Malcolm McLaren (born Malcolm Robert Andrew Edwards; 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 born to Pete McLaren and Emmy Isaacs in the suburbs of postwar London.
His father left when he was two, so he was raised by his grandmother, Rose Corre Isaacs, in Stoke Newington, London. She was a charismatic, formerly wealthy daughter of Portugue...
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Malcolm McLaren (born Malcolm Robert Andrew Edwards; 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 born to Pete McLaren and Emmy Isaacs in the suburbs of postwar London.
His father left when he was two, so he was raised by his grandmother, Rose Corre Isaacs, in Stoke Newington, London. She was a charismatic, formerly wealthy daughter of Portuguese Sephardic Jews who were former diamond dealers. Malcolm 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" because to be good was boring. She also taught him to disregard any authority figure. When Malcolm was six, Emmy Isaac married Martin Levi, a man working in London's rag trade. McLaren's stepfather and his mother owned a shmatte factory in London's East End, 'Eve Edwards London Limited', and Malcolm lived in a fine suburban house. Unfortunately, Malcolm and his...
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