Malcolm McLaren, one of the most notorious svengalis in rock’s history and self-proclaimed inventor of punk, died in New York yesterday at the age of 64.
Malcolm McLaren died because of canser. His son, Joe Corre, said his father died of an aggressive form of cancer in Switzerland.
Corre added that his father was the original punk rocker and revolutionized the world.
Music journalist Jon Savage, who wrote England’s Dreaming, a history of the Sex Pistols and punk, said that “without Malcolm McLaren there would not have been any British punk.”
Born in London in 1946, McLaren was best known as the provocateur who managed the Sex Pistols, the band that sparked punk rock in the UK in 1976.
Under McLaren’s guidance they left behind a trail of controversy, including an expletive-laden interview on prime-time television and the banned single “God Save the Queen”, which reached number two in the charts during the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977.
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