IN MEMORIAM: Malcolm McLaren

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IN MEMORIAM: Malcolm McLaren

POSTED: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 10:00 PM

Filed Under: In Memoriam | Music

It's easy to forget that the Sex Pistols didn't form naturally, the way a lot of bands did, with a bunch of friends getting together and rocking out. No, they were made. And Malcolm McLaren was the guy who made them. He's the one who auditioned and hired Johnny Rotten to lead his band of "sexy young assassins." as McLaren supposedly, described them. (It's worth noting, perhaps, that Mr. Rotten credited MM's assistant, Bernie Rhodes, with "discovering" him.) McLaren wasn't only a band manager. Last year, Shaun Brady interviewed him about his photography, which was on exhibition at PAFA.

"Ultimately I was trying to re-create a whole history of pop culture within the basis of 20 or 30 tracks," McLaren claims. "I thought that by cutting things up, you wouldn't immediately receive something that would sound like a clichÃ©. You might have heard a bit of it before, but you couldn't quite figure out what it's doing with this other bit. ... That was kind of a cool way of grabbing the ruins of a culture and throwing them together and giving them some basic architecture."

Read the whole interview here.

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