McLaren goes out a punk rebel to the end

The architect of punk, Malcolm McLaren, remained a rebel to the last as mourners yesterday said farewell to a soundtrack of Sid Vicious's raucous My Way.

Hundreds of people lined the streets of north London in tribute as he was carried by horse-drawn carriage in a spray-painted coffin bearing the words "Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die", the original name of the influential clothes shop McLaren and Dame Vivienne Westwoord ran in King's Road

Family, friends, musicians, fashionistas and punk legends saw off the Sex Pistols manager who was laid to rest in Highgate Cemetery – which featured in his punk movie The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle.

McLaren died from cancer earlier this month aged 64.

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Fashion designer Dame Vivienne paid tribute to her former partner's spirit of rebellion. "I am very, very sad that unbelievably Malcolm is dead and I just wanted to say on this cruel, cruel day – get a life, do something with it" she said.

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