Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm McLaren (2009)

Malcolm McLaren (actually Malcolm Edwards ; born January 22, 1946 in London , † April 8, 2010 in Bellinzona , Switzerland ) was a British artist, fashion designer, designer, music manager and musician.

life and work

McLaren studied art at Central Saint Martins College (1963), Harrow Art College (1964), Croydon College of Art (1968) and Goldsmiths College . He was considered an anarchist in his work and was influenced by the Situationists . He had in 1972 with Vivienne Westwood jointly Boutique Let it rock in the King's Road 430 in London , in the fashion of Teddy Boys was sold. In 1974 he met the New York Dolls in New York , whose manager he became and for whom he designed stage costumes. However, his engagement for the band was not very successful. Nevertheless, he was inspired by the punk movement that was budding in America at the time . He returned to London in the mid-1970s and renamed the shop there Sex . In 1975 he became manager of the band The Strand , which he dressed avant-garde and which was soon renamed the Sex Pistols . In 1979 he even credited himself with inventing the Sex Pistols in The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle .

After the end of the Sex Pistols, he initially managed Adam and the Ants , but quickly separated from Adam Ant and formed the group Bow Wow Wow with his previous band . McLaren himself appeared as an interpreter in the future ( Buffalo Gals , Double Dutch ). In 1983 he was one of the first in Europe to deal with hip-hop . After his preoccupation with hip-hop and scratching , which critics described as exploitation, he combined classic opera arias (Album Fans , 1984), (Album Swamp Thing , 1983–1985 Outtakes), waltz melodies (Album Waltz Darling , 1989) and French Chansons (album Paris , 1994) with contemporary pop music elements. As a result of his involvement with the Mbaqanga style from Soweto for the album Duck Rock , he tried in 1986 as one of the first to make this music known in Europe by bringing out the compilation Duck Food (Earthworks Records).

He owes his fame primarily to his enterprising propensity for provocation and scandalous appearances by the bands he manages. With the Sex Pistols, he never missed an opportunity to provoke the British royal family. B. by the performance of the band on a ship on the Thames along the Crown Jubilee procession. At Bow Wow Wow he had the then underage singer depicted as naked as possible on the record covers. He also showed skill in dealing with record companies and the media. The also musically commented expulsion of the Sex Pistols at A&M and EMI brought the band a lot of publicity, as did the invitation to home tap on the Bow Wow Wow records. McLaren is considered to be the pioneer of the commercialized punk movement that contradicted its original ideals and mutated into a mainstream music product.

McLaren, who later lived on an alternative housing project in Paris, published Buffalo Gals - Back to Skool in 1998 . For the illustrated book The Album Cover Art Of Punk by Burkhardt Seiler and Friends (Olms), which appeared in the same year, he wrote the foreword , quasi as the epitome of rebellious punk . His last musical project included the Game Boy with authentic sounds in the music. He withdrew his candidacy for the office of Mayor of London. In 2006 he produced Richard Linklater's film Fast Food Nation .

McLaren's gravestone in Highgate Cemetery, London

McLaren died on April 8, 2010 at the age of 64 from complications from a rare type of lung cancer, mesothelioma , in a Swiss clinic in Bellinzona. With his last words he is said to have demanded: “Free Leonard Peltier !” He was buried in Highgate Cemetery in north London. On his coffin was the slogan: "too fast to live, too young to die".

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1983	Duck Rock	DE62 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK18th silver (17 weeks)UK	-
1984	Would Ya Like More Scratchin '? (UK) / D'ya Like Scratchin ' ? (US)	-	-	-	UK44 (4 weeks) UK	US173 (6 weeks) US	with The World's Famous Supreme Team mini album with 5 or 6 tracks album title in DE: Scratchin '
	Fans	-	-	-	UK47 (8 weeks) UK	US190 (6 weeks) US
1989	Waltz Darling	DE39 (13 weeks) DE	-	-	UK30 (11 weeks) UK	-	with The Bootzilla Orchestra
1994	Paris	-	-	-	UK44 (2 weeks) UK	-

More albums

• 1985: Swamp Thing
• 1990: Round the Outside, Round the Outside (presents The World Famous Supreme Team Show)
• 1994: Largest Movie House in Paris

Compilations

• 1998: Buffalo Gals - Back to Skool (with The World's Famous Supreme Team vs. Rakim, Soulson, Da Boogie Man, KRS-One, De La Soul , T'Kalla, Hannibal Lechter, Burn One and Forrest Gump)
• 2005: Tranquilize
• 2009: Shallow - Musical Paintings

