Malcolm McLaren - Interview (Part1) Recorded Live: 11/4/1984 - Rock Influence - , More Malcolm McLaren at Music Vault: www.musicvault.com Subscribe to Music Vault on RU-vid: goo.gl/DUzpUF
His hair is an explosion. His attitude is bewitched by the frantic energy of St Vitus dance. And he makes joyous pronouncements about youth culture, and how it answers the absurdity of modern society. There is one Malcolm.
It seems people dont understand just how legendary of a character he is. Only time will see that Malcom McLaren is a gifted teacher of culture of the time and of the past and of the future!
He was totally on point during this phase. Like Rottens posh uncle! Straight shooter and bon vivant...I do miss his like. He literally gives you the whole MO about making a rock scene or cultural change via fashion and music. Articulate witty and brutally honest...study these 3 part video and create your own filth and fury!
No doubt,,,Malcolm was a genius,,,,,any intelligent person can glean that after 5 minutes of this dudes presentation,,,,he's a genius,,,,maybe a dodgy genius,,,but yet and still,,a genius" A Beautiful Mind" if I ever saw one,,,, Rock on Malcolm ,,,,RIP
Malcom was brilliant, charismatic, and highly influential. Too bad he felt the need to take credit for things he didn't do, because what he actually did do was extraordinary. RIP Malcolm Mclaren.
" They wanted to be this, Tutonic, blonde haired, lunatic aryan cosmetic sexual device" Wow, Only a unique individual with his intellect and way with words could form a sentence like that and Deliver it with such personality and punch. Malcolm was truely a one off, original, free flowing person who truely expressed himself in the moment. Always totally being Himself. Which is a incredibly hard thing to achieve in life. RIP Mr Mclaren, we miss your influence.
All that interviewer did was trigger this verbal assassin off into his perfect comfort zone and completely own the interview like a stage performance. A one man show and a genius. Pompous showboating upstart always tooting his own horn? Darn tooting right he was but a very clever one and a rarity. Unique and unrivaled.
It's too bad Malcolm gets so slammed by Lydon and others. As he really did have a good sense of knowledge and foresight. The Sex Pistols today is such a threatening but attractive name - alluring and dangerous. Had he left it up to the boys to be The Flowers Of Romance, or The Wankers, or Johnny And The Garbagemen - fuck no! Sex and machismo, in fashion, or the promise and/or threat of it hooks people in every time. Lydon and the others should give Malcolm credit for that at least.
he named them after his shop 'SEX' and the 'pistols' bit was just to represent the guys - it was a pure marketing angle for his store (as the band were decked out in the stores wares)
Who actually cares about how intellectual someone is because there will always be someone smarter than someone else????We are have individual intellect,Rip Malcolm your so very very missed.
I dont recall James Dean ever writing or performing anything Rock and Roll, he had a hand in writing some songs that Jimmy Ruffin performed but that could never be called rock and Roll. Watch the Steve Jones interview, in it Steve asks Malcolm "Have you ever taken a lie detector test?" this explains Mclaren perfectly, John Lydon wrote Liar and it was about Mclaren! He has been described by Lydon as a compulsive liar! When the people around him describe him as a compulsive liar, you have to take everything he says with a pinch of salt!
Fascinating interview.. one point of disagreement ; Elvis was inspired by blacks but I wouldn't say he imitated anyone. .. That said, Malcolm was obviously intelligent, knowledgeable and articulate. RIP
Just on the Dior story he mythologises there, the actual facts were Dior was representative of an occupying foreign enemy force who had just carpet bombed France. The French weren't buying what the Allies, of Bolshevism were selling, this gets reflected in Japan. In Japan, the All-lies needed to write a new constitution, which is still resented by Japanese today. At that time it was very much resented, though there maybe unscrupulous tie ins with the Emperor, and Sidney Reilly, who James Bond is based on, through the International Settlement of Shanghai, a city built by heroin dealers, called The Sassoon family. The many fishing villagers around where Shanghai was being constructed tried, and wanted, to kill the Sassoons, but the Sassoons started to ship in their confederates who had just been booted out of Germany, circa 1933-38, and were also streaming in from Harbin, another city they'd built for themselves, and even made it illegal for themselves to do manual labour. Back to the parallel with Japan and Communisms Capitalists, the Allies. They could not convince the Japanese that they were the good guys, so, they instigated a war to unify the Japanese against a cause they'd been battling, and that war was held in Korea, called the Korean war, of which the 53rd Parallel still stands today. Whereas, Christian Dior, may have been an unwitting party in the events, the 'Hollywood' 'stars' were all part of a propaganda machine to cover up sympathies to a France illegally carpet bombed by ambush style combatants. Hack, even 10,000 Jamaicans were drafted to join in, on the promise they would be greeted as heroes in Britain. Well, the nice friendly UK government forgot to tell the people of Britain about such arrangements and much fuss ensued. You can always tell a liar by how he starts licking his lips, while looking like he's trying to cry. Wait till you see what comes out about him with Afrika Bambaata...Not good!
@@christophernash1846 …..the point being there wouldn't be a PIL without The Pistols and there wouldn't be the Pistols without Malcom so..trevor is right.
What a strange person he truly was. I can't ever quite get a handle on who he was, or what he was all about. He said such odd things. It's strange as well that he talks a lot about people expressing sexuality, when he himself strikes me as being asexual.
*he needed to get the motor running before his mouth could vomit the typical superfluous rubbish he started doing in the late 1970s: - same old lines from the same old source about the same old things*
Isn't he! Don't know what on though. I'm thinking speed probably. Small dose of acid? What do you think? 9:23 - all the nose stuff and losing the thread. It's coke!
