RIP Malcolm McLaren

Former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren has died aged 64. He had been suffering from cancer and died yesterday morning (April 8) in New York. His body is set to be flown to London to be buried in Highgate cemetery.

McLaren was born in 1946 in the UK capital and raised in the Stoke Newington area of the city. He studied at art schools including St Martin's College Of Art and Goldsmiths College.



Prior to managing the Sex Pistols from 1975 to 1977, McLaren ran Let It Rock, a clothing store in London, with designer and then-partner Vivienne Westwood (with whom he had a son, Joseph, born in 1967) later re-named Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die, and then, most famously, SEX. It was here that John Lydon auditioned for the role of Sex Pistols' frontman, miming to an Alice Cooper record on the jukebox. McLaren also managed The New York Dolls shortly before launching the Pistols.

Following his management career McLaren launched his own musical projects, releasing the first of his albums, 'Duck Rock', in 1983, and having huge UK hits with the likes of 'Buffalo Gals', 'Double Dutch' and 'Madame Butterfly'.