malcolm-mcclaren-ripped-off-sa-musicians/ |access-date=1 July 2021 |website=TimesLIVE |language=en-ZA}}</ref>
== Film production ==
In 1984, McLaren turned away from record-making in favour of theatrical and film production, starting with a musical version of the Fans album to be staged off-Broadway with the impresario [[Joseph Papp]]. This was to remain in development for three years and involved contributions from the choreographer [[Tommy Tune]].<ref>The Wicked Ways of Malcolm McLaren, Craig Bromberg, HarperCollins, 1989. {{ISBN|0060962046}}</ref>
Simultaneously, McLaren worked with various collaborators on a film treatment which mixed the story of ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' with the life of the couturier [[Christian Dior]]. Titled ''[[Fashion Beast]],'' this was among a slate of productions McLaren pitched in Hollywood in the first half of 1985 to such film industry bigwigs as entertainment mogul [[David Geffen]] and Geffen's head of production at his company, [[Lynda Obst]].<ref>Bromberg</ref>
In the summer of 1985 McLaren was appointed to the position of production executive at [[CBS Theatrical Films]], the TV and stage arm of CBS Films. Working from an office on the CBS lot and living in a house in the hills above the [[Hollywood Bowl]], McLaren focused on ''Fans: The Musical'' and ''Fashion Beast'', for which he commissioned British comic book writer [[Alan Moore]] to write a script, and developed a raft of properties including ''Heavy Metal Surfing Nazis'', about [[post-apocalyptic]] turf wars among gangs on California's environmentally damaged beaches; ''The Rock'n'Roll Godfather'', a biopic of [[Led Zeppelin]]'s manager [[Peter Grant (music manager)|Peter Grant]]; and ''Wilde West'', based on the notion of [[Oscar Wilde]] discovering the roots of rock'n'roll during his celebrated [[Oscar Wilde#North America: 1882|1882 lecture tour]] of the US.<ref name="Gorman"/>
McLaren gained interest in the latter project and ''Fans: The Musical'' from [[Steven Spielberg]], and when CBS Theatrical Films closed at the end of 1985, was employed as an ideas guru at Spielberg's [[Amblin Entertainment]] while continuing to pitch his projects to other studios on a freelance basis. McLaren succeeded in attracting development funding for Fashion Beast from Manhattan nightlife entrepreneur Robert Boykin and the film was optioned by the newly founded independent production house Avenue Pictures, but after several rewrites the project faltered not least when Boykin's health suffered. He died from complications arising from Aids in 1988.<ref name="Gorman"/>
In 2012, Alan Moore adapted the ''Fashion Beast'' script for serialisation as a 10-issue comic book published by [[Avatar Press]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.avatarpress.com/tag/fashion-beast/|title=fashion beast | Avatar Press|website=Avatarpress.com|access-date=19 June 2021}}</ref>
In the early 90s McLaren returned to Europe and working out of London and Paris subsequently produced several film and television projects, starting with [[The Ghosts of Oxford Street]], which he co-directed, wrote and starred in. This was broadcast on Christmas Eve that year by British national TV channel [[Channel 4]]. This musical history of London's [[Oxford Street]] was also narrated by McLaren and included performances by [[Happy Mondays]], [[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]], [[Rebel MC]], [[Kirsty MacColl]], [[John Altman (composer)|John Altman]] and [[Sinéad O'Connor]].<ref>[http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsit/-/es/G/greatest/christmas_moments/26-50.html]{{dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>
In 2000, McLaren scripted and performed in the six-part series ''Being Malcolm'' for the French digital youth channel [[Jimmy (TV channel)|Jimmy]] and continued to develop film properties, the most successful of which was the 2006 film ''[[Fast Food Nation (film)|Fast Food Nation]]'', which he produced from [[Eric Schlosser]]'s book ''[[Fast Food Nation|Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal]]'', having appointed British producer [[Jeremy Thomas]], with whom he had worked with on ''The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle'', and director [[Richard Linklater]] to the project.<ref name="Gorman"/>
== Campaign to become Mayor of London ==
An article in the ''[[New Statesman]]'', published on 20 December 1999, titled "My Vision for London", included the "McLaren Manifesto",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2010/04/malcolm-mclaren-london-sex-pistols|title=When Malcolm McLaren ran for mayor|work=New Statesman |___location=UK |date= 9 April 2010}}</ref> prompting speculation that McLaren might stand to be elected as [[Mayor of London]].<ref name="musicinsight_6">[http://www.musicinsight.com/node/view/6 "Malcolm McLaren To Run For Mayor Of London"]. Musicinsight.com. Retrieved on 9 July 2011.</ref> With funds sourced from Sony Music by the rock music entrepreneur [[Alan McGee]], McLaren subsequently launched a campaign to stand as an independent candidate in the inaugural elections for the position in May 2000.<ref name="musicinsight_6" />
With a range of policy proposals, from environmentally-sensitive traffic calming to providing public libraries with licences to serve alcohol, McLaren took to the hustings in protest at "the great political swindle of the mainstream parties who are plotting to make London expensive, oppressive and boring".<ref>Malcolm McLaren Needs Your Help! Anyone Can Be A Sex Pistol, mayoral campaign leaflet, 2000</ref>
According to McLaren's campaign manager, the late entry into the mayoral race by [[Ken Livingstone]] forced him out of the running.<ref name="Gorman" />
== Radio and TV projects ==
In 2006, McLaren presented the documentary series ''Malcolm McLaren's Musical Map of London'' for [[BBC Radio 2]], followed in 2007 by ''Malcolm McLaren's Life and Times in L.A.''
