The Simon Cowell of the70s

who Dino?

Saw him when he came out to do his speaking tour in March of 1996. He spoke for well over 3 hours not a second of it was boring. went through all his ideas, motivations and inspirations. He talked in great depth about his role in the Sex Pistols saying they were only really meant to sell tshirts for his shop.

Beest part of the night was a idea for a movie he had pitcheed in the late 80s about Oscar Wilde discovering an early form of rock and roll on his visit to America

He is actually a bit of a hero of mine. Yes he's a cunt but a lot of what he has done inspiring for me

MALCOLM MCLAREN: THE GAME

Tuesday 18 March

2233-2330

Set in Parispace - Paris past, present and future - Malcolm McLaren: The Game sees our hero and the Game's namesake, set out in search of his true self, his individual identity, his free spirit, lost in the day to day grind of nine to five and his endless search for fame and fortune.

''Am I doomed to this grey, predictable life of work, work, work and what for - money…to pay the bills, to buy a car, the latest gadget a designer suit, a new kitchen…''

Living as he does, inside a dustbin, McLaren hears the voice of the Game challenging him… Does he really want to find his outlaw spirit?

''Yes, yes, get me out of here.''

And The Game begins...

With help and advice from fictional and historical figures, characters who have peopled McLaren's imagination over the years, he plays the Game, making his way through the different levels. Among his aides are Nadja, Christian Dior, Jean Paul Sartre, Claude Debussy, Edith Piaf, the Phantom of the Opera… he visits cyberspace, controlled by a teenager in a bedsit in the suburbs, conducts the orchestra at the old opera house, the Palais Garnier and even rides the rodeo with Buffalo Bill and his Wild West show at the Great Exhibition of 1889.

He enters each new level of the Game, following the cryptic advice of the various characters, hounded by his adversary, Boredom.

Eventually, McLaren enters the real world with recollections of working with Catherine Deneuve on his Paris album, along with the Sex Pistols concert in Paris in 1976, the heady days of freedom, before the group signed to a record company….

Malcolm McLaren: The Game is an epic adventure with a wall to wall soundtrack… this is radio in three dimensions.

One of my favourite songs in the 80s was Something's Jumpin' in my Shirt

I still like it.

One of my favourite songs in the 80s was Something's Jumpin' in my Shirt

Released in 1989, so not a lot of the '80s for it to be a fave in ;) But still, yeah.
What format would you like?!

Malcolm McLaren WAS the Sex Pistols

this is streaming on the bbc's site.

I loved waltz darling.

Anyone see the Filth & The Fury? The man should be shot.

He basically put the Sex Pistols together and hyped up Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious.

Bow Wow Wow were one of the most awesome bands to come out of the early '80s.

Bow Wow Wow were one of the most awesome bands to come out of the early '80s.

Seconded.

Bup Bup Bup Bup Bup Bup Bup B- B- B- B- B- B- B- All that scratching's making me itch B- B-B-B-B-B B-duck duck duck B- duck duck duck B-duck duck duck B-b-b-b-duck duck duck b-b-b-duck duck duck b-b-b duck duck duck

First Buffalo Gal go around the outside Round the outside Round the outside You know it Two Buffalo Gals go around the ouiside Round the outside Round the outside Th ree Buffalo Gals go around the outside Four Buffalo Gals go around the outside Round the outside Round the outside Four Buffalo Gals go around the outside And Dossido your partners

Sne's 1ooking She's looking She's looking just -just-just-just-just-just looking like a Hobo Three Buffalo Gals Three Buffalo Gals Th Three-Three-Three-Three-Three Buffalo GaI Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Three Three Three

Girl it's a pity that you're so dirty She's only dancing just to be friendly So pretty she drive me loco You're so silly you make me blush so-o-o Yeah Ha, You're my Buffalo Gal Yeah

It's a pity that you're so dirty You're only dancing just to be friendly So pretty she drive me loco So pretty you make me blush so-o-o Looking like a H-O-B-O Promenade-promenade-promenade - prom prom prom

First Buffalo Boy go around the outside Round the outside Round the outside - AHA Two Buffalo Boys go around the outside Round the outside Round the outside -AHA Three Buffalo Boys go around the outside - YOU KNOW IT Four Buffalo Boys go around the outside Round the outside Round the outside Four Buffalo Boys go around the outside And Dossido your partners Dancing-dancing-dancing-the Buffalo Dancing- Buffalo - Dancing the Buffalo Dancing the Buffalo - Dancing the Buffalo Dancing-Dancing the Buffalo Dancing-Dancing like a Buffalo Dancing like a Buffalo Dancing Dancing Buffalo Dancing Buffalo Dancing Buffalo Dancing Dancing like a H-O-B-O

One of the best early club tracks of the 80s..

