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On this day, January 22, 1946, Malcolm McLaren was born.
Malcolm McLaren
Background information
Birth name: Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren
Born: 22 January 1946; Stoke Newington, London, England
Died: 8 April 2010 (aged 64); Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland
Website: www.malcolmmclaren.com
Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren (22 January 1946 – 8 April 2010) was an English impresario, visual artist, performer, musician, clothes designer and boutique owner, notable for combining these activities in an inventive and provocative way. He is best known as a promoter and manager of bands the New York Dolls and the Sex Pistols.
Brought up unconventionally by his grandmother after his father, Peter, left the family home, McLaren attended a number of British art colleges and adopted the stance of the social rebel in the style of French revolutionaries the Situationists.
With a keen eye for trends, McLaren realised that a new protest style was needed for the 1970s, and largely initiated the punk movement, for which he supplied fashions from the Chelsea boutique SEX, which he operated with girlfriend Vivienne Westwood.
After a spell advising the New York Dolls in the U.S., McLaren managed the Sex Pistols, for which he recruited the nihilistic frontman Johnny Rotten. The issue of a controversial record, "God Save the Queen", satirising the 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.
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Background information
Birth name: Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren
Born: 22 January 1946; Stoke Newington, London, England
Died: 8 April 2010 (aged 64); Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland
Website: www.malcolmmclaren.com
Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren (22 January 1946 – 8 April 2010) was an English impresario, visual artist, performer, musician, clothes designer and boutique owner, notable for combining these activities in an inventive and provocative way. He is best known as a promoter and manager of bands the New York Dolls and the Sex Pistols.
Brought up unconventionally by his grandmother after his father, Peter, left the family home, McLaren attended a number of British art colleges and adopted the stance of the social rebel in the style of French revolutionaries the Situationists.
With a keen eye for trends, McLaren realised that a new protest style was needed for the 1970s, and largely initiated the punk movement, for which he supplied fashions from the Chelsea boutique SEX, which he operated with girlfriend Vivienne Westwood.
After a spell advising the New York Dolls in the U.S., McLaren managed the Sex Pistols, for which he recruited the nihilistic frontman Johnny Rotten. The issue of a controversial record, "God Save the Queen", satirising the 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.
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Love, love, love this tune:
Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
1,841 views•Jan 22, 2015
Rui Pereira
777 subscribers
God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols song) - Wikipedia
One more:
The Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The U.K (official video)
4,761,111 views•May 20, 2010
jaroshy
2.86K subscribers
Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant (with lyrics on description)
114,326 views•Jan 4, 2014
Thedieguitomusic2
8.32K subscribers
Lyrics:
There's no point in asking, you'll get no reply
Oh just remember I don't decide
I got no reason it's all too much
You'll always find us out to lunch
Oh we're so pretty
Oh so pretty
we're vacant
Oh we're so pretty
Oh so pretty
A vacant
Don't ask us to attend 'cos we're not all there
Oh don't pretend 'cos I don't care
I don't believe illusions 'cos too much is real
So stop you're cheap comment 'cos we know what we feel
Oh we're so pretty
Oh so pretty
we're vacant
Oh we're so pretty
Oh so pretty
we're vacant ah
But now and we don't care
There's no point in asking you'll get no reply
Oh just remember a don't decide
I got no reason it's all too much
You'll always find me out to lunch
We're out on lunch
Oh we're so pretty
Oh so pretty
we're vacant
Oh we're so pretty
Oh so pretty
we're vacant
Oh we're so pretty
Oh so pretty ah
But now and we don't care
We're pretty
A pretty vacant
We're pretty
A pretty vacant
We're pretty
A pretty vacant
We're pretty
A pretty vacant
And we don't care
I can't leave this out:
Malcolm McLaren - Buffalo Gals
1,021,060 views•Jun 8, 2018
MalcolmMclarenMusic
7.29K subscribers
Malcolm McLaren - Buffalo Gals (Official Video)
Music video by Malcolm McLaren performing Buffalo Gals. © 1982 Virgin Records Ltd.
http://vevo.ly/Ant3vK
