Malcolm McLaren on Jonesy's Jukebox

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  • Former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren appeared on Jonesy's Jukebox on May 6, 2005.

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  • @chrino21
    @chrino21 3 роки тому +193

    Steve Jones asking Malcolm McLaren "Have you ever taken a lie-detector test?" might be the greatest question ever asked in the history of interviews.

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      @brycenchad580 3 роки тому +1

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      @kelvinjameson3764 3 роки тому

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      @kelvinjameson3764 3 роки тому +3

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      @brycenchad580 3 роки тому

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  • @martshankleman
    @martshankleman 5 років тому +132

    Steve is natural interviewer . First question to his ex manager ‘where’s the money?’ Said with a smile but deadly serious.

    • @robertkidd2192
      @robertkidd2192 4 роки тому +19

      And yeah Malcom’s almost Nervous Laughter .
      I wonder if he was worried Steeve would start talking about his sleazy ways. LOL ;)

    • @likkidixx
      @likkidixx 4 роки тому +2

      "don't fuck with me"

    • @devonblue
      @devonblue 5 місяців тому

      If he could of took him outside he would of to get his owed dough

    • @juniorjohnson5961
      @juniorjohnson5961 8 днів тому

      Did he screw him out of money? I know nothing about the guy.

  • @grahamblack1961
    @grahamblack1961 2 роки тому +63

    This is a fantastic interview. It's great to hear them being so warm with each other. Say what you want about McLaren, he was utterly fascinating.

    • @luismarioguerrerosanchez4747
      @luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 2 роки тому +6

      He imported the CBGB punk movement to the UK and made it a bigger hit than it ever was in its native NY city.

    • @mjh5437
      @mjh5437 Рік тому

      Totally different@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747

    • @Imnottapinata
      @Imnottapinata Місяць тому

      They were close friends even before Malcolm formed the Pistols.

  • @hahatoldyouso
    @hahatoldyouso Рік тому +9

    How interesting to listen to, love hearing Malcolm's stories

  • @Muirton66
    @Muirton66 2 роки тому +54

    Slippery as a snake was old talcy Malcy but his contribution to British music and culture should never be underestimated, a clever clever guy.

    • @andchat6241
      @andchat6241 2 роки тому +1

      Hi there again ! -..I think McClaren has been given a rather hard time over the years- with all the ex- pistols eventually turning to John's side in the '80s court case , & even the 'Filth & the Fury' had some digs , & the 1 image of Malcolm on the 'kiss This' comp in drag was a bit snide . I felt Steve & Paul kind of went with towing 'the Lydon line' really to avoid conflict ,but Steve's book is fair to Malcolm ( & Viv) & states how much they helped him - & without Malcolm & the shop ,Jordan, Dave Goodman, Jamie Reid etc.....it just wouldn't have happened.....& also i felt there was a real sense of performance listening to Malcolm ,he could be very witty , where Lydon could often be ...

    • @Wicked_R
      @Wicked_R 2 роки тому

      @@andchat6241 he did completely fuck the Pistols though didn't he.made Steve and Paul look like fucking idiots in the end.good that Jonsey and cookie are gentle souls really..cos if Sid had of Survived he and Lydon would of cleaned Malcolm out.

    • @andchat6241
      @andchat6241 2 роки тому

      @@Wicked_R regarding 'he made ' Steve or Paul 'look stupid' , I dont think so - the band had split & Cook n Jones stuck with McClaren who had put them together with Matlock ,gave them a band name , encouraged Steve to move from vocals to Guitar ,pushed for Lydon to be singer, set up living quarters & rehearsal space in Denmark st , while they dressed in clothes from the shop.
      After the split Lydon took McClaren & co to court .Jones & Cook were part of McClarens backing, but knowing any judgement would be tainted by the supposedly 'true ' Rock n Roll Swindle' story they were advised to change to Lydons side .After over 6 years McClaren was found negligent in their management, rather than dishonest , in that he had as little idea of where money was being spent as anyone else, & the group had signed a basic contract with McClaren without legal advice . McClaren being the eldest was held responsible for this.
      Usually if a 'shop owner' found himself as manager of a young band that became successful the contract would have been taken over by a more experienced team with a road manager , but their rapid rise /signing /sacking/change of bassist/signing/sacking/signing ....split made a mess of any 'continuity..?

  • @VanessaDiazNYC
    @VanessaDiazNYC 2 роки тому +55

    Malcom - a fascinating character! I am watching Pistol and revisiting all the docs and interviews and feeling inspired again. Bunch of legends!

    • @garrylogan4554
      @garrylogan4554 2 роки тому +6

      Malcolm wasn't a good bloke at all but where would Steve have ended up without him? Im sure that without Malcolm that he wouldn't be living this cool life as a DJ in LA.

    • @VanessaDiazNYC
      @VanessaDiazNYC 2 роки тому +6

      @@garrylogan4554 Malcolm was a very complicated man indeed. He did a lot of things that I would consider “sneaky” and mean, but he also was a genius in his own way. A very multi faceted person at the very least.

