Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren - The Biography (Gorman Paul)(Paperback / softback)

Excellent . . . With this book, Gorman convincingly moves away from the ossified image of McLaren as a great rock''n''roll swindler, a morally bankrupt punk Mephistopheles, and closer towards his art-school roots, his love of ideas. Tiresome, unpleasant, even cruel - he was, this book underlines, never boring'' Sunday Times''Exhaustive . . . compelling'' Observer''Definitive . . . epic'' The Times''Gobsmacker of a biography'' Telegraph''This masterful and painstaking biography opens its doorway to an era of fluorescent disenchantment and outlandish possibility'' Alan MooreMalcolm McLaren was one of the most culturally significant but misunderstood figures of the modern era. Ten years after his life was cruelly cut short by cancer, The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren sheds fascinating new light on the public achievements and private life of this cultural iconoclast and architect of punk, whose championing of street culture movements including hip-hop and Voguing reverberates to this day. With exclusive contributions from friends and intimates and access to private papers and family documents, this biography uncovers the true story behind this complicated figure.McLaren first achieved public prominence as a rebellious art student by making the news in 1966 after being arrested for burning the US flag in front of the American Embassy in London. He maintained this incendiary reputation by fast-tracking vanguard and left-field ideas to the centre of the media glare, via his creati
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