Getting interesting quotes out of Malcolm McLaren wasn't exactly hard. No, the difficulty was getting him to stop giving you great quotes. When I interviewed him (three years ago, for the Guardian Guide) he opened his mouth to answer my first question and didn't stop rabbiting away for the next 90 minutes. As I recall, he started talking about the destruction of Hollywood, then discussed his love of Paris, the situationists and the avant garde, frothed for a bit about chip music and Japanese culture, and concluded by stating that Pete Doherty "might just be one of the most brilliant apparitions we've ever created".
To say they don't make music managers quite like him any more is an understatement. I love the lesson he learned from his grandmother: "To be bad is good ... to be good is simply boring." Read the punk and post-punk history books and you soon realise that this was a man who was at his best when being bad, whereas when the going got good he was simply bored.
We've spent today paying tribute to the cultural raconteur and punk visionary, who died yesterday aged 64. Here's some of the best stuff ...
Alan McGee on persuading McLaren to run for mayor of London
Video: a short tribute to the pop svengali who was addicted to carnage
Alexis Petridis on McLaren's influence
Gallery: McLaren's life in pictures
Five things we've learned this week
Will.i.am could be the modern-day Sly Stone
Richard Milward joined Sonic Youth for approximately three seconds
Blur still have a short distance left to run
Gang of Four are willing to bleed for their fans
Our buzz bands chart is currently bashing the Drums
Andrew WK on the song that earned him a juvenile restraining order
When he was 17, Andrew WK wrote a song for a girl he was infatuated with. Then she heard it – and it got him in trouble with the police. Amazingly, now you can hear his track exclusively on our site. Even more amazingly, this blogpost went viral and was the third most-read article on Guardian.co.uk today!
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