Also in 2007, McLaren competed in a reality TV show for [[ITV (TV channel)|ITV]] titled ''The Baron'', filmed in the small Scottish fishing village of [[Gardenstown]]. The series was due to be shown in August 2007 but was postponed owing to the death of fellow contestant actor [[Mike Reid (actor)|Mike Reid]] shortly after filming was completed. It was eventually broadcast starting on 24 April 2008. During filming McLaren was seen urinating into the harbour and loudly telling assembled inhabitants of the devout town, "Jesus is a sausage", at which point he was physically assaulted by a resident.<ref>{{cite news|last=Liddle|first=Rod|url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/scotland-travel/are-you-looking-at-me-555mrkv5vhg|title=Are you looking at me?|work=The Sunday Times|date=8 July 2007|access-date=14 December 2021|url-access=subscription}}</ref> McLaren came last in the competition, which was won by Reid.
It was announced on 7 November 2007 that McLaren would be one of the contestants in the seventh series of the ITV reality show ''[[I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!]]'', set in the outback of Australia and premiered on British television on Monday 12 November 2007, but he pulled out the day he had flown to Australia.<ref>{{cite book |last=Busk-Cowley |first=Mark |title=I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!: The Inside Story |publisher=[[Bantam Press]] |date=2014 |pages=144–145 |isbn=978-0593073483}}</ref> He told the press "it is fake", that he didn't know any of the other celebrities and quite frankly, "he didn't have the time". He was replaced by [[Katie Hopkins]]. The following year he featured as one of the 'celebrity hijackers' in the UK TV series ''[[Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack]]'', which was broadcast on [[E4 (channel)|E4]]. In his hijack, he encouraged the housemates to remove their clothes, daub themselves in paint and produce artwork using only their bodies and a bicycle.
About his contribution to culture, McLaren has said about himself: "I have been called many things: a charlatan, a con man, or, most flatteringly, the culprit responsible for turning British popular culture into nothing more than a cheap marketing gimmick. This is my chance to prove that these accusations are true."<ref>''Classic Rock''. June 2010. Issue 145, p. 20.</ref>
== Visual art and exhibitions ==
While still an art student, McLaren had the first public exhibition of his work in 1967, which was based on an environmental installation staged at the [[Kingly Street]] Art Gallery in central London, run by a group of artists including [[Keith Albarn]].<ref>{{cite web|author=wornette |url=http://www.wornjournal.com/blog/book-review-fashion-and-perversity-a-life-of-vivienne-westwood-and-the-sixties-laid-bare/ |title=Book Review – Fashion and Perversity: A Life of Vivienne Westwood and the Sixties Laid Bare |website=Worn Fashion Journal |publisher=Wornjournal.com |access-date=2 August 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130621161839/http://www.wornjournal.com/blog/book-review-fashion-and-perversity-a-life-of-vivienne-westwood-and-the-sixties-laid-bare/ |archive-date=21 June 2013 }}</ref>
In 1986, McLaren participated in the 6th Sydney Biennale at the invitation of Australian curator Nick Waterlow.<ref>[http://bos-legacy.s3-website-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/about-us/history/1986-2/] {{dead link|date=June 2021}}</ref> Waterlow chose as the theme of the arts festival "Origins Originality + Beyond", and McLaren's involvement was based around his appropriation of [[Édouard Manet]]'s ''[[Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe]]'' for the cover of [[Bow Wow Wow]]'s [[See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy!|second album]].
