Malcolm Mclaren Dead
Cold Stomper | 08.04.2010 19:34 | Culture
Malcolm Mclaren has died today age 64.
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I met Mclaren in '72 When at the time he had a Shop in Kings Rd
Selling Teddy Boy clothes, records, Brothel Creepers etc.
I bought off him 'Summertime Blues..Eddie Cochrane' for 75p
Quite expensive I recall..He wouldnt Haggle !!
The Shop Later changed it's name to SEX..Selling torn Clothing
etc which was already a fashion in the New York Disco scene of 76.
He then went on to Form and Manage the Sex Pistols and
getting them to wear some of the Ted clothing he was keen to
get rid of.
McLaren was a Student of the the Situationist Movement...
the work and Philosophy of Guy Debord..
In this work Debord Describes that Life has become a Series
Of Spectacles..( one has come to expect a Spectacle )
EG: War, Scandle, bent poletions, gary glitter etc etc.
He created the Sex Pistols as a Series of Spectacles,
God Save the Queen, recorded at the time of the Jubilee etc etc..
As with any Spectacle..It soon wares out and people want
Another one.
So in the End The Spectacle which was Malcolm Mclaren has
Now Faded.
Cold Stomper
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Sell out, egotistical, pretenious capatilist wanker....
08.04.2010 19:59
aunty capitalist
Compared to
08.04.2010 21:59
afed
popular kulture - rich pickings for vultures
08.04.2010 22:49
aside from that, Malcolm McLaren always was both a genius and a pretentious capitalist sell-out
The Pistols were a highly thoughtful situationist specakle - completely overhauling popular kulture in 1977 as the foremost punk band of that new musical era at that time .. shame that the anarcho-nihilism they ultimately represented formed the larger trend in that punk scene, with the effect on popular kulture that these ideas stirred up metamorphosing into rampant loads-a-money individualism in the 80s, opening up popular support for the free-market which catalysed the turbo capitalism of the Thatcher years. Anarcho-fascism/nihilism transformed into the new feudalism of casino capitalism
johnny & the hurricanes
ROCKIT
08.04.2010 23:33
RIP
ivor Had-Enough.com
so long!
09.04.2010 04:38
anyway if there was sex pistols,
then no crass,
no crass means no indymedia.
fact!
take care malcom thanks for making the 70s and 80s interesting!
sfdfgdg
I'd happily...
09.04.2010 08:07
Rudeboy
I remember the tabloid hysteria
09.04.2010 09:30
Malcolm and his Sex Pistols act freaked middle-England out so much in the late 70's that they returned a Tory government in '79.
Bri Stolian
McLaren not the inventor of everything good in popular music shock
09.04.2010 20:03
Really? I'd have pegged them at about the same level - extremely fortunate chancers who managed to hang on to the coat tails of one talented group on individuals. You can keep them both for me.
Slacker
One other thing
09.04.2010 20:05
Slacker
McLaren was the 1st to bring hip-hop into the UK music scene
09.04.2010 23:29
sister ray
pistols fan, for my sins...
15.04.2010 08:37
Anyone who hasn't had their head stuffed up their arse for the past 34years knows that he did.
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