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     Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.102.176 |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8610423.stm | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.72 |
Aye. The very least you can say about him is he was an interesting man, normally provocative, and at times an arsehole. And good for him. He did produce a decent sort of rap album toward the end of the 80s, had a lot of mixes in it, one of which I remember with fondness, though how well it stands up now is probably open to debate. His techno mix of The Blue Danube. If there were an afterlife, I'd suggest Sid Vicious may well be gobbing on him in greeting. | ||
| Seanmcd (Seanmcd) Username: Seanmcd Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 86.155.110.252 |
I really really liked his 'Madame Butterfly'. RIP. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.102.176 |
Must admit I never really liked the guy but had a sort of sneaking admiration of the way he seemed to sail in on the back of everything. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.227.157 |
The old fraud. With hindsight The Pistols were just as fake as Milli Vanilli. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.71 |
There was a difference, Hubert. Millie Vanilli couldn't play and so didn't; the Pistols couldn't play but did. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
RIP to a true British original. I loved the guy - he was arrogant, inventive, and utterly, utterly barking. The Pistols actually could play, and Rotten was the ultimate punk lead singer. When you listen to them now, their stuff is still melodic, angry, passionate and often very funny. MM made them into a legendary piece of poular culture. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
For me PiL eclipsed The Sex Pistols and Malcolm McLaren was one of rock's great hangers-on... | ||
| Paul_finch (Paul_finch) Username: Paul_finch Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
I was approaching the end of my school days when punk arrived. We'd all been sailing contentedly along on a sea of denim and long hair, and then this aberration exploded in our midst. Most folks said it was a fad, but I remember thinking: "Bloody hell. Rock will never be the same again." Personally, I hated the whole New Wave thing, and stuck boringly to Led Zep and Deep Purple. So for a time I had nothing but resentment for McLaren. But even I couldn't deny that he played a big part in changing the face of British pop culture. | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 98.220.97.79 |
>> For me PiL eclipsed The Sex Pistols Oh yes indeedy. Today the Pistols sound quite tame, and yet popular music still hasn't quite gotten its head around those first couple of PiL LPs. Great stuff, tho. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.102.176 |
Yep. Metal Box is the dogs. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.227.157 |
The ethic of the day - "Let's make records for five quid again" - is fine by me. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
The Sex Pistols released that one undeniably great album that still captures the zeitgeist of the late 70s better than any other. For that McLaren deserves a lot of credit! But then Lydon went on to greater things leaving McLaren in his dust and I really can't be arsed with any of the fake Pistols material that followed nor indeed any of McLaren's increasingly desperate efforts to recapture his former notoriety. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.237.52 |
Indeed the Pistols could play very well, at least when Glen Matlock was on bass... Sad about Malcolm MacLaren..He was a real character. Several other RIP's in the last week too. The actors' Christopher Cazenove (who us oldies remember from The Duchess Of Duke Street) and also Corin Redgrave, a fine actor who you may remember playing a chilling vampire in Utraviolet. gcw |