In 1988, McLaren's work across activism, art, design, fashion and music was the subject of the exhibition ''Impresario: Malcolm McLaren and the British New Wave'' at New York's [[New Museum|New Museum Of Contemporary Art]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.newmuseum.org/index.php/Detail/Occurrence/Show/occurrence_id/172 |title=Impresario: Malcolm McLaren and the British New Wave|website=New Museum|date=20 November 1988 |access-date=2 August 2013}}</ref>
The 1996 London exhibition ''I Groaned With Pain''<ref>{{Cite book|title="I groaned with pain ...": Sex, seditionaries and the Sex Pistols : an exhibition at the Eagle Gallery, London, December, 1996|first1=Paul E|last1=Stolper|first2=Andrew|last2=Wilson|first3=England)|last3=Eagle Gallery (London|date=19 June 1996|publisher=Stolper-Wilson|oclc=480157009 }}</ref> presented the fashion designs McLaren created with Vivienne Westwood. In an accompanying video interview by curators Paul Stolper and Andrew Wilson, McLaren declared of the clothing, "I don't know whether it's art. It might be bigger than art. Art has been defined today as not much more than a commodity, and I don't think these things are. They remain, even now, set up in frames, as artefacts, enigmatic.'<ref>as cited in Gorman</ref>
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In the last decade or so of his life, McLaren returned formally to the visual arts. In 1999, an installation created by McLaren was shown as part of the [[Bonnefanten Museum|Bonnefanten's]] 1999 exhibit ''Smaak – On Taste'' in [[Maastricht]]. In 2005, this formed the basis of the exhibition ''Casino of Authenticity and Karaoke''<ref>[http://artcast.twoday.net/stories/843894/ ArtCast Basel: ArtCast featuring Malcolm McLaren]. Artcast.twoday.net. Retrieved on 9 July 2011.</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/download/Interview_with_Malcolm_McLaren/ac2005718.mp3 Interview download]. None. Retrieved on 9 July 2011.</ref> at the [[Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe|Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie]] (Center for Arts and Media Karlsruhe) in [[Karlsruhe]], Germany.<ref>[http://www.zkm.de/ Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie]. Zkm.de. Retrieved on 9 July 2011.</ref>
In 2008, New York City public arts group [[Creative Time]] premiered nine pieces of McLaren's 21-part sound painting series ''Shallow'' via MTV's massive HD screen in [[Times Square]].<ref name="timessquare">[http://www.timessquarenyc.org/documents/McLarenAt441-2.pdf Creative time presents the U.S. premiere of Malcolm McLaren's shallow outdoors in Times Square] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928070449/http://www.timessquarenyc.org/documents/McLarenAt441-2.pdf |date=28 September 2011 }}. (PDF) . Retrieved on 9 July 2011.</ref> The series, which was first shown at Art 39 Basel in June that year,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://artlog.com/event/show/1264|website=artlog|title=Malcolm McLaren: Shallow, A Series of Musical Paintings|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090306195754/http://artlog.com/event/show/1264|archive-date=6 March 2009}}</ref> was the first instalment of an ongoing public arts content partnership between [[Creative Time]] and MTV.<ref name="timessquare" /> The complete version of "Shallow 1–21" was given its full U.S. museum premiere in the Morris Gallery of the [[Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts|Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)]], in Philadelphia, from 24 October 2009 until 3 January 2010.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pafa.org/exhibitions/Past-Exhibitions/Malcolm-McLaren-Shallow-1-21/574/ |title=Malcolm McLaren: Shallow 1–21 | PAFA – Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts |website=PAFA.org |date=24 October 2009 |access-date=14 March 2016 |archive-date=17 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141117034900/http://www.pafa.org/exhibitions/Past-Exhibitions/Malcolm-McLaren-Shallow-1-21/574/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 2009, [[JRP-Ringier|JRP Ringier]] published McLaren's book ''Musical Painting'', which featured contributions from other visual artists including [[Damien Hirst]] and [[Jim Lambie]]. In the afterword, publisher Lionel Bovier wrote, "Malcolm McLaren is and has been an artist in the purest sense for his entire adult life."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jrp-ringier.com/pages/index.php?id_r=4&id_t=&id_p=6&id_b=1515 |title=Program |publisher=JRP-Ringier.com |access-date=2 August 2013}}</ref>
