Heavens! We have lost another legend...
Love him or hate him, Malcolm McLaren was a true musical pioneer. His penchant for New York's underground led him to try and introduce a new type of music from across the pond to the unsuspecting disco-and-glam-crazy UK in the 1970s - music that attacked old genres, refused to conform to rock "norms" and would never ever be featured on mainstream radio. That music - spectacularly unsuccessful at first, as the buying public largely ignored the likes of the New York Dolls - became known as "Punk".
Later seen for what it was (impressive marketing), Mr McLaren created the Sex Pistols, and paved the way for Siouxsie & The Banshees, mohicans, bondage trousers, Bow Wow Wow, Adam Ant, Boy George and everything that came afterwards. The world would never be quite the same again, thanks to him.
A sad loss indeed...
Malcolm McLaren obituary
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