Requiem for a Malcolm
Now, also Malcolm is gone, and although many of us considered him as a crook, was still the brilliant crook of the Rock ‘n roll swindle, situationism record covers and the “commie” turning point of the New York Dolls.
All of them were ideas based on situationist tactics which challenge the media, in a much more subtle way than might appear at first sight: McLaren was definitely a character out of the ordinary, and we’ll all miss him a bit, even if we frequently said he was a dumbass and since a long time we hadn’t the slightest idea of what was doing in his life.
R.I.P.
A little we’ve found on the site Metafilter, which explains quite good who was this character:
About a year ago a friend of mine was contacted by Malcolm McLaren because he had made some weird industrial jewelry that Malcolm wanted to buy for some art gallery he was running. My friend asked me if I wanted to come out with them, which, of course I did. So we ended up at this place in the West Village, with Malcolm standing in the middle of the room yelling “champagne, bring me champagne” until someone did. At which point he looked at it and said “no, take it away and put a strawberry in it, love, I don’t drink anything without strawberries in it.” So the waitress took it away and brought him back the same glass of champagne with a strawberry in it. He took the strawberry out of the champagne, mashed it into my hair, and then drank the champagne. I don’t know what that is, but it might be style. RIP.
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