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AUDIO: Malcolm McLaren (1989)

John Tobler, Rock's Backpages audio, 1989

The manager/artist/impresario bemoans the state of the music business today: its conservative corporate culture; its equally conservative artists; its inability to create new gods... and on becoming an artist himself (and the manager as artist); on his ambitions and predictions; on how England hates artists... and his optimism for Europe.

Read a transcript of this interview.

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