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Paul Cook, Steve Jones, John Lydon, Glen Matlock, Malcolm McLaren, Sid Vicious, and Helen Wellington-Lloyd in The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980)

Malcolm McLaren: The Embezzler

The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle

Malcolm McLaren credited as playing...

The Embezzler

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  • The Embezzler: How to Manufacture Your Group - "Find yourself four kids. Make sure they hate each other. Make sure they can't play."
  • The Embezzler: Helen, never trust a hippie.
  • The Embezzler: With the line-up complete, we immediately set about to putting our plan into effect: to swindle ours way to the top of the rock and roll industry. It was a plan that within 2 years was bring us close on a million pounds, and a household name as the most notorious, filthy, disgusting, dirtiest rock and roll band in your bloody world.
  • The Embezzler: Lesson seven: cultivate hatred; it is your greatest asset. Here at home, create a tour that no one can turn up to. Throw the groups name away, and leave a question mark in its place. Create confusion. The Sex Pistols made sure that they failed to turn up at certain venues. Reading false rumours wherever they could.

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