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FOUND: Sex Pistols Sid Vicious Vivienne Westwood BBC 'Sex' Tour (MY FAVORITE DOCUMENT for Malc)
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limbsandthings1 — April 11, 2010 — In a fitting tribute to the Father and Mother of Punk Rock Fashion, Watch this remarkably Rare Footage and Original King's Road 'Sex' Shop Tour for BBC's Derek Nimmo: includes VERY YOUNG JOHNNY ROTTEN, SID VICIOUS AND other Pistols. Only Network Footage featuring entire group and Malcolm McLaren's Partner (Now World Famous Haute Couture Fashion Designer), Vivienne Westwood (by which they had a son who runs famous kinky lingerie company, Agent Provacateur--its own name a tribute to Malc's most famous appellation and Situationist leaning).
Viv was McLaren's original collaborator and the Talent Behind His Promotional Genius and Punk Svengali This Rarely Seen Footage Inside The World's First S&M Bondage cum Punk Fashion Emporium (unless you count the two shops, Too Young To Live, Too Fast To Die and Let It Rock! whose combined essence paved the way for the fully realized dream and Pop Culture Explosion of 'SEX'--most notably famous for the Genesis of the World's Most Infamous Punk Band and Singer, Johnny Rotten (whose audition with a fake mic to an Alice Cooper song in front of the Store's Jukebox won him a place as lead singer for the Sex Pistols and in the history of Popular Music whose estimation has yet to be determined).
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(Listen MP3) Top-5 Malcolm McLaren Hits: The man and the music
BBC News entertainment reporter
McLaren had several hits under his own name in the 1980sMalcolm McLaren was often branded a genius - but those who knew him also called him charlatan, hustler, plagiarist, pirate and, in the case of Sex Pistol frontman John Lydon, "the most evil person on earth".
His impact on music, fashion, culture and the press was undeniable, however. Columnist Julie Burchill once wrote, "we are all children of Thatcher and McLaren".
He preferred to describe himself as an artist who used the media as his canvas, but McLaren's most notable successes came in the pop charts.
BBC News takes a look at five of his most important records - and what they reveal about the man behind the music.
SEX PISTOLS - ANARCHY IN THE UK (1976)
Punk had its roots in the US garage rock of the 1960s.
Bands like The Stooges and MC5 pioneered the seething malice and slashing guitars that were to define the UK's "Summer of Hate" in 1976.
McLaren had actually managed one of those groups - The New York Dolls - in the early 1970s, trying to shock audiences by dressing them in Maoist costumes and making them play in front of a hammer and sickle flag.
But it was with the Sex Pistols that he honed the punk image and, most importantly, made it marketable.
He dressed the group in the kinky clothes he sold with Vivienne Westwood in their shop, Sex, on London's King's Road. The band's new name (they had been called The Strand) was a crafty piece of cross-marketing.
The music was a mere afterthought. McLaren didn't even expect the Sex Pistols to be any good, he told The Times last year.
"I never thought that could be remotely possible. It never occurred to me. What occurred to me was that it didn't matter if they were bad."
SEX PISTOLS - GOD SAVE THE QUEEN (1977)
At art school in the 1960s, McLaren had written a manifesto: "Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates."
The svengali encouraged his punk proteges to personify that proclamation - and God Save The Queen was the pinnacle of their achievement.
Released with a characteristic sense of mischief on the week of the Queen's Silver Jubilee, it proclaimed: "God save the Queen / She ain't no human being / And there's no future / In England's dreaming".
The Sex Pistols only played a handful of gigs before signing a £50,000 record dealThe BBC banned the track and, if that wasn't publicity enough, McLaren arranged for the group to play the song outside Parliament (the "fascist regime" of the lyrics).
Their subsequent arrest only reinforced people's perceptions of the Pistols - both positive and negative - and the song ended up at number two.
It was beaten to the top by Rod Stewart's I Don't Want To Talk About It, although conspiracy theorists still maintain the chart was manipulated to avoid embarrassment to the Queen.
Six months later, the Sex Pistols fell apart - allegedly because of McLaren's plan to fly them to Brazil to hook up with Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs, one publicity stunt too many for Johnny Rotten.
