Tuesday 17 March 2020

Malcolm McLaren: From The Forties To The Noughties

MALCOLM MCLAREN: FROM THE FORTIES TO THE NOUGHTIES (320kbs-m4a/395mb/2hrs52mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 2nd to 10th January 2020

At the end of 2009, just a few months before he died, Malcolm McLaren put his musical life into context, in a programme first broadcast on 6 Music marking the end of the decade.

MALCOLM MCLAREN: FROM THE FORTIES TO THE NOUGHTIES- 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 2nd January 2020

In From the Forties to the Noughties, Malcolm remembers dropping out of art school and setting up Live Fast Die Young on the Kings Road with Vivienne Westwood - the shop which eventually became SEX. Arriving in New York in his favourite black rubber coat and selling red PVC clothing to Debbie Harry and the New York Dolls. Meeting Johnny Rotten in SEX for the first time, getting him to audition an Alice Cooper track, and the Sex Pistols becoming the biggest-selling band at the time of the Queen's Jubilee. He also covers the origins of 40s music - organised crime and the cultural subversion of boogie swing bands.

Chuck Berry - Let It Rock [Music Club]
Lucky Millinder - Apollo Jump
Elvis Presley - Good Rockin' Tonight [RCA]
Link Wray - Rumble
The Impalas - Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home) [Debutante]
Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation [Debutante]
Alice Cooper - I'm Eighteen [Warner]
Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
Screaming Lord Sutch - 'Til The Following Night [Castle]
The Tornados - Telstar [Rialto]
Billy Lee Riley - Flyin' Saucers Rock 'N' Roll [Charly]
Charlie Feathers - Tongue Tied Jill [El Toro]

MALCOLM MCLAREN: FROM THE FORTIES TO THE NOUGHTIES- 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 3rd January 2020

New York Dolls - Personality Crisis [Mercury]
The Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs
New York Dolls - Jet Boy [Debutante]
Fats Domino - Walking To New Orleans [Liberty]
Lee Dorsey - Ride Your Pony [Sony/BMG]
Aaron Neville - Tell It Like It Is [Ace]
Big Joe Turner - My Gal's A Jockey [Proper]
Wynonie Harris - All She Wants To Do Is Rock [Reader's Digest]
Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls Of Fire [Polydor]

MALCOLM MCLAREN: FROM THE FORTIES TO THE NOUGHTIES- 3. EPISODE 3 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 7th January 2020

He talks about the origins of Rock n Roll - in particular the early blues - John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson. The look of music and the sound of fashion. Sid Vicious dressing like Eddie Cochran and losing his virginity to Nancy Spungen.

The first record Malcolm bought - Twist and Shout, the Pierre Cardin Beatles suits and being obliged to give John Lennon one of his own silk suits.

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You [Edsel]
The Rolling Stones - Little Red Rooster [K-Tel]
Howlin’ Wolf - Little Red Rooster [Charly]
John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom [Musidisc]
Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues [Sony]
Ali Farka Touré & Bassekou Kouyaté & Mama Sissoko - Erdi [World Circuit]
Bonnie “Prince” Billy - I See A Darkness [Domino]
Alex St Clair Snouffer & Captain Beefheart & Jerry Handley & John French - Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do [Buddha]


MALCOLM MCLAREN: FROM THE FORTIES TO THE NOUGHTIES- 4. EPISODE 4 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 8th January 2020

The Clash - London's Burning
Suicide - Ghost Rider
Eddie Cochran - Pink Peg Slacks
Sex Pistols - Something Else
Joe Bennett & The Sparkletones - Black Slacks
The Royal Teens - Short Shorts
Gerry Granahan - No Chemise Please
The Isley Brothers - Twist And Shout
The Beatles - Please Please Me
John Lennon - Imagine

MALCOLM MCLAREN: FROM THE FORTIES TO THE NOUGHTIES- 5. EPISODE 5 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 9th January 2020

The Death of punk and moving forward to the start of the New Romantics with Bow Wow Wow and Adam & The Ants. The start of Hip Hop which he describes as 'Black Punk'. Meeting Afrika Bambaata and cutting the Buffalo Girls track. The invention of cds and cd compilations. The growth in technology leading to Club Culture, Chip Music, Video games and the abuse of the internet. Looking like your straight counterpart - referencing Madonna and 'Vogue-ing'. 'Authenticity and Karaoke'. How it turns out that the bankers in the UK were the biggest punks of them all. 2008 was the end of the culture of desires.

Adam & The Ants - Unknown
Bow Wow Wow - C30 C60 C90 Go
The Drummers Of Burundi - The Burundi Drum
The Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock
Malcolm McLaren - Buffalo Gals
Public Enemy - Rebel Without A Pause
S'Express - Theme From S'Express
Tobiah - I Love Your Music
Malcolm McLaren - Ride A Fashion Horse

MALCOLM MCLAREN: FROM THE FORTIES TO THE NOUGHTIES- 6. EPISODE 6 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 10th January 2020

Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
Madonna - Vogue
Malcolm McLaren & The Bootzilla Orchestra - Deep In Vogue
Merle Travis - Sixteen Tons
Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls Of Fire
Laurie London - He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
Go Home Productions - Franz Buffalo
Nova Nova - Love... (Malcolm McLaren Tribute)

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