Research Catalog

Title

The life and times of Malcolm McLaren : the biography / Paul Gorman.

Author

Gorman, Paul

Publication

• London : Constable, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Description

xxiii, 855 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

Malcolm McLaren was one of the most culturally significant but misunderstood figures of the modern era. Ten years after his life was cruelly cut short by cancer, The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren sheds fascinating new light on the public achievements and private life of this cultural iconoclast and architect of punk, whose championing of street culture movements including hip-hop and Voguing reverberates to this day. With exclusive contributions from friends and intimates and access to private papers and family documents, this biography uncovers the true story behind this complicated figure. McLaren first achieved public prominence as a rebellious art student by making the news in 1966 after being arrested for burning the US flag in front of the American Embassy in London. He maintained this incendiary reputation by fast-tracking vanguard and left-field ideas to the centre of the media glare, via his creation and stewardship of the Sex Pistols and work with Adam Ant, Boy George and Bow Wow Wow. Meanwhile McLaren's ground-breaking design partnership with Vivienne Westwood and his creation of their visionary series of boutiques in the 1970s and early '80s sent shockwaves through the fashion industry. The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren also essays McLaren's exasperating Hollywood years when he broke bread with the likes of Steven Spielberg though his slate of projects, which included the controversial Surf Nazis Must Die and Wilde West, in which Oscar Wilde introduced rock'n'roll to the American mid-west in the 1880s, proved too rich for the play-it-safe film business. With a preface by Alan Moore, who collaborated with McLaren on the unrealised film project Fashion Beast, and an essay by Lou Stoppard casting a twenty-first-century perspective over his achievements, The Life & Times Of Malcolm McLaren is the explosive and definitive account of the man dubbed by Melvyn Bragg 'the Diaghilev of punk'.

Subjects

• Sound recording executives and producers
• Musicians
• Biographies
• Sound recording executives and producers > Great Britain > Biography
• Musicians > Great Britain > Biography
• McLaren, Malcolm, 1946-2010
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 797-828) and index.

Contents

Prologue -- Boys will be boys -- Let it rock -- Sex, style & subversion -- I'm a Sex Pistol baby oh yeah -- World's end -- Wilde west -- 'That's my Dad' -- The casino of authenticity and karaoke -- Wild strawberries -- History is for pissing on -- Epilogue.

Call Number

JME 21-125

ISBN

• 9781472121097
• 1472121090
• 9781472121080
• 1472121082

OCLC

1153434391

Author

Gorman, Paul, author.

Title

The life and times of Malcolm McLaren : the biography / Paul Gorman.

Publisher

London : Constable, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 797-828) and index.

Research Call Number

JME 21-125