[kj] (OT) McClaren funeral write up from the NME

[Phillipps Marc]

>Highgate is a beautiful cemetery. The old part is better than the new

and much more creepy. :)

 

I was lucky enough to have a guided tour of the closed part (the oldest
bit) back in the 80's . . . somewhere I have a load of good photographs,
I must dig them out 

 

 

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Thanks for the pics. 

 

Vivienne Westwood looks like the gypsy  the movie "Drag Me To Hell!". 

 

Highgate is a beautiful cemetery. The old part is better than the new
and much more creepy. :)

 

 

~LB

 

In a message dated 4/22/2010 3:36:03 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
folk.devil at hotmail.com writes:

	and in pictures from the Guardian...
	 
	
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2010/apr/22/malcolm-mclaren-fune
ral?picture=361775391
	 
	 
	Someone needed to take eggs, for Geldof..
	 

	
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	From: folk.devil at hotmail.com
	To: gathering at misera.net
	Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:35:23 -0700
	Subject: [kj] (OT) McClaren funeral write up from the NME
	
	The funeral procession for punk impresario Malcolm McLaren
<http://www.nme.com/artists/malcolm-mclaren>  has taken place through
the streets of Camden, north London today (April 22), as the former Sex
Pistols <http://www.nme.com/artists/sex-pistols>  manager's cortege made
its way to Highgate Cemetery for his funeral. 
	
	The manager-turned artist in his own right passed away on April
8 in Switzerland after suffering from cancer
<http://www.nme.com/news/malcolm-mclaren/50578> .
	
	McClaren's coffin - which was stenciled with the legend "Too
fast to live too young to die" - was drawn by four black horses in full
funeral regalia and arrived at Camden Town tube station this afternoon. 
	
	The main part of Camden High Street was lined by hundreds of
fans paying their respects, while shopkeepers and market traders paused
from their work to view the procession.
	
	In front of the coffin was a car filled with flowers spelling
out "Cash from chaos". Following the hearse - on the back of which was
an anarchy symbol made of red and white roses - were four cars and a
dark green Routemaster bus, its destination billed as "Nowhere".
	
	A soundsystem on the back of the bus, full of revelling
mourners, played tracks including Sid Vicious' version of 'My Way', the
cover of 'Rock Around The Clock' from 'The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle'
movie and other punk anthems. The bus was followed by crowds of people,
while leather-clad punks jumped on the back of the vechicle and sang
along as it made its way down the high street.
	
	Stopping on the corner of Ferdinand Street and Chalk Farm Road
at the Monarch music venue, the mourners left the bus and it sped off
around the corner, punks still clinging onto it, before playing out the
strains of 'Something Else'.
	
	A private funeral service will now take place this afternoon at
Highgate Cemetery. 
	
	Earlier the manager's family had encouraged the public to take
part in a <http://www.nme.com/news/sex-pistols/50708>  "minute of
mayhem" at noon encouraging the public to stop and play "their favourite
records".
	
	Speaking to NME.COM about the funeral, Ben Westwood - son of
Vivienne, who was McLaren's partner in the 70s - remembered him fondly.
	
	"He was a really good friend. He was a really nice person. My
brother [Joseph Corre, McLaren's son with Vivienne Westwood] said
'travel well' to him when he died. And that's what I'd like to say as
well. Travel well Malcolm, you're a star."
	
	Westwood added that he hopes McLaren's grave at Highgate
Cemetery becomes a shrine in the future. "He's [to be] buried in
Highgate Cemetery, and I hope his grave becomes like Jim Morrison's or
Serge Gainsburg's and all those others." 

	
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