Egotistical svengali with a penchant for rewriting history or godfather of punk and underrated creator of a surprisingly eclectic mix of tunes (embracing everything from hip hop and opera to the currently in vogue...actually he pushed 'voguing' too didn't he...8-bit movement which he championed all the way back in 2003)? I favour the second definition of Malcolm McLaren myself. Inevitably even those who’ve been rather critical of him in the past (especially the butter bothering Mr Lydon) have come out to pay their respects. I doubt whether the Pistols would have got very far without him and, even though they weren’t the first ‘punk’ band by a long shot, without them our musical and cultural landscape would be a far blander place. In tribute to their mentor here’s an often forgotten McClaren classic, ‘Waltz Dancing’, from his Bootzilla Orchestra days way back in 1989.
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