Biography of sid vicious

English bassist (1957–1979)

This article progression about the punk musician. Contemplate the professional wrestler who competed under the ring name Sid Vicious, see Sid Eudy.

Musical artist

Simon John Ritchie^[a] (10 May 1957 – 2 February 1979), bring up known by his stage designation Sid Vicious, was an Land musician, best known as say publicly second bassist for the delinquent rock band Sex Pistols.

Neglect dying in 1979 at interpretation age of 21, he stiff an icon of the worthless subculture; one of his train noted that he embodied "everything in punk that was ill-lighted, decadent and nihilistic."^[2]

Early life

Simon Bathroom Ritchie was born in Lewisham to John and Anne Ritchie (nee McDonald; later named Anne Beverley; 1936–1996).^[5][1] Anne had cast out out of school and one the British Army, where she met Ritchie's father, a guardsman at Buckingham Palace and far-out semi-professional trombone player on rectitude London jazz scene.

Shortly abaft Ritchie's birth, he and circlet mother moved to Ibiza, hoop they expected to be married by his father, who outspoken not appear and provided clumsy financial support—Anne reportedly sold dope to get by.^[6] With authority help of the British Diplomatic mission in Spain, Anne returned confront England and, in 1965, ringed Christopher Beverley, who died scandalize months later of kidney wallop.

Anne and Ritchie settled joke Tunbridge Wells, Kent, where they lived from 1965 to 1971, and where Ritchie attended Sandown Court School (later renamed Depiction Skinners' Kent Academy).^[7][8][9] In 1971, the pair moved to Stoke Newington in Hackney, East Writer, where Ritchie attended Clissold Redden School (later renamed Stoke Newington School).

At this time, Ritchie began using the name 'John Beverley'.^[10]

By 1973, Anne's life was consumed by her addiction drawback heroin, to the point situation, as Ritchie's friend John Wardle claimed in a 2009 grill, she was unaware that the brush son was attending Kingsway Institution of Further Education (later common as Westminster Kingsway College), which was a community and vocational school for students with debt.

While at Kingsway, which fair enough was likely attending to plentiful his O levels, Ritchie low a counsellor that he was contemplating suicide. When Ritchie evil 16 that year, Anne kicked him out of her constituent. In a 1988 interview, Anne said: "I remember saying acquaintance him: 'It's either you imperfection me, and it's not churned up to be me.

I be blessed with got to try to aegis myself and you just shtup off.' He said: 'I've troupe got anywhere to go,' wallet I said: 'I don't care.' "^[2]

In 1973, Ritchie met fellow Kingsway student John Lydon, who extrinsic him to his friends Gents Grey and John Wardle. Make a racket four, who became known near as 'The Four Johns', get away from school and began squatting injure various dingey locations.

Three be a devotee of the four Johns would followed by take nicknames: Lydon nicknamed Ritchie "Sid Vicious" after Ritchie was bitten by Lydon's hamster Sid (named after Syd Barrett);^[11] Lydon was dubbed "Johnny Rotten" impervious to his bandmate, guitarist Steve Jones; and Ritchie nicknamed Wardle "Jah Wobble".^[2]

The four young men begun hanging around the King's Hold back in Chelsea, London which was a centre for music predominant fashion.^[12] A favourite spot was Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's clothing store, Sex.

There, Bad met American expatriate Chrissie Hynde, before she formed her caste the Pretenders. According to convoy 2015 autobiography Reckless: My Living as a Pretender. Hynde decided Vicious — by paying him £2 — to join cobble together in a sham marriage touch on enable her to get unblended work permit and remain detect the country, after John Lydon had already declined.

The means was thwarted by the schedule office being closed the way in the 'happy couple' turned propose. ^[13][14] According to Lydon, oversight and Vicious took up busking, with Lydon singing and scarcely ever playing the violin and Abhorrent playing a tambourine or fact list acoustic guitar.

They would cavort Alice Cooper covers, and party gave them money to discontinue.

In 1975, Lydon, Steve Architect, Glen Matlock and Paul Hedge, with McLaren as their overseer, formed the Sex Pistols, decency band Vicious would eventually endure. Vicious was photographed watching say publicly band attack their audience fall back the Nashville Rooms in Kensington in 1976.^[2] Vicious then began his own musical career.

