Duck Rock by Malcolm McLaren

Duck Rock, the 1983 album from Malcolm McLaren, the man who had managed the Sex Pistols, is a globe-trotting cut-and-paste adventure that took hip-hop to a much wider British audience. McLaren produced it with Trevor Horn, and it hops between South African, Caribbean, Latin American and American sounds, all thrown into the same boiling pot. Horn, Anne Dudley, J. J. Jeczalik and Thomas Dolby played on it, and the side recordings Horn, Dudley and Jeczalik made between takes became the first Art of Noise album.

"Buffalo Gals" and "Double Dutch" were major hits in Britain and across the Atlantic, and clips from the World's Famous Supreme Team radio show link the tracks together. Keith Haring drew the illustration for a sleeve designed by Dondi White and Nick Egan, and the record is dedicated to Harry McClintock, the singer known as Haywire Mac. A 40th anniversary edition followed in 2023.

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