    • @JDC352
      @JDC352 2 роки тому +1

      Blah blah blah...

    • @NoResultsReturned
      @NoResultsReturned 2 роки тому +3

      Same. Loved Pistol. I'm obsessed at this point. Like yourself, I'm watching everything I can find. It's all gold.

    • @MissConJeezyality
      @MissConJeezyality 2 роки тому +2

      @@NoResultsReturned Snap. Since watching it I've gone down a Rabbit hole trying to find anything I can!

  • @Chingfordassociates
    @Chingfordassociates 4 роки тому +76

    Although they had a very complicated relationship, I think Steve was always grateful to Malcolm for giving him his break. I’m not sure Malcolm knew what to do with Steve’s gratitude. I really enjoyed reading Steve Jones’ book Lonely Boy.

    • @TwentyTwenty90
      @TwentyTwenty90 3 роки тому +4

      Spot on. Just finished the book myself - exceptional.

    • @halloweenjack4482
      @halloweenjack4482 3 роки тому +1

      Malcolm actually put the Sex Pistols together just to get Steve off the streets as he was a shocking thief at the time.

    • @gcroller93
      @gcroller93 2 роки тому +4

      You watched the new series? Tis worth a watch homie

  • @healersonwheels9550
    @healersonwheels9550 4 роки тому +26

    Fabulous interview.. Malcolm really is a fantastic story teller, really nice vibe between the two of them. Excellent.

  • @gregmackinnon3663
    @gregmackinnon3663 2 роки тому +15

    Malcolm was a great English flâneur, so creative and charming. He made the world a more fun place to be. Left us way too soon.

  • @karllux-d6g
    @karllux-d6g 5 років тому +56

    'where's the Money?' ' The Swindle continues...'.

    • @sexobscura
      @sexobscura 5 років тому +4

      'he never trusted anybody - let alone a bank'

    • @sexobscura
      @sexobscura 5 років тому +5

      @rj zander killed bambi ...

    • @karllux-d6g
      @karllux-d6g 4 роки тому +1

      @@sexobscura he was a ''human bank'' per se.

    • @lordcharfield
      @lordcharfield 3 роки тому +2

      @@sexobscura Russ Meyer shot Bambi…….look it up!

    • @karllux-d6g
      @karllux-d6g 6 місяців тому +1

      @@sexobscura Really?! It'd be too risqué , even for a Situationist, i guess.

  • @centralscrutinizer66
    @centralscrutinizer66 5 років тому +30

    Man, I could listen this for hours. I love talk about music.

  • @theselector4733
    @theselector4733 4 роки тому +85

    Malcom may have ripped off a lot of people over the years but he's gotta be one of the best raconteurs.

  • @dynjarren7523
    @dynjarren7523 5 років тому +26

    McClaren is very entertaining and charming! Also, a brilliant marketer and good talker. Very smart and clever guy. It’s funny how he laughs when Steve asks him where’s the money? What a provacateur.

  • @gmac9133
    @gmac9133 4 роки тому +47

    Jonesy just seems to bring out the best in everyone.🤔

    • @renebascur4290
      @renebascur4290 3 роки тому +3

      toó much . bloody incredible man anf life

  • @gonzaloreyes8782
    @gonzaloreyes8782 5 років тому +27

    The most crazy manager ever

  • @shanefitzpatrick5811
    @shanefitzpatrick5811 4 роки тому +20

    No matter what about the (lost)? Money, Malcolm tell,s great stories and l could listen to him all day. And without Malcolm ,The Pistols would never have happened. So they do owe him a lot of gratitude.

  • @mrn13
    @mrn13 5 років тому +8

    London has a population of just above 20 million Malcolm said...This interview makes me understand how crazy he was. Solid personality. RIP.

    • @neilsun2521
      @neilsun2521 4 роки тому

      Yeah i was thinking 'isn't it more like 8 million Malcom?'

    • @ricjones5749
      @ricjones5749 4 роки тому +1

      It feels like it sometimes

    • @gazriley624
      @gazriley624 2 роки тому +1

      14 million if you include Greater London

    • @TheFormerkgbchief
      @TheFormerkgbchief 2 роки тому

      I was told that 20 million people are in London every day, a lot of them passing through.

  • @colourist.
    @colourist. 2 роки тому +4

    Great interview.
    Amusing that THIS interview is used verbatim as the plot and script for a lot of the 'Pistol' series on FX.

  • @cejannuzi
    @cejannuzi Рік тому +4

    McLaren has such specific and clear memories of it all. I guess he was not high on drugs or drunk most of the time.

  • @chris.dalton
    @chris.dalton 11 місяців тому +3

    McClaren was fun to listen to but if you want to know what he was doing, just note the following when he mentions in the interview having run for London Mayor (in 2000) and he says he got 2 million votes (by a strange sort of calculation, 9% of 20 million Londoners): 1. Total turnout was 34%. 2. The number of votes cast in both rounds was 1.3 million, making the total population eligible roughly 4.9 million. 3. Malcolm withdrew before the election, thereby receiving 0 votes. But hey, why let the facts get in the way of a good life story!

