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Malcolm McLaren

Self-styled impresario and punk provocateur, Malcolm McLaren opened the boutique SEX with partner Vivienne Westwood before a brief stint managing the New York Dolls led to him helping to assemble punk icons the Sex Pistols. Constantly courting controversy and notoriety as the band's manager, McLaren chronicled the Pistols' demise in the mock-umentary film The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle before uniting Adam Ant's old band with 14-year-old Burmese singer Annabella Lwin to form Bow Wow Wow. He turned his attention to hip hop in 1983 after seeing Afrika Bambaataa at a block party, recr...