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks	[↑]: treated together with the previous entry; [←]: placed in both charts
		DE	AT	CH	UK	Dance
1982	Buffalo Gals Duck Rock	DE20 (13 weeks) DE	AT19 (2 weeks) AT	CH9 (5 weeks) CH	UK9 silver (12 weeks)UK	Dance33 (15 weeks) Dance	with The World's Famous Supreme Team
1983	Soweto Duck Rock	-	-	-	UK32 (5 weeks) UK	-
	Double Dutch Duck Rock	DE14 (17 weeks) DE	-	-	UK3 silver (13 weeks)UK	Dance47 (9 weeks) Dance
	Duck for the Oyster Duck Rock	-	-	-	UK54 (5 weeks) UK	-
1984	Madam Butterfly (Un bel di vedremo) fans	DE36 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	UK13 (10 weeks) UK	Dance20 (11 weeks) Dance
1985	Carmen (L'oiseau rebelle) fans	-	-	-	UK79 (3 weeks) UK	-
1989	Waltz Darling Waltz Darling	DE18 (12 weeks) DE	-	-	UK31 (8 weeks) UK	Dance39 (4 weeks) Dance	with The Bootzilla Orchestra
	Something's Jumpin 'in Your Shirt Waltz Darling	DE45 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	UK29 (8 weeks) UK[Dance: ↑]		with Lisa Marie and The Bootzilla Orchestra
	House of the Blue Danube Waltz Darling	-	-	-	UK73 (3 weeks) UK	-	with The Bootzilla Orchestra
1990	Deep in Vogue Waltz Darling	-	-	-	UK83 (2 weeks) UK	Dance1 (9 weeks) Dance	with The Bootzilla Orchestra
	Opera House Round the Outside! Round the outside!	-	-	-	UK75 (4 weeks) UK	-	pres. The World Famous Supreme Team Show
1991	Magic's Back The Ghosts of Oxford Street (Soundtrack)	-	-	-	UK42 (4 weeks) UK	-	Subject from the film The Ghosts of Oxford Street with Alison Limerick
1998	Buffalo Gals Stampede Buffalo Gals Back to Skool	-	-	-	UK65 (1 week) UK	-	vs. Rakim and Roger Sanchez

More singles

• 1979: You Need Hands
• 1982: Hobo Scratch
• 1983: World's Famous
• 1983: Double Dutch (New Dance Mix) (EP)
• 1984: Fans (Nessun Dorma)
• 1985: Duck Rock Cheer
• 1990: Call a Wave
• 1991: Romeo and Juliet (presents World Famous Supreme Team Show)
• 1991: Bird in a Gilded Cage (with The Bootzilla Orchestra)
• 1992: For Jean Charles de Castelbajac
• 1992: Carry On Columbus (with Fantastic Planet)
• 1994: Paris Paris
• 1995: Revenge of the Flowers (with Françoise Hardy )
• 1997: The Bell Song
• 1998: Buffalo Gals Back to Skool (presents Rakim )
• 2004: The Party - Yoox.com 5th Anniversary
• 2004: Foxy Lady (with The Wild Strawberries)
• 2004: Malcolm McLaren's Fashionbeast Party (EP)

literature

• Paul D. Taylor: Impresario: Malcolm McLaren and the British New Wave . New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York 1988, ISBN 0-262-70035-2 .
• Craig Bromberg: The Wicked Ways of Malcolm McLaren , Omnibus Press, London 1991, ISBN 0-7119-2488-0 .
• Jon Savage : England's Dreaming . Faber & Faber, London 1991, ISBN 0-571-13975-2 .

swell

1. ↑ Malcolm McLaren: hustler of culture: malcolm mclaren's fashion beast . Hustlerofculture.typepad.com. January 8, 2004. Retrieved January 2, 2009.
2. ↑ "Malcom McLaren dies from mesothelioma"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Free Leonard Peltier! Malcolm McLaren uses last words to call for release of American Indian killer , in: Mail Online, April 10, 2010
4. ^ "Malcolm McLaren is dead," taz, April 9, 2010;
5. ↑ Ulf Poschardt : Malcolm is dead, Situationism is alive
6. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: Singles Albums UK1 UK2 US
7. ^ The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
8. ↑ ^{a b} UK gold / platinum database

Web links

Commons : Malcolm McLaren  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Malcolm McLaren's website
• Malcolm McLaren at Discogs (English)
• Malcolm McLaren in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Interview from 1998 ( Memento from March 16, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
• Audio recording (English, MP3; 19.71 MB)
• 8-bit punk
• Interview from November 14, 2006 ( Memento from July 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• Article , De: Bug 128
• Obituary from Der Spiegel
• Obituary the BBC (English)