Malcolm McLaren’s London Life with Helen Barrett at the London Society on June 9
In the evening June 9 I’ll be in Soho for a London Society event about the London life of the late cultural provocateur Malcolm McLaren.
At workplace venue Fora in Broadwick Street writer Helen Barrett and I will be discussing the ways in which the man born in Stoke Newington and buried in Highgate Cemetery used the city as the springboard for his dizzying range of creative and subversive activities.
I explored the subject in my biography The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren and also in the pair of maps released by Herb Lester as Situation Vacant: Sex Pistols & Malcolm McLaren in London last year.
Apart from the five-year sojourn in Los Angeles in the 80s, from his birth in 1946 until he left the country in 2002 to divide his time between Paris and New York, McLaren’s exploits and adventures were conducted across a spaghetti map of London sites where he lived, loved, worked, studied and schemed.
These included (deep breath):
Stoke Newington • Stamford Hill • Hendon • Soho • Charing Cross • Harrow • Walthamstow • Chelsea • Clapham North • Croydon • Oval • Clapham South • Lewisham • Marble Arch • Oxford Street • World’s End • Marylebone • Shaftesbury Avenue • Hackney • Bayswater • Bloomsbury • Denmark Street • Fitzrovia • Highgate…
At the event I’ll be signing paperbacks of The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren as well as copies of Situation Vacant.
For details and tickets visit the London Society.