World Famous Supreme Team - Hey DJ

Bow Wow Wow were one of the most awesome bands to come out of the early '80s.

adam ant may or may not agree.

oddly, there's a original copy of 'your cassette pet' - featuring the immortal 'c30 c60 c90 go' - just over by my non-working tape player...

oddly, there's a original copy of 'your cassette pet' - featuring the immortal 'c30 c60 c90 go' - just over by my non-working tape player...

Matmos did a cover of this recently, on an awesome compilation of split 7''s.

i think i neeed to hear that...

Nice interview from the Times.

Good read.

oh god he's still a massive, self important twat

goodbye to the ultimate wise-guy/pimp/zeitgeist man of 70s-80s pop. I really like Waltz Darling - and he got on to the Vogue phenomenon before Madonna!

That more recent album that he did on Paris though was an absolute abomination. I had to put it out on the street it made me so angry!

some one should make a literal music video of Duck Rock in his memory...

Like this?

Surely to the majority of people ''The guy who started the Sex Pistols'' is the only thing they could say on the news that would mean anything. Not surprising the mainstream media haven't launched into a lengthy emotional analysis of a guy many are probably only vaguely aware of

Surely to the majority of people ''The guy who started the Sex Pistols'' is the only thing they could say on the news that would mean anything.

True, but it's a big thing and it means a lot.

Should have been mayor of london.

Seen on today's SMH obit comments

''Whilst I acknowledge Mclaren's influence on culture, I still cannot stand punk at all. Bring back fusion and progressive please.''

Lol

Bring back fusion and progressive please

i didn't think it went away in the first place. muse, coheed and cambria, dream theater...the list of people with ''chops'' goes on and on. help.

weird that the guardian is giving mclaren more space online than nme

i'd imagine that these days the NME would have trouble remembering anything that happened before the first strokes album

Surely to the majority of people ''The guy who started the Sex Pistols'' is the only thing they could say on the news that would mean anything.

That's right that's why I was surprised they kept mentioning the New York Dolls, though not so much his involvement with them as his experience of them. Who amongst Radio National listeners would have the slightest idea of the NYDs?

Madame Butterfly, haha.

Who amongst Radio National listeners would have the slightest idea of the NYDs?

They were going for the obscure rock cred angle on the story, I think.

I could help but laugh at the b3ta newsletter's headline this week:

''PALLBEARERS GO ROUND THE OUTSIDE, ROUND THE OUTSIDE, ROUND THE OUTSIDE''.

but RIP.

__v said 1 day ago:
i'd imagine that these days the NME would have trouble remembering anything that happened before the first strokes album

Wasn't that the band Julian Cablancas used to be in?

Does McLaren get the blame for inspiring Big Audio Dynamite?

Negative.

I'm a Radio National listener. I know who the New York Dolls are.

But if you were referring to Fran Kelly's introduction to the piece on the breakfast show, well, I think that was Fran showing off her own music cred.

She was the c.1980 university bands booker par excellence and member of Toxic Shock (I think it was Toxic Shock).

OK, so this mix is all over the interwebs like a mad woman’s lunch, but it deserves to be posted here.

Creative vision, singular obsession and an ear for a great tune. Malcolm McLaren had all these in spades. Sure, the guy could be a giant douchebag, but at least he was aware of that and used it to his advantage, thus ensuring him a place in pop history. Oh yeah, mixed by Primo!

Malcolm McLaren – It Was A New York Phenomenon
Sex Pistols – Anarchy In The UK
Malcolm McLaren – Zulu Nation Party Interview
The World Famous Supreme Team Show – World Famous Supreme Team Show on (WHBI) #1
World Famous Supreme Team – Buffalo Gals
World Famous Supreme Team – World Famous Supreme Team Show on (WHBI) #2
World Famous Supreme Team – World’s Famous
World Famous Supreme Team – Do Ya Like Scratchin’? (Feat. Malcolm McLaren)
Malcolm McLaren – Let It Flow (Do Ya Like Scratchin’?) (Feat. KRS-One)
Malcolm McLaren – Seeing Bow Wow Wow Show (Live)
Bow Wow Wow – I Want Candy
Malcolm McLaren – 42nd Street
World Famous Supreme Team – She’s Looking Like A Hobo
Art Of Noise – Beat Box (Original Version)
Art Of Noise – Close (To The Edit)
Malcolm McLaren – El San Juanera
Yes – Owner Of A Lonely Heart
Yes – Leave It
Art Of Noise – Moments In Love
World Famous Supreme Team – Hey DJ
Malcolm McLaren – Shout Out (Feat. Burn One & Forrest Gump)

down

The day McLaren ransomed the ABC

Is she suggesting that McLaren physically attacked Delahunty? That's what I take 'beat up on' to mean. No mention of it further down though.