'I couldn't put this book down. Malcolm inspired us to make art out
of our boredom and anger. He set us free' Bobby Gillespie, Primal
Scream Included in the Guardian 10 best music biographies
'Excellent . . . With this book, Gorman convincingly moves away
from the ossified image of McLaren as a great rock'n'roll swindler,
a morally bankrupt punk Mephistopheles, and closer towards his
art-school roots, his love of ideas. Tiresome, unpleasant, even
cruel - he was, this book underlines, never boring' Sunday Times
'Exhaustive . . . compelling' Observer 'Definitive . . . epic' The
Times 'Gobsmacker of a biography' Telegraph 'This masterful and
painstaking biography opens its doorway to an era of fluorescent
disenchantment and outlandish possibility' Alan Moore Malcolm
McLaren was one of the most culturally significant but
misunderstood figures of the modern era. Ten years after his life
was cruelly cut short by cancer, The Life & Times of Malcolm
McLaren sheds fascinating new light on the public achievements and
private life of this cultural iconoclast and architect of punk,
whose championing of street culture movements including hip-hop and
Voguing reverberates to this day. With exclusive contributions from
friends and intimates and access to private papers and family
documents, this biography uncovers the true story behind this
complicated figure. McLaren first achieved public prominence as a
rebellious art student by making the news in 1966 after being
arrested for burning the US flag in front of the American Embassy
in London. He maintained this incendiary reputation by
fast-tracking vanguard and left-field ideas to the centre of the
media glare, via his creation and stewardship of the Sex Pistols
and work with Adam Ant, Boy George and Bow Wow Wow. Meanwhile
McLaren's ground-breaking design partnership with Vivienne Westwood
and his creation of their visionary series of boutiques in the
1970s and early '80s sent shockwaves through the fashion industry.
The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren also essays McLaren's
exasperating Hollywood years when he broke bread with the likes of
Steven Spielberg though his slate of projects, which included the
controversial Heavy Metal Surf Nazis and Wilde West, in which Oscar
Wilde introduced rock'n'roll to the American mid-west in the 1880s,
proved too rich for the play-it-safe film business. With a preface
by Alan Moore, who collaborated with McLaren on the unrealised film
project Fashion Beast, and an essay by Lou Stoppard casting a
twenty-first-century perspective over his achievements, The Life
& Times Of Malcolm McLaren is the explosive and definitive
account of the man dubbed by Melvyn Bragg 'the Diaghilev of punk'.
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