Malcolm McLaren

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Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren, (22 January 1946 – 8 April 2010) was an English impresario, graphic designer, singer, fashion designer, and boutique owner best known for combining these interests in a new and innovative way.

He is best known as a promoter and manager of bands, the New York Dolls and the Sex Pistols. McLaren attended several British art colleges and adopted the role of French revolutionaries the Situationists, following his father's departure from the family home. McLaren, a keen eye on trends, realized that a new protest style was needed for the 1970s and that the punk movement largely spawned the punk movement, for which he sold clothes from Chelsea boutique SEX, which he operated with girlfriend Vivienne Westwood. McLaren supervised the Sex Pistols, for which he recruited nihilistic frontman Johnny Rotten after a stint advising the New York Dolls in the United States.

The issue of a controversial album, "God Save the Queen," mocking the Queen's Jubilee in 1977, was typical of McLaren's shock tactics, and he gained exposure by being arrested after a promotional boat ride outside the Houses of Parliament. McLaren performed as a solo artist, first promoting hip hop and world music but later shifting to funk and disco, the dance style for "voting" and integrating opera with modern electronic musical styles, as well as integrating opera with modern electronic musical styles.

When accused of turning popular culture into a cheap marketing ruse, he joked that he hoped it was true. He lived in Paris and New York City in his later years, and died of peritoneal mesothelioma in a Swiss hospital.

Early years

McLaren was born in 1946 in a flat in Stoke Newington, north-east London, to Peter McLaren, a Londoner of Scottish descent who was serving with the Royal Engineers, and Emily Isaacs, the niece of the tailor Mick Isaacs and the independently wealthy Rose Corré Isaacs, whose father was a Portuguese Sephardic Jewish diamond dealer.

When Peter McLaren left the family home due to his wife's repeated infidelity, McLaren's parents divorced when he was two years old. Sir Isaac Wolfson, the owner of the shopping behemoth, was accused of interacting with her lovers.

McLaren was raised by his grandmother Rose, who lived in the house next door at 49 Carysfort Road with her husband, and told the boy early in life that "being poor is simply boring."

His mother married Martin Edwards, a rag trade entrepreneur, in September 1951, when McLaren was 5 years old; together they operated the women's clothing wholesale trade company Eve Edwards, located at 117 Whitechapel High Street in London's East End. McLaren and his brother Stuart adopted the surname Edwards on his stepfather's request.

McLaren attended William Patten Primary School in Stoke Newington for a single day before attending the Dancing Foundation School, which was then located in Whitechapel, after being home-educated for a while. McLaren, a brother of Hendon, moved to Orange Hill Grammar School in nearby Burnt Oak, when his family was relocated to north London suburb Hendon.

McLaren graduated from Orange Hill with three O-levels and briefly worked in a handful of trades (one as an apprentice wine taster) before embarking on classes at St Martin's School of Art and then taking a foundation course at Harrow School of Art. Other arts institutions attended by McLaren over the next seven years included the South East Essex School of Art and Goldsmiths in Walthamstow, east London, where he was taught by artist/teacher Keith Albarn – who attended Croydon College of Art and Goldsmiths, where he studied for a fine art degree and produced a memorable free arts festival starring such performers as King Crimson.

McLaren became politically involved as a student; he was arrested in 1966 for attempting to light an American flag outside the US embassy in Grosvenor Square, central London, during a protest against the Vietnam War. He was also attracted to the Situationists, the European radical art movement, and was closely affiliated with members of the UK wing King Mob. Both these organizations promoted absurdist and provocative behaviour as a way of promoting social change. McLaren and Jamie Reid, a fellow student, were unable to attend the marches in 1968 and took part in a student internship at Croydon. McLaren later turned some of the movement's ideas into the promotion of pop and rock bands.

Personal life

McLaren was romantically linked with Andrea Linz, who was studying fashion at Saint Martin's School of Art at the time after the breakdown of his personal friendship with Vivienne Westwood in 1980, with whom he has son Joseph Corré. Linz was a member of the German pop-disco group Chilly and went on to become a fashion designer and model. McLaren's marriage came to an end when he moved to Los Angeles in 1985.

McLaren, a Los Angeles native, became the partner of actress Lauren Hutton, and the pair worked together in Hollywood for several years. "Malcolm was extraordinary," Hutton said a few months after he died. "Irreplaceable." I'll never miss him for ever. He was a dragon's egg, a rare species, and one of England's greatest unsung heroes."

In the late 1980s, Hutton ended the relationship to deal with personal problems, and McLaren was later introduced to Eugena Melián, a Los Angeles and Paris fashion consultant who worked with her. They worked on a variety of projects together; it was Melián's request that McLaren record his 1994 album Paris.

McLaren was later engaged by the architect Charlotte Skene-Catling, to whom he was also engaged, until the late 1990s, when his friendship with Young Kim began.

Later life and death

At a party in Paris, McLaren met Young Kim; she was his girlfriend for the last 12 years of his life. She stayed in Paris and New York with her husband in 2002, and the two lived together in Paris and New York.

He was diagnosed with peritoneal mesothelioma in October 2009 and died of the disease on April 8 in a Swiss hospital. McLaren's last words were deemed "Free Leonard Peltier" by his son Joseph Corré.

Friends, acquaintances, and supporters, including John Lydon, who had been at odds with McLaren since the demise of the Sex Pistols, poured in tributes. "Menc was always amusing, and I hope you'll recall that." "I will miss him more than anything else," Johnny Rotten said in a tweet as Johnny Rotten.

Westwood, Sex Pistols bandmates Paul Cook and Glen Matlock, as well as celebrities such as Bob Geldof, Tracey Emin and Adam Ant sprayed with the words "Too Young To Die" in a coffin sprayed with the words "Too Young To Die" McLaren's funeral was attended by attendees including Bill Geldof, Tracey Emin, and Adam Ant. The funeral took place at One Marylebone, a deconsecrated church in central London.

Later that day, Bob Geldof told John Lydon that "there was a big dispute between Vivienne [Westwood] and Bernie [Westwood] at the funeral. What are you guys doing when the man's dead?

"I heard this, and the way Bob told it, so Irish and brimming, so sad for Malcolm at this time." That these sods weren't even allowed him to die in peace. They were out for their own little angles."

McLaren's body was buried in Highgate Cemetery, North London, to the strains of the Sid Vicious version of "My Way."

Young Kim was granted probate by McLaren's will in 2012, but McLaren's will barred his son Joe Corré from inheriting his son Joe Corré.

In April 2013, a headstone was laid on McLaren's grave with the words "Better a spectacular failure, not a benign triumph," a A phrasing of McLaren's argument that the best advice he received came from an art-school instructor, "It is better to be a flamboyant failure than any sort of benign triumph."

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