Dub, funk and disco fused with an experimental punk spirit, eventually shaping the pop music of the next decade. Goodbye Malcolm.Chaotic and druggy as it certainly was, Gunter Grove was the crucible of one of the most influential bands of the post-punk era – a “consortium of like-minded loonies”, according to Lydon. They did actually seem like good ideas at the time, well they would if Malcolm McLaren said they were, because he may have already somehow got you to play better than you’d ever dreamed of, bullied you into writing and recording songs that ended up on Top Of The Pops and induced within you the confidence and audacity to take on the whole world. I’m sure Malcolm enjoyed watching me and my bandmates trying to dance some stupid dance, wearing his girlfriend’s pirate outfits or trying to sing like an elephant. Getting you to do things that seemed impossible was his forte once you did them you realized that most of the time you ended up better off…sometimes not, but then, that was Malcolm getting you at it just for his amusement. None of the bands he was associated with would have sounded or even existed as they did without his catalytic, terror-inducing, at least for me at the time, manipulations. He didn’t play an instrument but he could play a musician for certain. It’s hard to think that we’ll never again be conspiring and laughing on the couch at the back of some dark recording studio, upsetting and outlasting everyone with his unstoppable outrageous ideas, energy and demanding work ethic, resulting in music that was always in a way glorious. At times he seemed as though he was finagling to get the very shirt from your back but, if he thought you were in trouble, he would quietly give you his. I worked with him on and off for several years on various projects…Much of it stressful but always an inventive and devilishly funny time.” Gorman added that “a truly wicked sense of humor was essential to last more than a minute with Malcolm. To say he was unique is an incredible understatement. Leigh Gorman of Bow Wow Wow, a band McLaren put together to promote a New Romantic line he and Westwood were launching, told that McLaren “was a great influence on many lives including mine. The thought of him dead is really something very sad.” I thought he is a very charismatic, special and talented person.
I thought he was beautiful and I still do. Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, his partner in the shop that became SEX - and mother of McLaren’s son, lingerie manufacturer Joseph Corre - said that, “When we were young and I fell in love with Malcolm.
Other tributes to McLaren began pouring in as news of his death spread.
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