The architect of punk, Malcolm McLaren, remained a rebel to the last as mourners said farewell to a soundtrack of Sid Vicious's 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".
Family, friends, musicians, fashionistas and punk legends saw off the Sex Pistols manager who was laid to rest in Highgate Cemetery - the scene of an infamous performance by him in punk movie The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle.
McLaren - who died from cancer earlier this month aged 64 - was buried close to other important cultural figures at the historic cemetery including Karl Marx and sculptor Henry Moore.
Mourners - including McLaren's former partner Dame Vivienne Westwood, Adam Ant, Bob Geldof and Sex Pistols' drummer Paul Cook - sang along to McLaren's recording of the Max Bygraves song You Need Hands, which had featured in the film.
Pupils from the Tiffin Boys School in Kingston upon Thames also performed the song.
The 200-strong funeral party at a de-consecrated church, One Marylebone, was encouraged to dance around and throw up their hands, which many of them did - as well as shedding a tear.
The coffin was carried from the Sir John Sloane-designed church to the strains of Vicious' raucous version of Frank Sinatra's My Way.
The slogan on McLaren's coffin was the original name of the influential clothes shop he and Dame Vivienne ran in King's Road - later renamed Sex and the nucleus of what became the punk movement in the mid 1970s.
Fashion designer Dame Vivienne paid tribute to her former partner's spirit of rebellion - and urged others to keep it alive. "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."
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