Malcolm McLaren RIP

Was hoping this was a put-on. RIP

Last time I was up in Manchester I was singing Fans' praises with PiscesX after a chance encounter in the Cornerhouse as it goes...

This is why I love ILX. No one in my real life likes (or has even heard) "Fans."

i like it too! let's form a fan club.

@jesshopp I never regarded Malcolm McLaren as anything other than the creepy svengali coaxing 14yo Annabella Lwin's nudity on BowWowWow covers. Sors.

14yo me supported him on this issue tbqh

well, i liked it when it came out a bunch. can't say i've heard it much since.

"14yo me supported him on this issue tbqh"

OTM! same here. i was totally in love.

Can't stop LOLing at 'repugnant appearance + Irish background'

I saw Bow Wow Wow in a club in the early 80s, and Annabella actually came out of the dressing room after the gig and played pinball! She really was remarkably beautiful.

She was stunning. Even now, she's still quite attractive.

http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/143/l_68546595c135440fb513e5077c6a863d.jpg

This is why I love ILX. No one in my real life likes (or has even heard) "Fans."

Doubt anyone anyone knows him in my real life. Let alone knows Fans.

This sucks royally. Yes, he was a jerk, but one talented motherfucking jerk. RIP, dude.

I testified in court against him a few years ago. He was one big visionnary asshole.

You shouldn't laugh but that is a pretty funny post.

The NY Times clarified their statement somewhat. It now reads:

"The band was fronted by John Lydon, whose repugnant appearance and Irish background inclined Mr. McLaren (as he stated in the documentary “The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle”) to saddle him with the pejorative stage name Johnny Rotten."

RIP

jessica hopper is a prude. she seems to derive a considerable portion of her identity from being offended by things that are, in the scheme of things, very innocuous.

so, she's sort of the anti-malcolm mclaren i suppose.

not to say this guy wasn't kind of a dubious psued. but he was a dubious psued that made some surprisingly good music.

thanks for weighing in amateurist.

lol for sum reason i got jess hopper and jessica harvell confused for a sec there

Jessica Harvell!

Way hotter than Jessica Hopper IMO.

It's kind of pretentious to be offended on behalf of someone who's no longer offended about how a dead person treated them.

As it says:

Statement from Johnny Rotten about Malcolm Mclaren "For me Malc was always entertaining, and I hope you (cont) http://tl.gd/ppp3e

Misread "cont" as something else there for a second...

stupid cont

In the summer of 1983, as a 12YO, I found the lack of pop music on Norwegian radio frustrating, and ended up listening to Radio Lux on a bad radio. Surely, this was 20 years after Lux's golden age, but for me, 1983 is the golden year of Lux, and also one golden year of British hitlist pop. I ended up listening to it a lot that summer and autumn.

What does this have to do with Malcom McLaren? Well, "Double Dutch" was being played on constant rotation on Lux that summer, and this strange song is largely what I connect with McLaren. Surely, I know his part in Sex Pistols, but never liked them, so for me it's more about his own work. Which was interesting in its own way with its combination of modern beats and electronics together with American square dance.

r u confusing "Double Dutch" with "Buffalo Gals"?

RIP. I will stan for "Madame Butterfly" any day of the week.

all the "he was an asshole, you know" commentary seems sort of point-missing to me. of course he way. who would think otherwise?

of course he WAS, i mean.

RIP

Also there's a time and place thing going on here. He may well have been a bit of a dick on occasion but, y'know, get a grip. No man's an island etc.

McLaren is classic for Duck Rock and Buffalo Gals and dud for the way he mismanaged the Pistols finances.

Tom Ewing, hero:

RIP Malcolm McLaren. Best troll ever.

"of course he WAS, i mean."
From what little I know about the guy, he reveled in being a scoundrel, so it seems weirdly appropriate to point out his greatest hits of scoundrelry as tribute, if nothing else. To this day I have no idea what his angle was with chiptunes. Truly a master player.

RIP Talcy Malcy. Playing Bow Wow Wow and Adam and the Ants just cos.

Tributes coming in from
Vivienne Westwood: http://www.nme.com/news/malcolm-mclaren/50581
Wobble: http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2010/04/09/sex-pistols-manager-malcolm-mclaren-dies-115875-22172162/

This is getting really sad now actually. I mean in the old fashioned sense :(

This is amazing, although I am biased: http://imomus.com/mclarencomplete.html

Rip and...

"Fronted by John Lydon — whose repugnant appearance and Irish background earned him the stage name Johnny Rotten"

...wooooah!

Fucking hell.

Obviously this is sad for all the reasons mentioned above, but whenever someone like Malc or Tony Wilson dies it does sort of highlight how people like that ("mavericks," for want of a better word) seem to give the music industry an extremely wide berth at the present time. Perhaps it's because there barely is any industry to speak of anymore. Unless I'm missing something/someone?

Gotta say that was a pretty classy quote from Mr. Lydon considering the battles he had with Malcolm.

Wasn't he to blame for the Pistols breaking up?

Pistols broke themselves up, but McLaren took all the money (through publishing rights, etc).

And the New York Dolls as well?

His wiki entry is pretty thorough: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_mclaren

The whole um.. 'Chicken' magazine episode is the real clincher for anyone looking for reasons to diss him but i mean.. let's not go into THAT.
― piscesx, Thursday, April 8, 2010 7:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

link?

farewell, you culturally significant piece of shit.

At about midnight last night I was skimming the obits and news online and thought 'That's really nice that they've got a Tim Westwood tribute on DiS. Good on them for thinking of the McLaren/hip hop connection.'

It was literally two hours before I realised that the quote was from Vivienne Westwood not Tim.

"Dis is well dark news innit bruv? Brah Malcy will be well missed, brap brap."

Evidence of the 'Chicken' episode seems to be thin on the ground because it never actually existed. But I seem to remember reading about the proposal in Smash Hits at the time. It was going to be a p0rn mag for kids basically.

RIP

RIP Malc :(

he looks good for his age, tho.

regarding mclaren being some sort of shady, untrustworthy character in business deals...

what did he actually do that was so bad? aside from kicking adam ant out of his own band. or is this just a rep he played up himself?

everyone seems to have behaved brilliantly over this, it seems to have brought out the best in all his ex friends ex enemies ex wives and whoever else. no one's had a bad word to say.

even NME has got it right, their best cover in *years*

― piscesx, Friday, 16 April 2010 06:01 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ha. will this image change every week now?

ah brilliant! i hope so. wonder why it does/ did that? how very 21st century.

Funeral sounds a laugh anyway
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/25/malcolm-mclaren-funeral-sean-ohagan

Ebert publishes Who Killed Bambi? to the web

hmmm.....

RIP

anyone else at this point in malcolm mclaren and the bootzilla orchestra's "call a wave" hear "women of ireland", e.g. this kind of bit?