At the time of his death, McLaren had recently finished a new film work entitled ''Paris: Capital Of The XXIst Century'', which was first shown at the [[Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art]] in [[Gateshead]], UK.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.i-amonline.com/blog/65-malcolm-mclaren-il-adore-paris |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216065836/http://www.i-amonline.com/blog/65-malcolm-mclaren-il-adore-paris |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 February 2013 |title=Malcolm McLaren's Paris |website=Baltic Contemporary Art Centre |access-date=2 August 2013 }}</ref>
In 2011, the U.S. performance-art biennial festival Performa instituted ''The Malcolm'', an award for the most thought-provoking entry named after McLaren and designed by [[Marc Newson]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://i-donline.com/2011/11/the-malcolm-mclaren-award/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216073308/http://i-donline.com/2011/11/the-malcolm-mclaren-award/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 February 2013 |title=The Malcolm McLaren Award |publisher=i-D Online |date=21 November 2011 |access-date=2 August 2013 }}</ref>
In 2013, The Costume Institute of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition "Punk: From Chaos To Couture" included the section "The Couturier Situationists" dedicated to McLaren and Westwood.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/article/TMG9540425/New-Yorks-Metropolitan-Museum-of-Art-pick-punk-for-2013-exhibition.html |title=New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art pick punk for 2013 exhibition |website=Telegraph |date= 13 September 2012|access-date=2 August 2013 |___location=London |first=Bibby |last=Sowray}}</ref>
=== Posthumous exhibitions ===
An exhibition about McLaren's engagement in fashion was held as part of the Copenhagen International Fashion Fair in August 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wmagazine.com/culture/2014/08/malcolm-mclaren-fashion-exhibition-ciff/photos/|title=Malcolm McLaren Is the Subject of CIFF's New Fashion Exhibition|author=Sue Williamson|work=W Magazine|access-date=8 August 2014|archive-date=12 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812035622/http://www.wmagazine.com/culture/2014/08/malcolm-mclaren-fashion-exhibition-ciff/photos/|url-status=dead}}</ref> "Let It Rock: The Look of Music The Sound of Fashion" was curated by Young Kim and Paul Gorman and included sections focusing on each of the six retail outlets McLaren operated with Vivienne Westwood.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2014-08/5/four-ways-malcolm-mclaren-revolutionised-fashion |title=Four ways Malcolm McLaren revolutionised the style scene|access-date=8 August 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140807205233/http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2014-08/5/four-ways-malcolm-mclaren-revolutionised-fashion |archive-date=7 August 2014 }}</ref> Original clothing, photographs and ephemera were loaned by the Malcolm McLaren Estate archive and such collectors as British fashion designer [[Kim Jones (designer)|Kim Jones]] and musician [[Marco Pirroni]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stylebubble.co.uk/style_bubble/2014/08/let-it-rock-the-look-of-music-the-sound-of-fashion.html|title=Let it Rock: The Look of Music The Sound of Fashion – Style Bubble|work=stylebubble.co.uk|access-date=8 August 2014|archive-date=9 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809170523/http://www.stylebubble.co.uk/style_bubble/2014/08/let-it-rock-the-look-of-music-the-sound-of-fashion.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> British fashion writer [[Charlie Porter (journalist)|Charlie Porter]] praised the curation, writing on his blog: "At the Malcolm McLaren show in Copenhagen, the hang of the garments is exceptional."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://charlieporter.net/stories/15724|title=At the Malcolm McLaren show in Copenhagen, the hang of the garments is exceptional|work=charlieporter.net}}</ref>
