Musicians as critics (3 of ??): Malcolm McLaren on rock and roll, rawness, Africa, folk rhythms of the world, the spirit of the hobo (NME, Christmas 1982)

 "Musicians", loosely understood, although Malcolm had broken out as a performing artist by the time he wrote this for the NME Christmas look-back on '82 / look-forward to '83.

Julie versus punk(s)

Julie Burchill had loudly left the NME for greener pastures by around 1981 - but she could be coaxed back for the occasional assassination. 

Here, in a single issue, May 28 1993 - and in fact, as printed, on a single page - she sticks the shiv into two punky old fools she must have rubbed shoulders with down the Roxy many a time: Malcolm McLaren and Siouxsie Sioux. 

Although for a long while a grieving punk epigone herself, insisting that nothing could ever compare to Sex Pistols, by around '83 JB had moved firmly into the acceptance stage of mourning and espoused the view that a properly adult usage of pop would be as an aural after-dinner mint, things like Sade that served as background sounds for grown-up conversation, or sex.  

(via NME 1980s)

Pete Silverton - Malcolm McLaren + Bow Wow Wow - Sounds July 26 1980

Not so much for the writing - although it's ably enough done - as for the Malcolm element. 

Interview as artform.

Jonh Wilde - Malcolm McLaren - Melody Maker - July 8 1989