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Malcolm McLaren has died in New York, aged 64. The former Sex Pistols manager and impresario had been suffering from cancer and died this morning after complications arising from his illness.

GORDON SWIRE IS SUPPOSED to be sitting next to Ben in this Cadillac. Gordon's the man who inadvertently changed rock'n'roll history - and a good few other things - by introducing his art school pal Malcolm McLaren to his married sister Vivienne Westwood back in 1966. And Ben? He's the art photographer who's Vivienne's son and thus McLaren's step-son. Ben is driving his American motor in the McLaren funeral cortège - a horse-drawn hearse, a dozen limos and a double decker battle bus - that's heading towards Highgate Cemetery. But Gordon Swire's not in the front passenger seat because...

...His coffin, emblazoned with the slogan "too fast to live, too young to die", was carried on a horse-drawn carriage. Mourners included his former partner, fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood, and Sir Bob Geldof. McLaren, who died earlier this month aged 64, will later be buried at Highgate Cemetery in a private service. ...Beverley Gardener, 47, from Camden, went to Sex Pistols concerts in the late 1970s and said: "I just thought I'd come down to see him off. "It's sad, but he was a beautiful man - the king of punk. That is all I can say about him....