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Love him or hate him, he sure was a one-off.

RIP Malcolm.

Sad to hear this met him a couple of times way back when so had an affection for the old rascal.

Has to go down as one of the least talented yet most successful people in the music business. How to get badly played shite to sell by the million.
However as a person his attitude was great.

Funny, I really couldn't see what was so good about 'Never Mind the Bolloks..." when it came out, but I listen to it now and it blows me away. I was 17 in 1977 for the record (which is an old type of CD yuk yuk yuk).

I thought McLaren played a seminal part in punk.

It's difficult to see how the Sex Pistols could have got as far as they did without his marketing skills. He also played a major part in the whole punk culture thing in his shop which he opened with Vivienne Westwood in the Kings Road.

I remember the punk scene as a breath of fresh air after the whole stadium mega group rock stuff. And unlike some in this thread I thought a fair bit of the Sex Pistols stuff like Anarchy in the UK and God Save the Queen was really great.

RIP Malcolm

David

Arginald wrote:

How to get badly played shite to sell by the million.


That right there is his talent. Sometimes the difference between real talent and those who are least talented is a bit of luck happening at the right time.

He was there at the right time and lets face it...The world needed The Sex Pistols like they needed their NWA's and any other radical band that pisses off the establishment because the youth wanted something abit more though tprovoking and rebellious than the likes of what pop was offering at the time.

They needed to feel soemthing that represented their nihilstic and anarchic views at the time.

I think God Save The Queen was brilliant!

Her majesty must have had a little chortle at it on the quiet, surely?

Oh yeah and the bastardised version of Frank Sinatras classic "My Way"

Classic!!!

I often wonder if Mr Vicious was some kind of genius in his lunacy. Malcolm McLaren had his hands full with that crazy bunch thats for sure.

Also, while I wasn't alive then and can't agree/disagree through own experience, at least some "historians" of music have kind of implied Sex Pistols and punk in general did very well because there really was a need for such a thing.

I guess you could say such things about some bands in the 90's, like Nirvana.

Yep. Red Hot Chilli Peppers too.

Mind you you can find a musical voice for ever decade and there was always a group that spoke for the young wily crowd.

The Stones or The Kinks were the bad boy equivalent to the popular Beatles and so on.

That heroin addict ex boyfriend of Kate moss is probably a hero to the millenium slacker generation who cant stand lady Gaga..Who I think is odd but a very talented lady. Most talented people are odd