McLaren's background in the visual arts as a student and practitioner was a major focus of the exhibition Art in Pop held at the contemporary art gallery Le Magasin, the Centre National d'Art Contemporain in [[Grenoble]], France, from October 2014 to February 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://next.liberation.fr/arts/2014/12/26/grenoble-a-base-de-popopopop_1170416|title=Grenoble, à base de popopopop|work=Libération}}</ref> "The main central space is dedicated to Malcolm McLaren, who embodies more than anyone the breaking open of perceptions of what constitutes an artist," wrote Magasin's Yves Aupetitallot in the exhibition introduction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allonsaumusee.com/post/Expositions-en-Is%C3%A8re-Printemps-2014|title=Expositions en Isère Automne 2014 – Allons au musée|author=Andrée Laporte-Daube|date=4 November 2014|work=allonsaumusee.com}}</ref>
Aupetitallot curated Art in Pop with [[Paul Gorman]], Young Kim and participating artists [[John Armleder]] and [[John Miller (American artist)|John Miller]]. The exhibition also included contributions from musicians [[Daniel Johnston]], Don Van Vliet ([[Captain Beefheart]]), [[Genesis P-Orridge|Genesis Breyer P-Orridge]] and [[Alan Vega]] as well as artists who have engaged with music such as [[Alix Lambert]] and Takuji Kogo.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://magasin-cnac.org/?lang=en&PHPSESSID=a976ecbea8d8ba836b1188c481c268d8|title=Magasin|work=magasin-cnac.org}}</ref>
The McLaren space at Art in Pop included original examples of fashion designs created with Westwood, including loans from Kim Jones, Marco Pirroni, anthropologist/writer [[Ted Polhemus]] and streetwear guru [[Hiroshi Fujiwara]]. Photography, ephemera and images from a 1969 student art show were displayed, as well as a painting from the mid-1980s entitled "I Will Be So Bad".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.paulgormanis.com/?p=12281|title=Curating: McLaren's 1987 painting I Will Be So Bad one of the highlights of Art In Pop's packed vernissage|work=Paul Gorman is...}}</ref> The exhibition also included a soundtrack of music made by McLaren, prompting [[Marie France]] to describe it as "an invigorating exhibition not just to see but hear as well".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mariefrance.fr/culture/expos/grenoble-pop-140037.html|title=Art in Pop : l'art pop dans tous ses états à Grenoble|date=8 November 2014|work=Marie France}}</ref>
== Personal life ==
McLaren's relationship with Vivienne Westwood ended in about 1980; their son is [[Joseph Corré]]. Subsequently, McLaren was romantically involved with Andrea Linz, who was studying fashion at [[Saint Martin's School of Art]]. Linz had been a member of the German pop-disco act Chilly and went on to become a fashion designer and model. Their relationship ended when McLaren moved to Los Angeles in 1985.<ref name="Gorman"/>
In Los Angeles, McLaren became the partner of the model/actress [[Lauren Hutton]] and they lived together in Hollywood for several years. Hutton ended the relationship in the late 1980s.<ref name="Knew">[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/dec/12/malcolm-mclaren-obituary-by-lauren-hutton The Malcolm McLaren I knew, by Lauren Hutton] The Guardian, 11 December 2010.</ref>
McLaren was then engaged to the fashion agent Eugena Melián, with whom he lived in Los Angeles and Paris. They worked on a series of projects together; it was at Melián's urging that McLaren recorded his 1994 album ''Paris''.<ref name="Gorman"/>
Subsequently, McLaren briefly dated the architect Charlotte Skene-Catling.<ref name="Gorman"/> Their relationship ended in the late 1990s when McLaren began a romance with Young Kim, an American woman he met at a party.
