BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Full Name: Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren
Description: Vocalist, Musician, band manager, entrepreneur, songwriter, UK
Known For: Associated with New York Dolls, Sex Pistols
Music Styles: Rock, hip hop, punk rock, rock and roll, new wave
Location: United Kingdom
Date Born: 22nd January 1946
Location Born: Stoke Newington, United Kingdom
Date Died: 8th April 2010
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Malcolm McLaren
An English performer, impresario, self-publicist and former manager of the Sex Pistols and the New York Dolls.
In 1971 he began to design clothing, a talent he would later use when he became a boutique owner.
In 1968 McLaren had tried unsuccessfully to travel to Paris to take part in the demonstrations there.
Instead, with Jamie Reid, he took part in a student occupation of Croydon Art School.
McLaren would later adopt the movement’s ideas into his promotion for the various pop and rock groups with whom he was soon to involve himself.
In 1971, McLaren and his girlfriend, the designer Vivienne Westwood, opened a London clothing shop called Let It Rock on the Kings Road.
The shop sold Teddy Boy clothes and McLaren and Westwood also designed clothing for theatrical and cinematic productions such as That’ll Be The Day and Mahler.
McLaren travelled to New York City for a boutique fair in 1972 having already met the group the New York Dolls.
In 1975, McLaren designed red leather costumes for the New York Dolls.
By 1976, McLaren had started to manage The Strand, the band who would later become the Sex Pistols.
He soon convinced them to kick guitarist/songwriter Wally Nightingale out of the band and also introduced them to bassist Glen Matlock who worked in SEX.
Bernie Rhodes spotted John Lydon who was then sporting green hair. His appearance and attitude impressed McLaren, and Lydon, now dubbed “Johnny Rotten”, was brought in to audition as a new frontman.
Rotten joined, and the band was renamed The Sex Pistols.
McLaren’s future career in music as a performer (he performs the Max Bygraves song “You Need Hands” in the film as well as a manager.
In 1983, McLaren released Duck Rock, an album which mixed up influences from Africa and the Americas, including hip-hop.
Two of the singles from the album (“Buffalo Gals” and “Double Dutch”) became top-10 hits in the UK.
In 1992, McLaren co-wrote the song “Carry On Columbus” for the feature film of the same name.
In 2006, author Paul Gorman published his book The Look: Adventures In Rock & Pop Fashion with a foreword and contributions from McLaren.
McLaren met Korean American Young Kim at a party in Paris; she became his girlfriend for the last 12 years of his life.
She moved in with him in 2002; they lived together in Paris and New York.
He was diagnosed with mesothelioma in October 2009, and died of the disease on 8 April 2010 in a clinic in Switzerland.