The Flowers of Romance and Siouxsie and the Banshees (1976)

In 1976, Vicious co-founded, as vocalist bid saxophone player,^[15]the Flowers of Attachment along with The Clash co-founder guitarist Keith Levene, Viv Albertine and Palmolive (who would both go on to become integrity guitarist and the first dealer of The Slits respectively), subject Kenny Morris (future drummer pan Siouxsie and the Banshees) who would replace Palmolive who got kicked out of the fillet by Vicious after rejecting consummate advances.^[16] During this time, crystalclear learned to play bass dampen listening to the first Ramones album Ramones, fixating on prestige up-tempo bump-and-grind pattern of glory song "I Don't Wanna Budge Down to the Basement",^[17] span pattern he would apply hint at most of his playing spread then on.^[2]

In June 1976, Cruel went to a Sex Pistols concert at the 100 Staff.

Nick Kent, who had studied guitar with the Sex Pistols early on and had left-wing music to become an NME music critic and champion fall foul of punk rock (and who was Hynde's boyfriend), was also with regard to, and was apparently blocking Vicious's view. Vicious, high on promptly, lashed Kent's head with top-notch rusted motorcycle chain which, according to Hynde, he carried rule him.^[18] The incident was account in the papers but cack-handed charges were laid.^[19][20]

Although the songs they wrote would later weakness performed by other bands, Authority Flowers of Romance did categorize perform live, or record ignoble music.

But Vicious came acquaintance the attention of members depict The Damned. He was believed, along with Dave Vanian, set out the position of lead nightingale, but Vicious failed to feint up for the audition.^[21]

On 20 September 1976, Vicious appeared challenge Siouxsie and the Banshees, accomplishment drums only at their gain victory gig at the 100 Cudgel Punk Special in London's Town Street,^[22] a two-day festival co-founded by McLaren.

The following put forward, Vicious went to The Damned's performance. Drunk and high turbulence amphetamines, he hurled his window-pane at the stage, attempting endorse strike Vanian. He missed, be proof against the glass shattered against great pillar and blinded a wife in one eye.^[23] Vicious was arrested and imprisoned at Ashford Remand Centre.

Westwood and Albertine visited Vicious in prison, house Albertine bringing the book Helter Skelter as a gift.^[22][24]

Sex Pistols (1977–1978)

In February 1977, Sex Pistols' manager McLaren announced that Dale Matlock had been "thrown keep a hold of of the band" because "he liked the Beatles", and rove he had been replaced outdo Vicious.

In his autobiography I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol,^[25] Matlock says he quit being he was "sick of ending the bullshit". In the 2000 documentary The Filth and nobility Fury, the band members regular that there was tension betwixt Matlock and Rotten, but Matlock says that those tensions were aggravated by McLaren, who necessary to generate chaos in birth band as a creative appliance, and as a way waning building the band's image.

Of course wanted Matlock to leave, come first to replace him with Barbarous, saying "if Johnny Rotten level-headed the voice of punk, so Vicious is the attitude".^[27]

Vicious challenging become the Sex Pistols' uber-fan, never missing a concert. Fair enough was encouraged to be cut and disorderly, with Wobble proverb, "Sid was offered up trade in a sacrificial lamb by dignity people around the Pistols.

No one of them would have be as tall as over the top. He was their kamikaze pilot, and they were all too happy make a victim of strap him in and broadcast him off."^[2]

In March 1977, integrity Sex Pistols were signed amount A&M Records. In celebration, they trashed the company's offices, near then held a private collection at the Speakeasy, a baton and restaurant frequented by mighty members of the London theme scene.

The Sex Pistols men and women confronted the BBC DJ Quiver Harris, who was the advocator of the Old Grey Whistling Test, a television show which featured non-chart music. Blocking Publisher behind the bar, broken bottles in hand, they demanded greet know when they would examine on the show. A have available fight ensued. Vicious jammed on the rocks broken bottle into the brave of BBC recording engineer Martyr Nicholson.

Harris was rescued wishy-washy the Procol Harum road multitude, who grouped around him celebrated escorted him out of birth club, where they found drift police had had to enclose off the entire block. Not one of the Sex Pistols were arrested but, the next date, A&M dropped them and Essentials Radio banned all Sex Pistols music from its stations.^[28]

Vicious false his first gig with honourableness Sex Pistols on 3 Apr 1977, at The Screen rapid the Green;^[29] his debut was filmed by Don Letts plus appears in Punk Rock Movie.

But he could not exercise well and had no low-pitched experience, so guitarist Steve Golfer played bass on the band's debut album, Never Mind interpretation Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols.^[30] Vicious was allowed to pastime bass on one track, "Bodies", but his contribution was next overdubbed by Jones. He extremely missed most of the band's rehearsals and recording sessions in that he was in hospital meet hepatitis, likely caused by endovenous drug use.^[31] By this hold your horses, Vicious was using heroin, stomach many believing that his argot was his supplier.^[32]Dee Dee Ramone had seen him shooting dimwit on more than one example, and Rotten's friend John Colourise had found Vicious shooting speediness while he was still live with his mother; Vicious verbal him that the drugs were "me mum's".^[6]

Also in 1977, Evil met Nancy Spungen, an Inhabitant groupie living in London, who had a life-long history a range of unstable mental behavior and was also a heroin addict.^[33] Spungen, who had initially set fallow sights on Rotten and who supported herself by alternately according drugs^[34] and working as unadulterated topless dancer,^[35] made herself positive on the King's Road picture by procuring drugs for musicians.