== Later life and death ==
[[File:Malcom McLaren's grave, Highgate Cemetery.jpg|thumb|right|300px|McLaren's grave in the eastern part of [[Highgate Cemetery]]]]
McLaren met Young Kim at a party in Paris. She was 26 and he was 25 years older.<ref name="kim2020"/>{{rp|34–37}} She moved in with him in 2002,<ref>[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6871472.ece Malcolm McLaren, the great rock 'n' roll swindler] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615074958/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6871472.ece|date=15 June 2011 }}</ref> and they lived together in Paris and New York. Kim was his girlfriend for the last 12 years of his life.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/7569123/Sex-Pistols-manager-Malcolm-McLaren-dies.html Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren dies]. ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' (8 April 2010); retrieved on 9 July 2011.</ref> She is the sole executor and heir of his estate.<ref name="kim2020"/>{{rp|235}}
He was diagnosed with [[peritoneal mesothelioma]] in October 2009,<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/mclaren-to-be-buried-at-highgate-1940730.html "McLaren to be buried at Highgate"]. ''[[The Independent]]'', (10 April 2010). Retrieved on 9 July 2011.</ref> and died of the disease on 8 April 2010 in a hospital in Switzerland.<ref name="obit" /> McLaren's last words were said by his son [[Joseph Corré]] to have been "Free [[Leonard Peltier]]".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/7572554/Malcolm-McLarens-final-words-revealed.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/7572554/Malcolm-McLarens-final-words-revealed.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Malcolm McLaren's final words revealed|first=Alexandra|last=Williams|date=10 April 2010|access-date=29 August 2020|website=Telegraph.co.uk}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
Tributes poured in from friends, associates and fans – including John Lydon, who had been at odds with McLaren since the demise of the Sex Pistols. "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," he said in a statement as Johnny Rotten.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/958676/johnny-rotten-pays-tribute-to-malcolm-mclaren|title=Johnny Rotten Pays Tribute To Malcolm McLaren|website=Billboard.com}}</ref> Steve Jones issued a statement: "I had a soft spot for Malcolm. I have known him since I was 17 before the Pistols formed. I used to drive him around in Vivienne Westwood's car, to the tailors in London. Malcolm was the [[Brian Epstein]] of punk - without him, it wouldn't have happened the way it did. I stayed friends with him throughout the years, despite some of our differences. My fondest memory of Malcolm, and I loved the guy, was his birthday present to me when I turned 21 - he got me a hooker and some heroin."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/nme-942-1289654 | title=Sex Pistols' Steve Jones: 'Malcolm McLaren was the Brian Epstein of punk' | website=[[NME]] | date=10 April 2010 }}</ref>
In a coffin sprayed with the slogan "Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die", McLaren's funeral was attended by Westwood, Sex Pistols bandmates Paul Cook and Glen Matlock, and celebrities such as [[Bob Geldof]], [[Tracey Emin]] and [[Adam Ant]]. The funeral was held at [[Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone|One Marylebone]], a [[Deconsecration|deconsecrated]] church in central London.<ref>Singh, Anita. (22 April 2010) [https://web.archive.org/web/20100425035704/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/7619616/Malcolm-McLarens-funeral.html "Malcolm McLaren's funeral"]. ''The Daily Telegraph''. Retrieved on 9 July 2011.</ref>
Bob Geldof later told John Lydon that, at the funeral, "there was a huge row between Vivienne [Westwood] and [[Bernard Rhodes|Bernie Rhodes]]. I mean, the man's dead – what are you people doing?". Lydon recalled, "And hearing this and the way Bob told it – so Irish and brilliant, so full of humour – I felt really, really sorry for Malcolm at that point. That these sods couldn't even let him die in peace. They were out for their own little angles."<ref>Fortnam, Ian: "Behind the Public Image"; ''[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]]'' #148, August 2010, p61</ref>
McLaren's body was buried in [[Highgate Cemetery]], North London, to the strains of the [[Sid Vicious]] version of "[[My Way]]".<ref name="obit" /><ref name="Former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren dies at 64 ">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8610423.stm|title=Former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren dies at 64 |date=9 April 2010|work=BBC News |access-date=8 April 2010}}</ref>
In 2012, probate was granted to Young Kim by McLaren's will, which excluded his son Joe Corré from the inheritance.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/9204220/Sex-Pistols-manager-Malcolm-McLaren-cuts-son-out-of-will.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/9204220/Sex-Pistols-manager-Malcolm-McLaren-cuts-son-out-of-will.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren cuts son out of will |work=The Daily Telegraph |date= 14 April 2012|access-date=2 August 2013 |___location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/why-sex-pistols-manager-malcolm-mclaren-wrote-me-out-of-his-will/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/why-sex-pistols-manager-malcolm-mclaren-wrote-me-out-of-his-will/ |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Why Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren wrote me out of his will|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=27 November 2015 |last1=Leigh |first1=Wendy }}{{cbignore}}</ref>
