Malcolm McLaren: Innovation Or Exploitation?
Roy Trakin, Musician, February 1982
Malcolm McLaren, the shaker and baker of British punk, turned the Sex Pistols into an epochal event, turned Adam Ant around and now plays Svengali to Bow Wow Wow.
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