Vale Malcolm

Ok ... another music luminary shuffles off this mortal coil! Malcolm Mclaren, you shaped alot of my generation's musical tastes and you were an early proponent of what people refer to as mash-ups these days. You gave white western europe its first taste of hip-hop culled from the hard streets of NYC! and tried with mixed results to meld Opera with pop. But you drew our little romantic gay hearts in with the still wonderful Paris! And you were vogueing well before a certain Miss Ciccione pilfered it for the world stage. We will miss your English sibilance, your repressed sexual pecadillos, your garrulous arrogance and the potential now lost for further musical reinvention. And of course the final words should be Sex and the Sex Pistols ...