In April 2013, a headstone was placed on McLaren's grave featuring the slogan "Better a spectacular failure, than a benign success", a paraphrasing of McLaren's claim that the best advice he received came from an art-school teacher was "It is better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success."<ref>{{cite news|author=Amy Fleming |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/aug/10/malcolm-mclaren-musician |title=Portrait of the artist: Malcolm McLaren, musician|newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date= 10 August 2009|access-date=2 August 2013 |___location=London}}</ref>
== TV and radio documentaries about McLaren ==
''The South Bank Show: Malcolm McLaren'' was first broadcast on British regional channel London Weekend Television on 8 December 1984.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}} Directed by [[Andy Harries]] and introduced by [[Melvyn Bragg]] (who noted that McLaren had been described as the "[[Sergei Diaghilev|Diaghilev]] of punk"), the film hinged on McLaren recording tracks in America for his album Fans, and investigated his upbringing, art school years, and work with the New York Dolls, the Sex Pistols, Bow Wow Wow and others. Contributors included Sex Pistol [[Steve Jones (musician)|Steve Jones]], [[Boy George]] and [[Adam Ant]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0572229/|title=Malcolm McLaren|website=IMDb.com|access-date=19 June 2021}}</ref>
''Malcolm McLaren: Artful Dodger'' was screened by BBC Two in the wake of McLaren's death on 24 April 2010. Produced and directed by Jeremy Marre and presented by [[Alan Yentob]], the programme included archive footage and contributions from Joe Corré, Young Kim and others.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s7vvl|title=BBC Two – Malcolm McLaren: Artful Dodger|website=BBC|access-date=19 June 2021}}</ref>
''Malcolm McLaren: Spectacular Failure'' was an hour-long examination of his life and legacy first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 25 April 2020 to mark the 10th anniversary of McLaren's death.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000hmzx|title=Archive on 4 – Malcolm McLaren: Spectacular Failure|website=BBC|access-date=30 January 2023}}</ref> Produced by Just Radio, with whom McLaren made several radio documentaries, and presented by McLaren's biographer Paul Gorman, contributors included his friend and mayoral campaign manager Peter Culshaw and the British writer and cultural commentator Lou Stoppard, who said: "Malcolm McLaren served as a precursor to the boundary-blurring, genre-defying creativity that is prevalent today. His mix of intense ambition, excitement and engagement with an almost nihilistic, bubbling apathy is something that young people today can very much relate to."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000hmzx|title=Archive on 4 – Malcolm McLaren: Spectacular Failure – BBC Sounds|website=Bbc.co.uk|access-date=19 June 2021}}</ref>
== Discography ==
{{Main|Malcolm McLaren discography}}
== References ==
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|year = 2020
|author = Young Kim
|publisher = Fashionbeast Editions
|___location = New York, NY
|title = A Year On Earth With Mr. Hell
|edition = 2
|pages=34–37
|quote='...I was twenty-six studying fashion in Paris...he was a man twenty-five years older than me..."
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== Further reading ==
* Bromberg, Craig. ''The Wicked Ways of Malcolm McLaren''. New York: HarperCollins, 1989. {{ISBN|978-0-06-096204-3}}
* Brown, Dalia; Graham, Rodney; Hirst, Damien and McLaren, Malcolm. ''Malcolm McLaren: Musical Paintings''. JRP/Ringier, 2010 {{ISBN|978-3-03764-058-6}}
* Macleay, Ian. ''Malcolm McLaren''. John Blake, 2010. {{ISBN|978-1-84358-278-6}}
*{{cite book |last1=McNeil |first1=Legs |last2=McCain |first2=Gillian |author-link1=Legs McNeil |author-link2=Gillian McCain |title=Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk |date=1996 |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |___location=New York |isbn=978-0316881470}}
* Overbury, Steve. ''Guns, Cash and Rock 'n' Roll: The Managers''. Mainstream Pub., 2008. {{ISBN|978-1-84596-234-0}}
* Reynolds, Simon. [https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n05/simon-reynolds/serious-mayhem "Serious Mayhem"], ''London Review of Books'', 10 March 2022.
* Taylor, Paul. ''Impresario: Malcolm McLaren and the British New Wave''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1988. {{ISBN|978-0-262-70035-1}}
* Walker, John. [http://www.artdesigncafe.com/Malcolm-McLaren-Sex-Pistols-punk-music-art "Malcolm McLaren and the sources of Punk"] in ''Cross-Overs: Art into Pop/Pop into Art''. London/New York: Comedia/Methuen, 1987. {{ISBN|978-1-85178-016-7}}
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* {{IMDb name|0572229}}
* [https://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_mclaren_authentic_creativity_vs_karaoke_culture Authentic creativity vs. karaoke culture, TED]
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