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- Birth nameMalcolm Robert Andrew McLaren
- In the mid 1970s, as a young man not yet thirty, Malcolm McLaren owned and operated a London shop simply called "Sex" and dreamed of fame and fortune. He met a half formed group of teenage rock star hopefuls and fed them happy half truths about the great bands he had led to stardom. With his help in finding corner stone members John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) and Sid Vicious, those boys became the English punk rock legends Sex Pistols. The group met its ends less then four years later and McLaren walked away with a little bit of personal fame, but with most of his big dreams unfulfilled. Using his status as a legend maker McLaren would later manage such 80s punk influenced pop successes as Adam Ant, Bow Wow Wow and Boy George, and even release albums of music under his own name. Though Malcolm McLaren has never achieved the Beatle-mania level of fame that he so clearly strives for, he's never strayed to far from the spotlight. Writing, producing and always looking for new talent to show the world, hopefully for a profit.
- IMDb mini biography by: SilasT.
- Children
- Has a son with Vivienne Westwood, Joseph Corré.
- (December 16, 1999) Declares candidacy for Mayor of London, based on his "Manifesto for London" published in The New Statesman.
- Before managing Sex Pistols, he had taken control of the 'New York Dolls'. Within a year, the Dolls (who had been a successful proto-punk band in the New York glam scene) were finished. Among his "innovations" for the band was to dress them up in red leather outfits on a stage bededcked with Soviet flags and pictures of Marx and Lenin.
- Is portrayed by David Hayman in Sid and Nancy (1986)
- Lived with Vivienne Westwood from the mid-'60s to the late '70s.
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