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The Life and Times of Malcolm McLaren by Paul Gorman
Engaging biography of punk iconoclast, mantra: 'to be good is simply boring'
CASHING IN ON CHAOS: Malcom McLaren
DENNIS BROE searches the literary canon to explore why a duplicitous, lying, cheating, conning US businessman is accepted as Scammer-in-Chief
MIK SABIERS raises a glass of Lambrini to commentary, diatribes, punk rock riffs, some pontification and a whole lot of fun
BRENT CUTLER unpicks the complex social relations imagined in a novel about the builders of Stonehenge
SUSAN DARLINGTON laments a version of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes that is unable to solve its own problems
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OF ALL the characters who emerged from punk, Malcolm McLaren was one of the most enigmatic.
Born in 1946 he grew up in north London in a difficult family environment, where he was raised by his grandmother Rose. She exerted a big influence, providing him with his lifelong mantra: “To be bad is good, because to be good is simply boring.”
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