{"id":1994,"date":"2006-07-08T12:28:18","date_gmt":"2006-07-08T16:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blg\/2006\/07\/08\/culture-byte-malcolm-mclaren\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:57:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:57:09","slug":"culture-byte-malcolm-mclaren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/08\/culture-byte-malcolm-mclaren\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture byte: Malcolm McLaren"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.flickr-photo { }\n.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/edieshots\/87837519\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/37\/87837519_5d512b753d_t.jpg\" width=\"100\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"mc laren\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/m-c\/185050349\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/71\/185050349_796c246bc6_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"220\" alt=\"Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/m-c\/185050347\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/60\/185050347_90914c5658_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"148\" alt=\"Malcolm McLaren's Bow wow wow cover\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Malcolm McLaren (born 22 January 1946) is an English impresario and <u>self-publicist<\/u> who is best known as being the manager of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nHe had been attracted to the Situationist International movement, which promoted absurdist and provocative actions as a way of enacting social change.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nIn 1971 McLaren and his partner, the designer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vivienne_Westwood\">Vivienne Westwood<\/a>, opened a London clothing shop called <i>Let It Rock<\/i> on the Kings Road. The shop sold Teddy Boy clothes and McLaren and Westwood also designed clothing for theatrical and cinematic productions<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nMcLaren travelled to New York City for a boutique fair in 1974 and it was there that he first saw the New York Dolls. He convinced the band that he could do a better job of managing and promoting them. McLaren designed red leather costumes for the group and utilized a Soviet style hammer and sickle motif for their stage show as a provocative feature in promoting them.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nBy 1975 McLaren had started to manage The Strand, the band who would later become the Sex Pistols.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nHis solo career has been highly innovative and conceptual, with each album representing a new idea or musical novelty, similar to later years career of Madonna, though several years ahead of her style changes.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nIn 1983 McLaren released Duck Rock, an album which mixed up influences from Africa and America, including hip-hop. The album proved to be highly influential in bringing hip-hop to a wider audience in the UK. Two of the singles from the album (&#8220;Buffalo Gals&#8221; and &#8220;Double Dutch&#8221;) became major chart hits on both sides of the Atlantic.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nHe then turned his eyes to electronic music and opera in the UK top-20 single, Madame Butterfly, based on the opera. The track is arranged with drum machines, atmospheric synthesizers and spoken verses &#8211; a format which was the blueprint for house music-inspired songs by bands like Pet Shop Boys (and especially their 1986 single West End Girls, New Order and Beloved.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nIn 1998, he created a band called Jungk, consisting of three Asian females intended to emulate appeal of the then popular Spice Girls. However, this project was not a commercial success.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nIn the 70s, McLaren and his wife were devotees of Macrobiotics, the radical vegan diet.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malcolm_McLaren\">from Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm McLaren (born 22 January 1946) is an English impresario and self-publicist who is best known as being the manager of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. &#8230; He had been attracted to the Situationist International movement, which promoted absurdist and provocative actions as a way of enacting social change. &#8230; In 1971 McLaren&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/08\/culture-byte-malcolm-mclaren\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Culture byte: Malcolm McLaren<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8901,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/8901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}