On this day, January 22, 1946, English impresario and band manager Malcolm McLaren was born.

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Malcolm McLaren


McLaren in 2009

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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I love, love, love this tune:

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I can't leave this out:

Malcolm McLaren - Buffalo Gals
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Music video by Malcolm McLaren performing Buffalo Gals. © 1982 Virgin Records Ltd.

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