The manager accused his protege of betraying the band's credo - saying he had behaved "like a constructive sissy rather than a destructive lunatic".
The chaotic dissolution of the band had, however, left McLaren with the spoils of two record deals, a sum of around £100,000.
His other manifesto, he later admitted, had been "cash from chaos".
BOW WOW WOW - I WANT CANDY (1982)
After the Sex Pistols, McLaren's eye for fashion fell upon the New Romantic movement.
He helped to style both Boy George and Adam Ant, and opened a flamboyant, pirate-themed clothes shop called World's End.
McLaren also claimed to have stumbled upon Ant's signature drum sound while working on a porn soundtrack.
The eureka moment, he told The Washington Post in 1989, came when he played the music of a Burundi tribe at the wrong speed.
"I thought, that beat's incredible. It was so powerful. I kept listening to it over and over again. And when I came back to England and took this job, working with Adam, that was the beat."
Bow Wow Wow's controversial artwork had to be replacedBut McLaren once again proved to be a rather incompetent manager. Soon after he took charge Ant's career, three of the band left to form Bow Wow Wow.
McLaren found them a vocalist - Lolita-esque Burmese-born Annabella Lwin, whom he had discovered in a laundrette.
The band retained the Adam Ant sound, throwing in Balinese chants, Zulu drums and Duane Eddie guitars - predating Peter Gabriel and Paul Simon's conversion to world music at the tail end of the 1980s.
Controversy was guaranteed when Lwin, then 14 years old, posed naked for the cover of the band's debut album - See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah. City All Over! Go Ape Crazy - in a photo recreating Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe.
MALCOM MCLAREN - DOUBLE DUTCH (1983)
McLaren was uncharacteristically modest about his abilities as a musician.
"I'm more of a director, an artist by contractual obligation," he once told the Washington Post.
"I'd like to be able to play something, but then again, I'm sure there are other people that can play it better than me."
McLaren's genius, in all walks of life, was trendspotting. He always had an ear to the ground, listening for the next big thing.
He claimed to have discovered hip-hop while promoting Bow Wow Wow in New York - although the image of the curly-haired ginger eccentric dressed in pirate gear at a sweaty Bronx party is hard to imagine.
Hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa took McLaren to the Bronx"It was like black punk rock," he said. "That was the inspiration behind my song Buffalo Gals which was the first commercial rap / scratch / hip hop record."
He was self-promoting, of course - Grandmaster Flash, The Sugarhill Gang and Blondie had already scored hip-hop hits - but McLaren's Duck Rock album (1983) was hugely influential in bringing the genre to a wider audience.
Buffalo Gals and its follow-up, the Caribbean-flavoured skipping anthem Double Dutch, were hits on both sides of the Atlantic, and marked McLaren's first appearance as a vocalist - much to producer Trevor Horn's dismay.
"He said, 'My God, you can't sing or even hold a note!,'" McLaren told The Times.
"'So what?' I replied. 'The record company's given us the dosh, so let's just do it anyway.'
"Afterwards he told me, 'I've learned one thing from you and it's that, with enough neck, you can get away with murder.'"
MALCOLM MCLAREN AND THE BOOTZILLA ORCHESTRA - WALTZ DARLING (1989)
By the end of the 1980s, McLaren's commercial sensibilities were beginning to fade.
His Waltz Darling album, which incorporated funk, disco, orchestral music and spoken verse, only made it to number 30 in the charts - but one element showed the svengali could still spot a burgeoning dancefloor trend.
Album track Deep In Vogue was about a dance craze sweeping New York's gay clubs in which participants would strike poses as if they were in a fashion shoot.
But it took Madonna to popularise the craze - with her hit single, Vogue, coming a year later. McLaren had finally gone head-to-head with an artist who had a better grasp of publicity than he did.
Madonna performing Vogue at the MTV AwardsTypically, McLaren claimed the pop megastar had stolen his idea.
"I found myself on the same bill as Madonna at some Greenpeace concert and I remember her watching my dancers voguing from the side of the stage," he said.
"A few weeks later she had stolen all my dancers, brought out her own single and carried it over into the mainstream. The cheek of her!"
The impresario's future career was filled with glorious musical experiments and excursions into film - but nothing ever quite equalled his glory days with the Sex Pistols.
