Please answer the following question: Facts:   - death place: bellinzona , ticino , switzerland    - years active: 1971 -- 2010    - caption: mclaren in october 2009 .    - birth name: malcolm robert andrew mclaren    - label: charisma virgin/emi , island/atlantic , epic/sme , gee street/island/polygram ,    - death date: 8 april 2010    - genre: rock wave , dance , punk rock , hip hop , new      - birth date: 22 january 1946    - name: malcolm mclaren    - background: solo_singer    - image: malcommclarenspeaking crop.jpg    - birth place: stoke newington , london , uk    - associated acts: sex wow , the world 's famous supreme team pistols , new york dolls , bow wow    - occupation: musician , singer-songwriter , band manager , entrepreneur   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of malcolm mclaren .
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malcolm robert andrew mclaren -lrb- 22 january 1946 -- 8 april 2010 -rrb- was a british musician , impresario , visual artist , performer , clothes designer and boutique owner , notable for combining these activities in an inventive and provocative way .raised unconventionally by his grandmother after his father peter mclaren left the family home , mclaren attended a number of british art colleges and adopted the stance of the social rebel in the style of french revolutionaries , the situationists .with a keen eye for trends , mclaren realised in the 1970s that a new youth style was needed , and largely initiated the punk movement , to which he supplied fashions from the chelsea boutique ` sex ' , operated with his girlfriend vivienne westwood .after a spell advising the new york dolls in the us , mclaren managed the sex pistols , to whom he recruited the nihilistic frontman johnny rotten .the issue of a controversial record , `` god save the queen '' , satirising the queen 's jubilee in 1977 was typical of mclaren 's shock tactics , and he gained publicity by being arrested after a promotional boat trip outside the houses of parliament .mclaren also performed as a solo artist , initially popularising hip hop and world music and later diversifying into funk and disco , the dance fashion for `` vogueing '' and merging opera with contemporary electronic musical forms .when accused of turning popular culture into a cheap marketing gimmick , he joked that he hoped it was true .in his later years , he lived in paris and new york city , and died of peritoneal mesothelioma in a swiss hospital .