RIP Malcolm McLaren

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Malcolm McLaren, Impresario and Rock Music Manager, Is Dead
By DAVE ITZKOFF

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Malcolm McLaren in 2006.2:45 p.m. | Updated
Malcolm McLaren, the impresario, promoter and self-promoter who once claimed to have invented punk rock, and who assembled and managed the youthful, unruly members of the Sex Pistols, the breakthrough British punk band, has died. He was 64.

His companion of many years, Young Kim, confirmed that Mr. McLaren died on Thursday, and said he died of mesothelioma at a hospital in Switzerland

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