Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren (born 22 January 1946) is a performer, impresario, self-publicist and most famously, former manager of the Sex Pistols and the New York Dolls.
McLaren was a "war baby" born to Pete McLaren, a teenaged war deserter, and Emmy (née) Isaacs in the suburbs of post-WWII London. His father left when he was two and he was raised by his grandmother, Rose Corre Isaacs, in Stoke Newington, the formerly wealthy daughter of Portu...
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Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren (born 22 January 1946) is a performer, impresario, self-publicist and most famously, former manager of the Sex Pistols and the New York Dolls.
McLaren was a "war baby" born to Pete McLaren, a teenaged war deserter, and Emmy (née) Isaacs in the suburbs of post-WWII London. His father left when he was two and he was raised by his grandmother, Rose Corre Isaacs, in Stoke Newington, the formerly wealthy daughter of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish diamond dealers. McLaren told Andrew Denton on Enough Rope, that his grandmother always said to him, "It's good to be bad and it's bad to be good". When Malcolm was six, his mother remarried to Martin Levi, a man working in London's rag trade. When McLaren was in his forties, a Sunday newspaper tracked Pete McLaren down to a “greasy spoon garage” in England.
McLaren's stepfather and mother owned a shmatte factory in London's East End called Eve Edwards London Limited. They lived well but Malcolm and his stepfather never...
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