Malcolm McLaren’s Duck Rock at 40: the album that foretold today’s anything-goes pop
The 1983 LP introduced a generation to hip-hop and mashed up style – but by not crediting Black musicians, it was also cultural appropriation. Producer Trevor Horn recalls its creation
January 2023
From the Guardian archive
Rotten day for punks: the Sex Pistols break up – archive, 1978
A job at Vivienne Westwood’s shop made me a Sex Pistol
Glen Matlock
December 2022
Dame Vivienne Westwood: fashion designer dies aged 81
Iconoclastic British designer rose to prominence by outfitting the Sex Pistols as punk took off in the 1970s
Remembering Vivienne Westwood: ‘The rebel who was never without a cause’
Jess Cartner-Morley recalls meeting the anti-establishment fashion designer and political activist who shaped punk culture and street style
Vivienne Westwood: her life and career – in pictures
A look at the famous fashion designer’s greatest moments after her death at the age of 81
October 2022
‘Grace Jones was in a state’: legendary producer Trevor Horn relives his mega-hits
A new start after 60
A new start after 60: ‘I started to experiment upcycling old clothes – and they sold’
May 2022
Wake Up Punk review – memorabilia-burning punk progeny fails to check his privilege
This documentary about Joe Corré, the son of Vivienne Westwood and the late Malcolm McLaren, is a strangely listless and unlikable affair
April 2021
'I wanted to be a living work of art': why Jordan is the queen of punk rock style
Adam Ant claimed she invented punk, with a take on clothes that still shocks more than 40 years later. Now, as Maisie Williams plays her in Danny Boyle’s new series Pistol, Jordan’s story is finding a new audience
May 2020
The Life and Times of Malcolm McLaren review – fallouts and fabulous disasters
From avant-garde fashion with Vivienne Westwood to the Sex Pistols to hip-hop … Paul Gorman pins down the talents of a disruptive visionary
April 2020
Book of the day
The Life and Times of Malcolm McLaren by Paul Gorman review - punk's king of chaos
New biography chases down oddly elusive punk promoter
April 2019
Jordan, the face of punk: 'The things I wore made people apoplectic'
She was the rubber-knickered peroxide bombshell who put the sex into the Pistols. Now she’s written a memoir of her years causing outrage at the heart of punk
January 2019
Giant nappies, CD burning and 'perv bops': when girl bands go wrong
The history of girl group’s problematic pasts, from the shocking undertones of teen punks Bow Wow Wow to boycotting presidents and bloodied tampons
May 2018
Is this the most communist graveyard in the UK? – video
Ahead of Karl Marx's 200th birthday we take a tour around Highgate cemetery, the final resting place of the father of communism and other prominent lefties
April 2018
Joe Corré on his £5m punk ashes – and Malcolm McLaren's death mask
Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s son shocked the music world in 2016 by burning £5m of punk memorabilia. He talks about his new installation, which incorporates the ashes from that fire, as well as his father’s death mask
November 2017
The Sex Pistols 1977: The Bollocks Diaries; Punk Is Dead, edited by Richard Cabut and Andrew Gallix – review
Two very different histories of punk help to explain why the controversial movement changed so many young people’s lives
July 2017
Readers recommend
Readers recommend playlist: songs about fads and crazes
Short-lived dances and fashion gimmicks run through your suggestions this week – James Brown, Roxy Music and Sonic Youth all making an appearance
November 2016
Punk funeral: Joe Corré burns £5m of memorabilia on Thames
'Punk is a McDonald's brand': Malcolm McLaren's son on burning £5m of items