"It is not a question of peaking. It is just very hard to top it," he told the Arts and Book review in one of his final interviews last November.
"Everything begins to look very small in comparison - unless you come to terms with the idea that small is beautiful you could be traumatised by that."
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Malcolm McLaren: No One Is Innocent - Sex Pistols: Steve Jones, Paul Cook, Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs (right)
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In June 1978, a song credited to the Sex Pistols, featuring original members Steve Jones and Paul Cook, was released. Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs (right) sang on No One Is Innocent, which was recorded in Brazil where he lived, immune from extradition.
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John Lydon and Vivienne Westwood (et. al.) Speak of the Devil: Malcolm McLaren BBC News
Figures from the music world and friends remember former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, who has died of cancer at the age of 64.
JOHN LYDON, MUSICIAN
John Lydon made his name as anarchic lead singer of the Sex Pistols, and was better known as Johnny Rotten. He signed his written tribute to McLaren in that name.
"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."
DAME VIVIENNE WESTWOOD, FASHION DESIGNER
Dame Vivienne Westwood was formerly McLaren's partner. The couple have a son, Joseph Corre. The pair opened the shop Sex together, which showcased her designs.
"When we were young and I fell in love with Malcolm, I thought he was beautiful and I still do. The thought of him dead is really something very sad. We hadn't been in touch for a long time."
JOSEPH CORRE, FASHION DESIGNERJoseph Corre, 42, is the son of Malcolm McClaren and Dame Vivienne Westwood and founded the lingerie brand Agent Provocateur.
"He was the original punk rocker and revolutionised the world. He's somebody I'm incredibly proud of. He's a real beacon of a man for people to look up to."
JAH WOBBLE, MUSICIANJah Wobble - real name John Wardle - was the original bass player in John Lydon's band Public Image Limited, and had known McLaren during the height of the punk era.
"You can't deny he was very important. He was a very interesting character. He was a likeable rogue. Not without faults, but we all have our faults. But the faults made him better.
The fact that he wasn't actually a very good businessman made it more fun. He had a great sense of fun. His sense of humour was a great redeeming factor."
JULIEN TEMPLE, FILM-MAKER
Julien Temple directed Sex Pistols film The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle.
"Malcolm was an incredible catalyst. At that time to be in the room with him was just to be bombarded with energy.
He was an amazing teacher. Teachers are lucky to inspire one or two people in their class, but Malcolm really inspired generations across the world.
He was a phenomenal force to be reckoned with in the late 70s and early 80s."
SYLVAIN SYLVAIN, MUSICIAN
Sylvain Sylvain, a founding member of punk rock band the New York Dolls, says he first met McLaren in 1971. The band are planning to dedicate a song to him at their forthcoming London concert.
"Malcolm opened up the doors for punk music around the world. He was a visionary and took what was going on in New York City and made it global. He was a massive influence on everyone who ever had a punk shop or a punk band. His passing represents the final chapter in an era when music was exciting."
JON SAVAGE, MUSIC JOURNALISTMusic writer Jon Savage penned England's Dreaming, a history of the punk rock movement.
"Without Malcolm McLaren there would not have been any British punk. He's one of the rare individuals who had a huge impact on the cultural and social life of this nation.
I hope he'll be remembered with fondness. He was a complex character, a contradictory character. He could be very charming, he could be very cruel, but he mattered and he put something together that was extraordinary.
What he did with fashion and music was extraordinary. He was a revolutionary."
TONY PARSONS, JOURNALIST AND AUTHORCommentator Tony Parsons wrote a tribute to Malcolm McLaren in The Mirror.
"Malcolm gave us our haircuts, our direction and even our clothes. He gave us our look and our swagger.
There was a destructive, mindless side to his nature.
The Sex Pistols could have been a great band had he not kicked out songwriter Glen Matlock and replaced him with the sub-moronic Vicious.
Such was life with Malcolm. It was usually controversial, and often wild. But it was never dull. I will miss him."
NEIL SPENCER, JOURNALISTNeil Spencer was editor of music magazine the NME during the 1970s and the first person to review the Sex Pistols.
"Malcolm was a loveable rogue but he wasn't always loveable either. One of this things was to outrage people and he didn't care how he did it."
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