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[[Image:Malcolm McLaren - You Need Hands single picture cover.jpg|thumb|right|The picture cover of McLaren's 1979 single: ''You Need Hands'' - taken from the film ''[[The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle]]'']]
== Early years ==
McLaren was raised by his grandmother, Rose Corre who home schooled him until 1955. He went on to attend several English [[Art College]]s through the 1960's, being expelled from several before leaving school in 1971. It was during this time he began to design clothing, a talent he would later utilize when he became boutique owner.
He had been attracted to the [[Situationist International]] movement, which promoted absurdist and provocative actions as a way of enacting social change. In 1968 McLaren had tried unsuccessfully to travel to [[Paris]] to take part in the demonstrations there. McLaren would later adopt Situationist ideas into his promotion for the various pop and rock groups he was soon to become involved with.
== Seminal involvement in music promotion ==
McLaren and a business partner [[Vivienne Westwood]] opened a [[London]] clothing boutique in 1972, and the pair were also designing clothing for theatrical and cinematic productions, such as [[That'll Be The Day]] and [[Mahler]] (both 1974). McLaren travelled to [[New York City]] for a boutique fair in 1974 and it was there that he first saw the [[New York Dolls]]. He convinced the band that he could do a better job of managing and promoting them and soon designed red leather costumes for them and utilized a Soviet style hammer & sickle motif for there stage show as a provactive feature in promoting them. This ploy was not successful and the Doll's soon broke up. However, it was while he was managing the Dolls that he first saw the [[Neon Boys]] perform. The Neon Boys included [[Tom Verlaine]] and [[Richard Hell]], who were to later form [[Television (band)|Television]]. In may 1975 McLaren returned to England after the Doll's breakup and began managing his new London boutique SEX with his partner Westwood.
McLaren had been greatly impressed with Hell's torn clothing, studded dog collars and [[leather jacket]]s, and with Hell's dissolute attitude. According to Hell, McLaren approached him and Verlaine about being their manager, but they were not interested. When McLaren returned to London he began looking for young musicians whom he could mold into this "punk" image and soon found a likely candidate in a SEX customer, [[John Lydon]], who was to become [[Johnny Rotten]]. McLaren put Lydon together with [[Steve Jones]], [[Paul Cook]] and [[Glen Matlock]] and named the group the [[Sex Pistols]]. McLaren had appropriated/borrowed much of Richard Hell's look to give to this new group.
McLaren utilized Situationist tactics in promoting the band and was able to keep them, more or less constantly in the medias eye for the better part of three years. In 1977 plans were made to make a cinematic record of the group and McLarens role in managing them, a film that was later released in 1979 as [[The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle]]. The sountrack of this album was released and contains McLarens debut as a singer, on the track "You Need Hands".
The Sex Pistols were a notorious band in the U.K. but McLaren arranged for them to tour the [[United States of America|U.S.]]. The final show of the tour was booked for [[San Francisco]] and right after this, the band broke up. McLaren proceeded to look for his "next big thing".
== Later career ==
During the early [[1980s]] he assembled and managed the [[Burundi]] influenced pop group [[Bow Wow Wow]]. He is also sometimes credited with developing the talents of [[Adam Ant]] and [[Boy George]].
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*[[List of number-one dance hits (United States)]]
*[[List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart]]
== External citations ==
McLaren Vh1 Biography[http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/mclaren_malcolm/bio.jhtml]
[[Category:1946 births|McLaren, Malcolm]]
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