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LOVERBOY     I.    Just a brief note of congratulations to Charles Jeffrey and his Loverboy label for notching up ten years in the world of ...

    Left: Novgorod Devil Mask Shirt   (Pagan Products 1983)  Right: three medieval leather masks found in Novgorod   I.    If, as Deleuze a...

Worlds End: the fifth and final incarnation of McLaren and Westwood's  store at 430 King's Road, Chelsea.   'It was a bright col...

Jordan as SEX punk (1976)  and Worlds End pirate (1981)   'Twas a sunny day when I went to play down by the deep blue sea   I jumped abo...

Malcolm McLaren: screenshot taken from the video for  'Punk It Up' (dir. Ian Gabriel): click here .  A Sex Pistol - that's what ...

Fig. 1: Sex Pistols: Anarchy in the U.K. (EMI, 1976)   Fig. 2: Kazimir Malevich: Black Square (1915)      I.   It's hard to resist lov...

The Surrealist and the Sex Pistol:  André Masson and Malcolm McLaren Photos by Man Ray (c. 1930) and Joe Stevens (1976)     I.    When asked...

  Malcolm outside his notorious boutique  at 430 King's Road (1976)     I.    When it comes to the band's name, there's an argum...

  Joe, Johnny, and Jello in their pre-punk days   One of the defining characteristics of punks back in the day, was that they hated the comp...

All the curly young punks: Michael Collins and Adam Ant (top row)  Mick Jones and Me (bottom row)*     I.    Short spiky hair - often dyed a...

    I.    Once upon a time, as everybody knows, Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood were lovers, creative collaborators, and business par...

Malcolm admiring Picasso's Woman with Yellow Hair (1931) at the Guggenheim (c. 1984) [1]     Doubtless many well-known people have died...

Dominic Snow: Saint Pelé (2007) Oil on canvas (51 x 77 cm) saatchiart.com     Have you heard the news?    The great Brazilian footballer Pe...