Do you know this about Malcolm McLaren?

• He was an eccentric visual artist, performer, musician, clothes designer, and boutique owner.

• Best know as a promoter and manager of bands the New York Dolls and the Sex Pistols.

• He adapted the stance of The French revolutionaries, the Situationists' style of a social rebel in British art school.

• Owned the Chelsea Boutique SEX, which supplied fashions for the punk movement, mostly initiated by him the need for a new protest style.

• He recruited nihilistic frontman Johnny Rotten for the Sex Pistols.

• McLaren was behind the controversial "God Save the Queen" album satirizing the Queen's Jubilee in 1977.

• Had an acclaimed solo artist career, staring off in hip hop and world music later going into funk and disco.

• Had legal issues with the Sex Pistols over unpaid revenues and lost in the '80s.

• In 1984 McLaren turned to electronic music and opera with the single "Madame Butterfly," which reached no. 13 in the UK and no.16 in Australia.

• He lived in Paris and NYC.

• He died of peritoneal mesothelioma in a Swiss Hospital.