Malcolm mclaren RIP
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- Mal0
- RW0
RIP an innovator
- stewdio0
CygnusZero4 says "So the 64 year old ex-manager of the Sex Pistols died? Ill be sure to shed a tear over this one."
Kingsteven says "This guy invented your attitude."
Yes, indeed! I LIS'd hard on that one. Well done Kingsteven.
- Of course he didn't invent it, moronic comment.comicsans
- 'of course he didn't invent it?' is a bit of a moronic critique. i was going to write 'popularize'...kingsteven
- but thought some idiot might think i was serious.kingsteven
- elvis was the king of pop; a small island off the coast of memphiskingsteven
- refunktion0
^ next thing you'll tell us that it was all for money.
- they were manufactured just like the backstreet boys.762mm
- know your music history facts.762mm
- and Sid Vicious was a fucking mommas boy.762mm
- ahh 762mm, refunktion was actually supporting your point.airey
- learn sarcasm.airey
- and lose the douchetastic bullet reference usernameairey
- Was he? You have to be careful these days. Sarcasm does not translate well online.762mm
- and especially for you Yanks, and no I wont switch names. It's in honor of your countries mantra.762mm
- i'm a kiwi living in australia so i have no idea what mantra you mean.airey
- i guess you're attempting wit and only getting it half right.airey
- and you're user photo is nologo book cover. jesus h christ on a bicycle. could you try harder?airey
- so you are a looney half breed from the mother country?762mm
- that's a fair enough description.airey
- and I prefer for people not to know of my personal life. A lesson some should learn.762mm
- or at least invent a false online personality.airey
- BTW 762mm, the US military doesn't use the 7.62 round anymore, it's been the 5.56 since Vietnam. Better rethink ur US bashingxcreonx
- USA bashingxcreonx
- taken from a famous movie where a soldier takes his own life because of the fuck twit military.762mm
- Yeah, Full Metal Jacket. Rifle was the M14.xcreonx
- dbloc0
did anyone see this extravaganza in action?
- boobs0
Sorry to see the old greasy tosser has passed on.
- airey0
the guy was a complete cunt. you'd have to either be under 25 or have no idea about who he was to think anyone is anything but happy he's gone.
- ksv1230
3 buffalo girls go round the outside.
great range of music
- DoktorDavid0
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_ne…
And for the fans and naysayers alike - McLaren was far from genius/brilliant, but he also was not stupid - perfect foil for his times.
- 762mm0
A very successful boy band manager. The Sex Pistols were a sham.
- vespa0
McClaren was horrible. Yes he changed the music industry, all the shallow, evil things about it were started by him. He turned pop into pedo porn.
When he put Bow Wow Wow together in the 80s, he told the 13 year old lead singer that the band wouldn't get anywhere whilst she was still a virgin. He then got the band to draw straws to determine who would deflower her.
He tried to start a magazine called "Chicken" that was essentially child pornography. He bullied said Bow Wow Wow singer into doing nude photo shoots for it, and photos have also been found of an 8 year old indian boy posing with adults wearing loincloths too small to cover their genitals.
- PonyBoy0
^^if that's all true, vespa...
... fuck that man.. and fuck everything he 'did for music'... what a piece of shit.
- kingsteven0
@ Vespa, I think you've totally misunderstood mclarren's aims. he didn't give a shit about bands, music, it was all part of 'punk' as he saw it...
Chicken WAS a child pornography magazine, a publicity stunt - an attempt to expose pop music as porn for children. He was using his status, Bow Wow Wow, Anabella Lwin's age to implement the media (particularly EMI and the BBC) in the scandal (much like the Jonas brothers/Disney South Park episode but 30 years earlier).
While I don't want to defend the fella; you can't take any of his work at face value (i've never read that virginity thing before)... Bow Wow Wow were a great group and Lwin was pimped out to pre-pubescent teens by the media without a moment's thought wether it was right or not (ask any 40 yr old about her and watch them swoon).
- kingkong0
"Ms. Westwood said last summer during an interview about her career: “When I became a fashion designer, I was helping Malcolm do something — which eventually turned into punk. I was interested in helping him attack the establishment.”
And their son, Joe Corre, who founded Agent Provocateur, told me, describing the McLaren-Westwood household, which also included his half-brother Ben, “We were brought up with the idea of being independent and making up your own mind.”
Today, of course, outrage is a readily traded commodity — nobody really gets fussed when a model prances down the runway in a pair of rubber fetish pants. We don’t see the point anymore. And how many fashion brands would dare to change the look of their stores every few years?
Maybe that’s why Mr. McLaren never limited himself to fashion."
- kingkong0
Malcolm 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".- yeah, but even Lydon has released a respectful press statement today.Wolfboy
- CygnusZero40
Who is he?