Serious Mayhem
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The Life and Times of Malcolm McLaren: The Biography
by Paul Gorman.
Constable, 855 pp., £14.99, November 2021,978 1 4721 2111 0 Show More
by Paul Gorman.
Constable, 855 pp., £14.99, November 2021,
“... the Sex Pistols as Johnny Rotten or Sid Vicious, eclipsing the group’s musical muscle: drummer Paul Cook, guitarist Steve Jones and bassist Glen Matlock. (It was Matlock who wrote nearly all the group’s best tunes, only to be pushed out for being a Beatles-loving middle-class namby.) Andrew Loog Oldham, who managed the Rolling Stones, was the crucial ... ”