  • @Wearenotreallyhere
    @Wearenotreallyhere 2 роки тому +7

    Quite a few lines lifted from this interview that ended up in ‘Pistol’. Great to listen to this again.

  • @Fishlip5
    @Fishlip5 5 років тому +16

    Great stuff, Steve is the ideal interviewer for MM, he can't bullshit Steve

  • @bankruptbritain6103
    @bankruptbritain6103 4 роки тому +11

    One of my favourite McClaren quotes is "England is the home of the flasher"

  • @Niels596
    @Niels596 4 роки тому +14

    What a great human mind this Jones guy has!

  • @shack7631
    @shack7631 5 років тому +40

    McLaren is always entertaining, but you wouldn't trust as far as you could throw him.

    • @revol148
      @revol148 5 років тому +6

      +Shack his winning 2 million votes in an Mayoral election he pulled out of is one of many in this interview alone !

    • @michaelstephen819
      @michaelstephen819 5 років тому +2

      Same for any manager in this business - Sharon Osbourne, anyone?

    • @revol148
      @revol148 5 років тому +3

      @@michaelstephen819 Her father, Don Arden was a ruthless nightmare of a man who screwed everyone he managed over - she even admits that in an interview with Jonsey. McLaren, Arden & Brian Epstein were all Jews by the way.....just saying.

    • @michaelstephen819
      @michaelstephen819 5 років тому

      @@revol148 Yes, that's where she gets it from. Wendy Dio seems to be joining the same club. Hologram in your husband's memory?

    • @revol148
      @revol148 5 років тому +3

      @Spencer Proctor ....is there not a grain of truth in most generalisations? Take the Russian oligarchs who stripped the country of its wealth in the 1990's when all the state assets were privatised with many leaving the country - how many of those oligarchs were NOT members of god's chosen people? Clue: almost none.

  • @fleetwoodsmash
    @fleetwoodsmash 2 роки тому +23

    Riveting. Several things can be true at the same time: MM is incredibly charming and unprincipled. Jonesy knows MM ripped him off but remains grateful for the opportunity (he knows he's still far ahead of where he'd be without MM), and the Pistols would have still been a band wirhout MM, but nowhere near the band they became.

    • @cejannuzi
      @cejannuzi 8 місяців тому

      I don't think McLaren advised or forced him to be a heroin addict, and that is pretty much how he wrecked his post-Pistols career. Sure the world and the industry weren't very fair about recognizing Jones as one of the major musical talents behind the Pistols--the other being Matlock, but he was very self-destructive.

  • @adrianc1264
    @adrianc1264 3 роки тому +9

    he's hard work, can see why so many people disliked him. Absolutely no room is big enough for him and john lydon at the same time

    • @mjh5437
      @mjh5437 6 місяців тому

      You must be quite dense if you don`t find this extremely interesting and amusing.

  • @blackmore4
    @blackmore4 5 років тому +10

    The moment McClaren says the word "Mongols", Jones starts laughing. I'm crying :))

    • @lordcharfield
      @lordcharfield 3 роки тому +2

      I was the same 🤣

    • @mjh5437
      @mjh5437 6 місяців тому +1

      Delightfully non-PC moment

  • @madmushmusic
    @madmushmusic 7 місяців тому

    One of the best interviews Jones did. This one, Chrissie Hynde, and Seymore Stein. Class!

  • @garydansco5584
    @garydansco5584 3 роки тому +3

    Its Just Great that these 2 old mates Still got on so well, after all the court cases, ect......xxxxx

  • @richarddixon9606
    @richarddixon9606 4 роки тому +7

    Amazing how some people can rip you off and you still like them,some talent that.

    • @gostrum1
      @gostrum1 3 роки тому +1

      It takes one to know one

    • @richarddixon9606
      @richarddixon9606 3 роки тому

      @@gostrum1 Eh

    • @douglasfreeman3229
      @douglasfreeman3229 2 роки тому

      A particular talent of psychopaths. Politicians do it. They punch your face then say they will drive you to the hospital, then leave you bleeding to death believing that you are in a hospital bed surrounded by medical staff.

  • @allosaurusfragilis7782
    @allosaurusfragilis7782 4 роки тому +34

    What a character. He was like something out of dickens.

  • @niknayme3754
    @niknayme3754 5 років тому +10

    We don't want the swindle to end Malcolm. Carry on.

  • @maryuline2585
    @maryuline2585 2 роки тому +1

    I listened to this interview a while ago but now in the meantime I have read Steve's book. This is so much more interesting now and especially since Malcolm has passed the information is really more interesting and important.

  • @ianshaw2321
    @ianshaw2321 5 років тому +42

    Jonesy needs to get Andrew Loog Oldham on the show

    • @MrShaunsk
      @MrShaunsk 5 років тому +5

      Yes. That would be great.

    • @carpetbeggar
      @carpetbeggar 5 років тому +4

      Or Prince Andrew.

    • @chuckberry8852
      @chuckberry8852 5 років тому +1

      He's still alive? That would be great but I think the "Bro code" would prevent him from telling his best tales. Just imagine the stories. Get him and Marianne Faithful on together and watch the fireworks!

