Malcolm McClaren
Punk rock, Musical Artist
1946 – 2010
Who was Malcolm McClaren?
Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren was a British musician, impresario, visual artist, performer, clothes designer and boutique owner, notable for combining these activities in an inventive and provocative way.
Born into a dysfunctional family, he 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 in the 1970s that a new youth style was needed, and largely initiated the punk movement, to which he supplied fashions from the Chelsea boutique 'SEX', operated with his girlfriend Vivienne Westwood. After a spell advising the New York Dolls in the US, McLaren managed the Sex Pistols, to whom he recruited the charismatic frontman Johnny Rotten. The issue of a controversial record, "God Save the Queen", satirising the Queen's Jubilee was typical of McLaren's shock-tactics, and he gained publicity by being arrested after a promotional boat trip outside the Houses of Parliament.
McLaren also performed as a solo artist, initially popularising hip hop and world music and later diversifying into funk and disco, the dance fashion for "vogueing" and merging opera with contemporary electronic musical forms.
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- Born
- Jan 22, 1946
Stoke Newington - Also known as
- McLaren
- Malcom McLaren
- McLaren, Malcolm
- Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren
- Parents
- Spouses
- Young Kim
( - 2010/04/08) - Vivienne Westwood
- Jocelyn Hakim
- Young Kim
- Children
- Nationality
- England
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Goldsmiths College
- Lived in
- London
- Died
- Apr 8, 2010
Bellinzona - Resting place
- Highgate Cemetery
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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