# Whoa! Malcolm McLaren (scene-maker and Sex Pistols manager) just died! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 8, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-malcolm-mclaren-scene-maker-and-sex-pistols-manager-just-died/535454 "2010-04-08T20:31:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-malcolm-mclaren-scene-maker-and-sex-pistols-manager-just-died/535454/1 "2010-04-08T20:31:25Z")
[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36277663/ns/entertainment-music/](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36277663/ns/entertainment-music/) What a trouble-maker - in every great sense of the word… ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-malcolm-mclaren-scene-maker-and-sex-pistols-manager-just-died/535454/2 "2010-04-08T20:38:39Z")
Bollocks ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-malcolm-mclaren-scene-maker-and-sex-pistols-manager-just-died/535454/3 "2010-04-08T21:01:02Z")
I remember reading about Malcom in Jon Savage’s book, England’s Dreaming. He went from owning a clothing shop to discovering/creating the Pistols and sending them on their legendary tour of the US…and that was just the beginning. One of the iconic characters of the punk movement. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-malcolm-mclaren-scene-maker-and-sex-pistols-manager-just-died/535454/4 "2010-04-08T21:32:04Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > I remember reading about Malcom in Jon Savage’s book, England’s Dreaming. He went from owning a clothing shop to discovering/creating the Pistols and sending them on their legendary tour of the US…and that was just the beginning. One of the iconic characters of the punk movement. Before then, he was involved in taking over and managing the New York Dolls when they weren’t living up to their promise album-sales-wise. He tried remaking them in some sort of red communist sort of way to be provocative… …he was all about provocative, that’s for sure… ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-malcolm-mclaren-scene-maker-and-sex-pistols-manager-just-died/535454/5 "2010-04-09T02:43:08Z")
Fuck Fuck FUCK! Damn! DAMN! He has such a history of working with female vocalists, I always hoped he would one day work with Kate Bush and/or HTR. McLaren was known to me for a lot more than just the Sex Pistols and New York Dolls. There are so many songs I love, many that unfortunately aren’t on YouTube. This is my favorite song by him. I just love the groove and ah-ah-I, ah-ah-I vocals she does. [“Call A Wave”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmtOSW5fPtE) with Gina Cie on vocals. The exquisite [“Madame Butterfly”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY96bEZTSTc). (that’s the full audio-only version, longer and much better-sounding than the better-known [official video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Drw2_HmK0).) I love this! [“Paris Lutece Paname”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOaIos7bZkQ) I’m not familiar enough with this version to know who the female vocalist is, but I love her. It looks like this is from the soundtrack of a TV novela. Here’s the same song but with [Catherine Deneuve](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-E7s9vZ-_o). I’m sure the music’s the same but the vocals are different. I just discovered these on YouTube and I’m still getting to know them. I totally missed out on the album Paris! I have some catching up to do. [“Revenge of the Flowers”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXVnjm-jrXc) with Francois Hardy [“Aria On Air”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ_Ep8i-Uh0) (different take on “The Flower Duet” from Delibes’ opera Lakme, with Yanni!) This fantastic cover of [“About Her”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6049LDtBFrg) used in Kill Bill Vol. 2. According to [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_McLaren), that’s Esther Bigeou’s “St. Louis Blues” sampled there. [“Double Dutch”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt6Co7EMNCU) Not a favorite song or anything, but I do like it, and I just think it’s cool that these jump ropers have a song written about them. They’re phenomenal! I can’t find another favorite song from Waltz Darling, but I have to at least share the title because it makes me smile: “Algernon’s Simply Awfully Good At Algebra” 😃 RIP Malcolm. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-malcolm-mclaren-scene-maker-and-sex-pistols-manager-just-died/535454/6 "2010-04-09T03:21:10Z")
I bought and read [The Wicked Ways Of Malcom McLaren](http://www.amazon.com/Wicked-Ways-Malcolm-McLaren/dp/0060962046) 20 years ago. Recently, from time to time, I’ve thought of digging it out and reading it again. ---
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-malcolm-mclaren-scene-maker-and-sex-pistols-manager-just-died/535454/7 "2010-04-09T04:24:00Z")
Oddly, I just became a huge fan of Bow Wow Wow (like 2 weeks ago), and added Malcolm McLaren to my list of personal heroes. My friend says he blames me for his death, even though it was technically due to cancer. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-malcolm-mclaren-scene-maker-and-sex-pistols-manager-just-died/535454/8 "2010-04-09T07:46:36Z")
Not sure what he was like as a person, but definitely had a big influence on a lot of the music I was into in my youth. Sorry to see him pass on. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-malcolm-mclaren-scene-maker-and-sex-pistols-manager-just-died/535454/9 "2010-04-09T09:41:05Z")
His greatest work. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zcc3mgXnUzY/hqdefault.jpg "Malcolm McLaren - Something's Jumping in my Shirt") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcc3mgXnUzY) Something’s jumping alright but it’s not in my shirt 😉