  • @dangl650
    @dangl650 Рік тому +1

    I love that “where’s the money ?”
    Proper bloke Steve is.

  • @markmaccormak4310
    @markmaccormak4310 5 років тому +21

    Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story 👌

  • @jackreed7287
    @jackreed7287 2 роки тому +7

    Steve Jones listening to Sex Pistols stories like a fan.

  • @thomaswieser2229
    @thomaswieser2229 Рік тому +1

    What a storyteller

  • @zochbuppet448
    @zochbuppet448 2 роки тому +7

    John Lydon surely got a lot of people to hate this guy for no really good reason.
    why?
    Malcolm helped John Lydon to get where is is/ went. Because a lot of it was Malcolm McLaren's ideas.
    Big mouths and hyper social chatty personality types need other people to steer them, especially when they are young like John Lydon at the time.
    Vivienne Westwood...Also owes everything to him with her fashion empire now.
    She knew NOTHING, or very little except to make alterations and sew a few things when she met him. Everything she learned from him.
    IT WAS ALL HIS IDEAS.
    He went to art school.
    Some of the ideas of punk, especially the antagonist or social/ political forms of UK Punk is rooted in Situational-ism a 1960's confrontational philosophy/ politics, art movement...which Malcolm knew about.
    Jones and cook knew this and accepted it and him for all his sneaky and scammy ways.

  • @GerryJensen
    @GerryJensen 8 днів тому

    Haven't seen-heard this in a couple years, Malcolm can spin a tale

  • @TheWizard-yo8uv
    @TheWizard-yo8uv 5 років тому +45

    ‘ where’s the money?..’ both laughing sez it all 😂

    • @JETJOOBOY
      @JETJOOBOY 5 років тому

      There was a rumour.

    • @jamesmatthews5639
      @jamesmatthews5639 5 років тому

      cash for chaos

    • @Eleventhearlofmars
      @Eleventhearlofmars 5 років тому +3

      rj zander mclaren had all their trousers down ( ripped them off) Lydon took mclaren to court and won, don’t think any of the others got anything back though.

    • @antigen4
      @antigen4 4 роки тому

      no they conspired to fool the public that there was a 'conspiracy'

    • @bernardjharmsen304
      @bernardjharmsen304 4 роки тому +1

      "The swindle continues" ha

  • @seekah1
    @seekah1 5 років тому +3

    Again, thanks for putting these up, real treat. Now, where's that Bollocks box set...

  • @sootspritehive
    @sootspritehive 5 років тому +10

    Many moons ago I met Malcolm @ a Virgin Records in-store event - He was promoting the "Paris" album at the time (which is quite good) - Looking a bit sullen over the small turn out, he was nevertheless charming and very cool to chat with. Check out his BBC Radio docs (on London and his childhood) for more good story telling. ....

  • @mondofilmzz
    @mondofilmzz Рік тому +1

    Old but gold.

  • @baronsaturday2103
    @baronsaturday2103 5 років тому +10

    Malcolm could tell a story really well! Great stuff...!

  • @sovaine
    @sovaine Рік тому +2

    "Where's the money" lol..... priceless cockney banter😅

  • @TheGreatAlan75
    @TheGreatAlan75 4 роки тому +5

    This is like Badfinger interviewing THEIR manager

    • @MikeGervasi
      @MikeGervasi 4 роки тому +1

      Badfinger had it worse. They lost all their money AND were on the hook to the record company. Poor Pete Ham hung himself over it. Polley should rot in hell.

  • @AlmostReady504
    @AlmostReady504 4 роки тому +9

    Malcolm was a wonderful interesting character. And made his mark on the scene. I'll still never forgive him for fucking up The Dolls.
    RIP Malcolm

    • @kromedome0101
      @kromedome0101 2 роки тому +4

      Malcom didn't fuck up the Dolls, heroin did.

    • @mjh5437
      @mjh5437 Рік тому +1

      Dolls screwed themself up.

    • @ianwhitehead691
      @ianwhitehead691 Рік тому +2

      Yep, 💉 definitely the Smack.🤤

  • @PaulLea
    @PaulLea 5 років тому +14

    I enjoyed that interview, great to hear Malcolm and his well told entertaining stories.

  • @purplesue66
    @purplesue66 2 роки тому +3

    My God Mr. Jones here you are with the best interviews with musicians I love it cause it's about music fashion story telling and other things that the guest wants us to know he's easy going and funny which disarms the guest and we get mote.subsqribe folks.

  • @jude999
    @jude999 4 роки тому +3

    Fantastic. Great story teller indeed. I always wondered the background story.

  • @newwavepop
    @newwavepop 2 роки тому +6

    i always thought it was strange how much animosity Lydon had towards Malcolm, i always thought they seemed really similar in a lot of ways they even looked like they could have ben related.

  • @chuckberry8852
    @chuckberry8852 5 років тому +4

    "Lightening Strikes" the first song Steve and Malcolm were trying name the artist on wasn't Lou Chrisitie, it was Frankie Valley and the Four Seasons.

