【Dread:】 Punk's father Malcolm McLaren dies at a Swiss hospital due to mesothelioma

Also known as the creator of Sex Pistols and former partner of designer Vivienne WestwoodMalcolm McLarenMr. April 8, 2010,Malignant mesotheliomaIt is said that he died at a Swiss hospital who is being treated by a cancer (a kind of cancer). He was 64 years old.

Details are as below.Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren dies - Telegraph

Malcolm McLaren dies aged 64 | Mail Online

According to Young Kim, a 37 - year - old girlfriend, Mr. McLaren said that he had not published what was diagnosed as mesothelioma a while ago, Mr. McLaren visited New York for the promotion of a new book in February Because he returned to Switzerland, he died in a Swiss hospital. Mr. McLaren and Kim are said to have lived mainly in New York and Paris over the past few years.

Kim says, "He died in a Swiss hospital that had been treated for cancer, Malcolm McLaren is a person who changed the world, its influence will remain forever."

Mr. McLaren's agent Les Molloy said, "He suffered from cancer for a long time, but recently it looked like health itself, and suddenly worsened. Today is a very sad day. It will be transferred to London and will be buried in the Highgate cemetery according to one of his last wishes. "

Without the influence of Mr. McLaren, I can not tell the music industry. "Without Malcolm McLaren, punk movements would not have been exciting like that explosively," Molloy says.

Mr. McLaren first became famous in 1971, was a partner of the timeVivienne WestwoodTogether with Chelsea's Kings Road when I opened a fashion boutique called "Let It Rock".

Vivienne Westwood received this sad news: "When we are still young and I fell in love with Malcolm, I thought he was beautiful and I still think that it is a beautiful person. It was a charismatic, special, talented person, I have not contacted you for a long time, but it is truly very sad that he is no longer in this world. "

The son between Vivienne Westwood andJoseph CorreMr. Mr. (born in 1967) also told Mr. McLaren that he went to the Swiss hospital with Young Kim.

McLaren (left) and Vivienne Westwood.


In 1975, among those young people who are accumulating in front of the Kings Road store that was renamed as "Sex" in those days, the green head wearing a torn Pink Floyd T-shirtJohn RyondonMcLaren found Lee Don as a front man of the punk band who was a manager at that time, and sex pistols was born.

John Rydon (Johnny Rotten) and McLaren.


Also,Adam & amp; AntIn addition to being a manager of the band, he later pulled out the members and the 80's New Wave Band known for the hit of "I Want Candy"Bow Wow WowIt was also Malcolm McLaren who formed.

McLaren continued to work in the music industry even after the puncture and the new wave movement converged, he also liked the act of making a sale, and in recent years he has expressed his intention to run for mayor in London in 1999 It did not end for the election eventually), in 2004 he appeared in the British reality show "I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!

Jon Savage, a music journalist known for his work on the history of sex, pistols and punk "England's Dreaming" said, "Without Malcolm McLaren, British punk would not have been born.He said that this country's culture and society Mr. Mark Borkowski, former agent of McLaren, said: "He was an exceptional showman, he knew how to make news," said Mr. Mark Borkowski, former McLaren agent. I am talking.