Malcolm McLaren

McLaren was less a musician than a provocateur with a genius for lighting fuses. Managing the Sex Pistols, the New York Dolls and Bow Wow Wow, he understood that culture moves on friction, and he supplied it eagerly. I don't always agree with his methods, and plenty of his moves were pure mischief, but I can't deny his eye for the moment a subculture is about to ignite. He treated chaos as an art form and the music industry as raw material. He died in 2010, yet that scratchy, agitating presence still runs through punk's DNA. A true instigator.

Name (English)

Malcolm McLaren

Name (Japanese)

マルコム・マクラーレン

Reading

まるこむ・まくらーれん

Born

January 22, 1946 – April 8, 2010

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Dog

Origin

Stoke Newington, United Kingdom

Occupation

singer / screenwriter / songwriter / talent agent / record producer

University

Goldsmiths, University of London

• Official sitehttps://www.malcolmmclaren.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm%20McLaren
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q325377

Tags

• singer
• screenwriter
• songwriter

Last updated

2026-06-17

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