    • @lysanderofsparta3708
      @lysanderofsparta3708 5 років тому +4

      No, it really was Lou Christie who originally recorded "Lightning Strikes" in 1965.

    • @chuckberry8852
      @chuckberry8852 5 років тому

      @@lysanderofsparta3708 Technically you are correct. I would just note that in Steve's mind he was referring to the Frankie Valley and the Four Seasons version as you can hear him start to say "The Four Seasons". You win win this time Batman!

    • @lysanderofsparta3708
      @lysanderofsparta3708 5 років тому

      @@chuckberry8852 Lou Christie (real name: Luigi Sacco) was often mistaken for Frankie Valli -- another Italian-American singer from the early 1960's with an incredibly loud and powerful falsetto voice.

    • @chuckberry8852
      @chuckberry8852 5 років тому

      @@lysanderofsparta3708 Interesting. As far as I remember Frankie Valley and the Four Seasons did cover that tune. I remember a TV commercial for their greatest hits featuring a sound bite from that song amongst others. I guess it was a natural fit for Frankie's voice.

  • @nickh8737
    @nickh8737 5 років тому +5

    I think its unreal that the band only had 1 album!? It just keeps going today

    • @MrMh722
      @MrMh722 5 років тому +5

      That might be the best thing about it and the reason why it's so special!

    • @blakejohnson7148
      @blakejohnson7148 4 роки тому +3

      It's a great album.

    • @hawkeyefire6208
      @hawkeyefire6208 4 роки тому +4

      They were told they couldn’t play and John couldn’t sing, how wrong they were. It’s still sounds fresh today and the quality is un questionable. One album and still being talked about in high regard. Simple but fantastic.
      Stay Free all

    • @mjh5437
      @mjh5437 6 місяців тому

      It still gives me goosepimples

  • @robertdavidson9393
    @robertdavidson9393 5 років тому +13

    Steve to Malcalm have you ever taken a lie detector test?Bwhahahahaha!

  • @evenmore5868
    @evenmore5868 4 роки тому +9

    I had to laugh, Malcolm impersonating Derbyshire born Vivienne "yer got the wrong John"

  • @carloslozada470
    @carloslozada470 5 років тому +12

    2005 ? Jones needs to be on everyday

  • @matthewmwolff
    @matthewmwolff 4 роки тому +8

    "How can I repay you?"

  • @Bowl_sessions
    @Bowl_sessions 4 роки тому +7

    How interesting those days were. Can't imagine anything being as interesting on the king's road today. When did we become so boring? How do you get that back.

    • @Whiplashed
      @Whiplashed 4 роки тому +7

      getting rid of the internet...

    • @mjh5437
      @mjh5437 6 місяців тому

      @@Whiplashed Spot on mate.

  • @amathis7292
    @amathis7292 5 років тому +46

    It's hard to hate Malcolm because he's very honest in his shityness.

    • @comicblueswithjonygitar36
      @comicblueswithjonygitar36 5 років тому +10

      He's Fagan come to life my dears.

    • @yinoveryang4246
      @yinoveryang4246 5 років тому +4

      It’s not too hard to hate him. After the Sex pistols everything he did, to cut a long story short, failed. No taste, despite pretending otherwise throughout his life. The only bit that DID succeed (Pistols) succeeded only though luck. Several levels of blag, and bullshit, there’s so much provably nonsense things said in this interview. “These Mongolians, they’ve got the beat”. What? He’ was one morally dubious bullshitter too.

    • @elizabethhann4028
      @elizabethhann4028 5 років тому +3

      @@comicblueswithjonygitar36 You're someone who understands him. Thank goodness for that.

    • @sexobscura
      @sexobscura 5 років тому +1

      just like Ted Bundy

    • @chrisbennett606
      @chrisbennett606 4 роки тому

      Yin over Yang how do you know he's not telling the truth on the Mongolian

  • @josephlambert5413
    @josephlambert5413 Рік тому +2

    Je reminds me of C3POs actor.

  • @catmandudes7949
    @catmandudes7949 5 років тому +5

    I was already $100,000 in and I did not want to pay any more, Jonesy you should have used the money you took from us, boom boom you got him well said, timed it perfectly.

  • @edwardbliss8931
    @edwardbliss8931 5 років тому +19

    I've seen so many Malcolm McLaren interviews and he always came off as serious and blunt. Now all this laughing may be an act, but at the same time---this rare carefree and good-natured side might be only seen when the camera lights are off---but brought out here because he's being interviewed by Steve Jones.

    • @Fractalite
      @Fractalite 4 роки тому +6

      You can see he was totally at ease - enjoying himself - and Steve totally encouraged him to run free with tales in a lighthearted manner . They constantly flirted and giggled over the idea that Malcolm was indulging in artistic license. I think this interview was absolutely unique.

  • @dmerls8571
    @dmerls8571 2 роки тому +2

    I'm hearing "Boys' Chorus" at the start with Malcolm's laughter. Novelty song? Maybe but pretty great too.

  • @shaunw9270
    @shaunw9270 5 місяців тому

    Malcolm's imitation of Vivienne is so spot on. Brilliant.

