Malcolm McLaren

"Better a spectacular failure, than a benign success"

Yesterday would have been his 73rd birthday and not content with starting a fashion boutique (Sex with the now legendary Vivienne Westwood), not content launching the Sex Pistols on us and not content in marrying supermodel Lauren Hutton (sic?!) he recorded his own music too sometimes with Bootsy or Catherine Deneuve, Francoise Hardy and Willie Ninja. . . . . . . . we miss you. In the tradition of the super eccentric Brit entrepreneur and art iconoclast Mr McLaren we salute you

Born on this day: January 22, 1946 - Musician, impresario, visual artist and designer Malcolm McLaren (born Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren in Stoke Newington, London, UK). 
Happy Birthday to this thoroughly unique and visionary renaissance man!! 

McLaren died in 2010 from stomach cancer

Bough this one when it came out (and a 12" too!) from his ground-breaking album Duck Rock.

Turn it up!


Hip Hop Puccini anyone!?



Produced by Trevor Horn, featuring Mahotella Queens.



Ever the opportunist and inveterate band wagon jumper, McLaren 'exploited' the craze for  African sounds specifically the SOWETO sound and the film by Ian Gabriel was never really finished 



Paris Paris



Malcolm chose this for his funeral, the tragi-comic Sid Vicious 'My Way'
 . . . . . and yes, I DID buy this single when it came out!

"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," 
John Lydon said in a statement as 'Johnny Rotten'.