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RIP Malcolm McLaren. In 1977, 'the punk year', I was 23 and heavily into jazz and thoroughly bemused (musically) and amused by punk. Punk, of course, was a major PR coup for Malcolm McLaren ('he had been attracted to the Situationist movement, particularly King Mob, which promoted absurdist and provocative actions as a way of enacting social change') and the Sex Pistols. Loved the anti-establishment stance and the whole rebel thing, but it was never me. Heard a Pistols record on R2 this morning and found it a good groove. Funny how time softens the blow... Nevertheless, loved both Buffalo Girls and Double Dutch in 1983. His resting place will apparently be in Highgate Cemetery, alongside Karl Marx et al.