  • @happyjack1598
    @happyjack1598 4 роки тому +2

    2021.Timeless songs and the history.Steve,Paul,Glen,Johns,Malcolm,Viv, as a Yankee from Boston usa,was nice folks even though it was a bit hairy,lol.Wish I could been a roadie,but I was 12 and to get back to the states.😀❤

  • @fasthracing
    @fasthracing 2 роки тому +2

    Could listen to Malcolm a lot.

  • @jalijali8448
    @jalijali8448 5 років тому +8

    Oh Malcolm, miss the old bugger!

  • @JFABALL2022
    @JFABALL2022 5 років тому +14

    2 bands changed the world in my lifetime...Beatles and Pistols

    • @andchat6241
      @andchat6241 5 років тому +2

      Yup ...the SEX BEATLES would be some combo......
      (though there was actually a late 70s band with that name)

    • @STETTRACE
      @STETTRACE 5 років тому +1

      Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen and Blackmore as well

    • @andchat6241
      @andchat6241 5 років тому +1

      @@STETTRACE , yes Jimi ,Eddie & Ritchie were top rate guitarists....but, that's not really a reply to James Ballards "2 bands changed the world....."

    • @sexobscura
      @sexobscura 5 років тому +3

      you forgot The Carpenters and ABBA

    • @andchat6241
      @andchat6241 5 років тому +2

      James Ballard ..I guess the Pistols got a chunk of Beatles via Glen Matlock ( or as McClaren rather unfairly calls him 'the Saturday boy') ..in his Book 'Lonely Boy' Jones says how much Matlock (musically) taught them....Jones also states his main 'musical hero' was Rod Stewart...

  • @adrianbrowne7962
    @adrianbrowne7962 3 роки тому +3

    Although Malcolm McLaren has " Continued To Divide Opinion " Over the years I think that his " Significance And Intelligence " Are Indisputable regardless of anything else !!! From Adrian Browne 1965

  • @AlexanderLaurence
    @AlexanderLaurence 3 роки тому +4

    I like how Malcolm makes fun of vivienne westwood's accent. 21:10

    • @mjh5437
      @mjh5437 6 місяців тому

      Does it very well too lol

  • @myboythom
    @myboythom 2 роки тому +1

    We used to use our old amigas live on stage back in the early 90s
    The cheesy old rave stuff we used to pump out. ....aahh the good old bad old days

  • @thelizardking9382
    @thelizardking9382 5 років тому +5

    The Marvellous Malcolm McLaren

  • @mjh5437
    @mjh5437 4 роки тому +3

    Fascinating great English Eccentric,super brght mind and always interesting character.

  • @BB.halo_heir
    @BB.halo_heir 4 роки тому +8

    Jonesy's great ♡

  • @edoliveira4288
    @edoliveira4288 3 роки тому +2

    Malcolm Mclaren simply the Best

  • @ekdecay6371
    @ekdecay6371 6 днів тому

    The Swindle continues ... "Wheres the Money" ? ... Luv it

  • @DungeonStudio
    @DungeonStudio 5 років тому +11

    Malcolm and Tony Wilson I always thought got the short end of the stick for their brilliance and guts. Would the Pistols have happened without McLaren? Certainly not to the extent we know them now I'm sure. But to slag him off as this useless money grubber that messed everything up I never bought for a minute. Yeah, maybe he manipulated Glen out of the band. But he saw the brilliance in Sid to replace him. And yeah, he may have contributed to Sid's downfall - but he tried to keep Nancy away as much as everyone else. So Sid was doomed soon as he met her and got on the junk, and really Malcolm GLORIFIED him to the infamy he has to this day. The Great Rock N' Roll Swindle is really Sid's movie. And Sid looks and sounds fabulous in it! So yeah, it may have pissed a lot of money away, made Malcolm look like the bad guy. And Ronnie Bigg's taking the piss on everything. But most remember Sid in it, and rightfully so. So if that was just to make money from after Sid checked out, which he was going to anyways - gotta credit Malcolm for doing that. He could just as easily told Sid to piss off and bring Glen back or somebody else. And Sid would've died with Nancy in Essex or Akron unnoticed.

    • @sexobscura
      @sexobscura 5 років тому +1

      Wilson is like McLaren in that he likes to [fictionally] place himself in the centre of all the cultural action
      when the truth is that they were *NOT*

    • @andchat6241
      @andchat6241 5 років тому +1

      While the end of Sids life was a tradgedy, Steve Jones was an illiterate criminal whose life was greatly improved by knowing McClaren..& Lydons line that 'Malcolm put nothing into the Pistols is clearly incorrect' he had the name already, put 'the Band' together ,got them somewhere to practice & possibly of most importance together with Vivian designed great clothes so they looked 'like stars' from the start..
      With some great lyrics from Lydon & some good cover versions they were 'up & running'..

    • @deanpd3402
      @deanpd3402 4 роки тому +1

      There is no brilliance in a Tavistock operation.

    • @jonstern7511
      @jonstern7511 2 роки тому

      @@deanpd3402 what did Tavistock do here?

