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I Was (Almost) a Teenage Sex Pistol: David Harrison

Paul Gorman, 'The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren' (Constable), April 2020

IN 1975, THE regular customers at Sex – the fetish boutique operated at 430 King’s Road by Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood – included David Harrison, a 19-year-old Londoner sporting a distinctive look combining a bleached James Dean haircut with secondhand clothes and the latest Sex designs, some of which he customised.

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