Serious Mayhem
Simon Reynolds: The McLaren Strand, 10 March 2022
The Life and Times of Malcolm McLaren: The Biography
by Paul Gorman.
Constable, 855 pp., £14.99, November 2021,978 1 4721 2111 0 Show More
by Paul Gorman.
Constable, 855 pp., £14.99, November 2021,
“... way. We didn’t know the song had originally been written and performed by the light entertainer Max Bygraves, but intuited that McLaren’s version was an assault on the middle-aged and middle of the road. Elsewhere on the record, Sid Vicious too defiled showbiz with his punk take on ‘My Way’, twisting Sinatra’s swagger into psychopathic ... ”