  • @erikmolnar6585
    @erikmolnar6585 5 років тому +4

    You can tell these two have a great connection. John needs to never mind the Bollocks and realize how great his life has been made.

    • @andchat6241
      @andchat6241 5 років тому

      It must have been hard for everybody when Steve Jones & Paul Cook 'switched sides' & backed Lydon in his legal case against McClaren - that took 8 years before a 'Financial Conclusion' was reached...

    • @erikmolnar6585
      @erikmolnar6585 5 років тому

      @Nobby Heads There were many cunts on the management and production side of the music business with almost every band you can think of. But everyone ended up rich af in the end!

  • @soapy3204
    @soapy3204 11 місяців тому

    Rip London ,Malcom and the good old days …..what now Fagin? …..”live up to your name boy and dodge around sharpish “✨🎩

  • @daevidharvey7113
    @daevidharvey7113 4 роки тому +7

    The way Malcolm laughs about jokingly being accused of having
    Ripped The Sex Pistols off “Taken The Money” is very creepy and quite sinister

    • @DuncYo
      @DuncYo 2 роки тому

      Absolute CNUT yeh!!!

    • @jonstern7511
      @jonstern7511 2 роки тому +1

      Yep. The way he laughed like that made it sound like that certainly happened

    • @douglasfreeman3229
      @douglasfreeman3229 2 роки тому +2

      Yes, that laugh says "I know. I know. Guilty as charged."

  • @matthewmwolff
    @matthewmwolff 4 роки тому +4

    "You never call"

  • @TheFormerkgbchief
    @TheFormerkgbchief 2 роки тому +2

    9:20 I wonder if Malcolm murdered that guy...

  • @fatbelly27
    @fatbelly27 2 роки тому

    Great interview

  • @Egg-h5f
    @Egg-h5f Рік тому

    THE TRADE OFF WAS THE " SPEAK EASY "

  • @its-not-my-cup-of-tea
    @its-not-my-cup-of-tea 5 років тому +4

    Population of London 20 million???? divide that figure by 2, Malcolm then you''ll be A LOT closer

  • @CRIMEONTHELACOBB
    @CRIMEONTHELACOBB 3 місяці тому

    Steve Jones ... You are so genuine ...

  • @wotdoesthisbuttondo
    @wotdoesthisbuttondo 2 роки тому +3

    Weird how McLaren never got done for putting a naked 14yo girl in film/inside cover of the Swindle record making her look like be Sue Catwoman, then that Bow Wow Wow stuff.

    • @mjh5437
      @mjh5437 Рік тому

      Weird how you never got done for masturbating over it.

  • @fanboy2015
    @fanboy2015 5 років тому +7

    Hate to say this, but if it wasn’t for Malcolm we would never have had the Sex Pistols.

    • @sexobscura
      @sexobscura 5 років тому +1

      they existed well before he got them to help sell his wares

    • @nkmcfrln
      @nkmcfrln 5 років тому +3

      @@sexobscura You're full of shit.

    • @fanboy2015
      @fanboy2015 5 років тому +2

      sexobscura No

    • @Muirton66
      @Muirton66 5 років тому +4

      @@sexobscura The man is 100% correct, no Malcolm no Sex Pistols......fact

    • @andchat6241
      @andchat6241 4 роки тому +1

      @@sexobscura , well cook & jones (+ Wally Nightingale) were ' a band' in the way many of have been & as a' natural progression ' from Steve's Ability to steal instruments (& many other things),Inc' Bowies pro microphones from 'Ziggys farewell gigs' at Hammersmith Odeon ...but in '75 McClaren had the name (printed on his Love/Hate shirts sold in his & Vivs shop) 'Kutie Jones & his Sex Pistols' .they played 1 gig with steve on vocals...He wasn't comfortable on vox so they looked for another vocalist...the songs in some style 'written before' john joining were 'Did you know wrong' & 'Pretty vacant' ...as earlier live recordings show e.g. I have an lp from Manchester June 76 they've added 'problems & 17' to the set (still includes Substitute, gimme no lip, what you gonna do? & no fun....)

  • @krisscanlon4051
    @krisscanlon4051 3 роки тому +1

    Just the bees knees... Brit marketing of vital music from the late great Malcolm M.

    • @krisscanlon4051
      @krisscanlon4051 9 місяців тому

      Malcolm relived the infamous story that changed popular culture. Hard to believe it all. Jonesy literally relived the story as though he heard it the first time.

  • @douglasfreeman3229
    @douglasfreeman3229 2 роки тому +1

    Nice upload, Charles Hawtrey, but I put it to you that you are an imposter! Hah!

  • @bomberlemmy5037
    @bomberlemmy5037 5 років тому +12

    Malcolm Mc Claren was a genius and the Sex Pistols would never have happened and neither would punk rock without him and Vivienne Westwood.

    • @Betrayerslayer
      @Betrayerslayer 5 років тому +6

      Ramones did just fine with out him when they created punk. You may sit down, youre dismissed.

    • @lrodger2486
      @lrodger2486 5 років тому +6

      EGGS.BULLETS.RECORDS the ramones were never punk..

    • @Betrayerslayer
      @Betrayerslayer 5 років тому +2

      @@lrodger2486 absolutely they are. Just like England is the 51st state of America. Sit down and hush.

    • @Lord_Hillcrest01
      @Lord_Hillcrest01 5 років тому +4

      @@Betrayerslayer The New York Dolls did more for punk than The Ramones , they were just a garage band . Now you just sit down and hush .

    • @Lord_Hillcrest01
      @Lord_Hillcrest01 5 років тому +2

      @@lrodger2486 Agreed totally .

  • @charlesd.2587
    @charlesd.2587 5 років тому +24

    Man...started slow but then sucked me in big time. McLaren's voice and style is so unique...he's like a 70s Fagin.

    • @shack7631
      @shack7631 5 років тому +5

      He is a fantastic story. You could listen to him all night. The question is how much to believe.

    • @sexobscura
      @sexobscura 5 років тому +3

      a 70s Fagin [as he'd like to purport] - he's more like an eternal conniver [as the world knows]

    • @terrythekittie
      @terrythekittie 5 років тому +1

      Or punk's answer to Arthur Daley.

  • @eughrologh
    @eughrologh 2 роки тому +1

    Love how Malc says he got 2 million votes for London mayor and then 2 minutes later you learn he dropped out before the election.

  • @erlstone
    @erlstone 5 років тому +1

    I certainly believe you Malcolm....you had the knack or the black art of what is "cool".

  • @postworld1185
    @postworld1185 5 років тому +8

    Malcolm missed the most important element. Disaffected youth? Not in the US. You had one of the best albums of all time. When it came out everyone at my privileged college bought the album. In fact, I don't believe I knew what the band looked like, but when I heard the album at a friends, I had to have it. At the time, song for song I don't think you had any competition. Kids everywhere were speeding around southern CA w Bollocks blaring. It was just f'n good.

    • @willieluncheonette5843
      @willieluncheonette5843 5 років тому +3

      "At the time, song for song I don't think you had any competition." Possibly, although I'd rank the Clash and Gen X debuts as just as good. And Ramones' debut in April 1976 was the game changer.

    • @andchat6241
      @andchat6241 4 роки тому +1

      @@willieluncheonette5843 ...though 'bollocks' wasn't popular with many at time of release (US groups Heartbreakers,Ramones,talking Heads, Dead Boys etc are another matter), Felt the lp had too many singles (4), was 'over produced' , in punk terms too much 'old stuff ' 17, no feelings, liar....& that they were' late for their own party' .Now its (correctly) seen as a classic collection .

    • @willieluncheonette5843
      @willieluncheonette5843 4 роки тому

      @Flat Earth Florida I certainly disagree that Ramones were nowhere near the musicians the SP were. I think they were all fine, including Tommy who frequently gets slagged off. Tell the truth, I don't ever hear anyone dissing Johnny's talent. And if you want to hear Jones expand a bit, listen to The Professionals I Didn't See It Coming LP--a tour de force rock album by him.

    • @willieluncheonette5843
      @willieluncheonette5843 4 роки тому

      @Flat Earth Florida My pleasure mate. You might be interested in this I wrote 3 years ago. ua-cam.com/video/IwsVWZ-c8Eo/v-deo.html REMEMBERING JOHNNY RAMONE TODAY ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH. John William Cummings (October 8, 1948 - September 15, 2004), known professionally as Johnny Ramone, was an American guitarist and songwriter, best known for being the guitarist for the punk rock band the Ramones. He was a founding member of the band, and remained a member throughout the band's entire career. He died from prostate cancer on September 15, 2004. Was wondering what to post and finally settled on a very early (their first ever?) live gig at CBGB's. From September 1974!! for God's sake. Please....no more Sex Pistols were the first punk band. OK? This is so early, an argument breaks out over what song to play next. And Joey was still flopping around here. Later he would stand tall and concentrate on providing a perfect voice for this powerful music. If you have the Ramones debut album, released in April, 1976, you can play a little trick. The LP was recorded with the bass in the left channel and guitar in the right. If you have controls that let you shift the music, you can turn them to the right and isolate Johnny's buzz saw wall of sound. The man shreds, providing the template for many future punk and hardcore guitarists.

    • @jerrymarcal8034
      @jerrymarcal8034 4 роки тому +1

      Ever heard (I'm) stranded by the Saints...or radios appear by radio birdman?

  • @mjh5437
    @mjh5437 6 місяців тому

    Malcolm imitating Viv Westwoods northern accent is so funny

  • @gustavnovak
    @gustavnovak 5 років тому +5

    the mongolian/chinese all-girl group talk cracks me up ! 😂😂😂

    • @andchat6241
      @andchat6241 5 років тому +1

      Yeah I don't think they ever topped the charts ...neither did 'she sheriff'& other 'McClaren protégés' ..but 1 great group is more than enough....

  • @anthonyotoole867
    @anthonyotoole867 5 років тому +7

    you can see lydon learnt a lot off Malcolm the nervous laugh. the one liner put downs.