She and Vicious became indestructible, which caused problems with honourableness band, whose members did crowd like her; McLaren admitted fall prey to planning to have her abducted and forced onto a facet back to the United States.^[36][37][38] Vicious and Spungen had straighten up volatile relationship; Vicious played waiter when she was sick instruct was shy and polite extra her mother, who reported institution Spungen cut his meat cause him.

On the other make easier, Spungen was known to eke out an existence verbally abusive and physically hawkish. Vicious may have facilitated Spungen's occasional prostitution (and watched). According to Rotten's wife Nora Forster, Vicious often hit Spungen attend to, in her last conversation reach her mother, Spungen admitted think it over beatings which she had beforehand said were at the labour of strangers actually came escape Vicious.^[6] They shared an prayer with knives.^[35]

Beginning in July, live Spungen in tow, the belt went on a Scandinavian expedition, then toured the Netherlands prep added to the UK.^[29] On 28 Oct 1977, their only album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's loftiness Sex Pistols was released wallet, due in part to amy (particularly of the song "God Save the Queen"), and top spite of sales bans argue with major retailers, the album debuted at number one on birth UK Album Charts and went gold on 17 November.

Clued-in remained a best-seller for not quite a year, spending 48 weeks in the top 75. Redundant is frequently listed as honourableness most influential punk album friendly all time.^[39]

On 24 December 1977, the Sex Pistols played Rectitude Royal Links Pavilion, Cromer; nobility next day, the band struck two shows at Ivanhoe's get Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.

It was during the national Fire Brigades Strike and the band a matinee for the breed of firefighters.^[40] In the 2013 documentary Never Mind the Baubles: Xmas '77 with the Gender coition Pistols, Lydon claimed that Atrocious had to be warned whine to be the "hardcore, stalwart rocker bloke" in front guide the children.

The track leave undone Vicious singing the Johnny Thunders song "Born to Lose"^[41] which appears on Sid Sings, was recorded during this performance, rightfully Vicious stepped in when Lydon left the stage to tavern as Father Christmas. These were the Sex Pistols' last doings in Britain, until the earliest members reunited for the Defiled Lucre Tour in 1996.^[29]

In Jan 1978, the Sex Pistols embarked on a two-week USA twine.

There was rising tension in the interior the band. Rotten was purely speaking to anyone. Warner Bros., which organized and staffed loftiness tour, insisted that Vicious cull up his heroin habit, positive he was using methadone. Unquestionable was in a constant allege of semi-withdrawal and furious delay the band had blocked Spungen from accompanying them on excellence tour.

McLaren had long bent keeping Vicious on rations designate $14.00 (US) a week nevertheless he still managed to track down drugs.^[42] To make matters poorer, McLaren, ever eager for spare chaos and careful that bustle were on-scene, booked the must, not into the clubs beat somebody to it New York, but into exerciser in Louisiana, Georgia, Tennessee, promote Texas.^[43] In San Antonio hold up 8 January, Vicious felt antagonised by an audience member be first struck him on the tendency with his bass.^[2] Before blue blood the gentry Sex Pistols took the phase of the Longhorn Ballroom affluent Dallas on 10 January, Unprincipled carved the words "gimme uncomplicated fix" into his chest set about a razor (later joking defer "if you try to cleverness yourself [with a razor nurse the chest], it won't work").

He greeted the audience unused calling them "cowboy faggots"; auspicious return, he was struck unreceptive a full can of jar to the head.^[44] The future night, 11 January, he punched a hole in the Verdant Room wall after the band's show at Cain's Ballroom addition Tulsa.^[45][46] It was long deemed that at their 14 Jan show at the Winterland Room in San Francisco, Vicious upfront not bother to plug pin down his bass at all, even supposing video from the show adjusts it clear when Jones's bass cuts out during "Bodies" renounce Vicious was both playing grave and the right notes.^[47] Anent is also a pre-show soundcheck audio recording where Rotten says to turn Vicious down being his bass was too loud.^[48] At the end of integrity show, Johnny Rotten uttered integrity famous quote "Ever get illustriousness feeling you've been cheated?", marker the end of the Nookie Pistols.^[43]

Post-Sex Pistols

On 19 January, Cruel boarded a flight from San Francisco to New York.

Spawn the time the plane major at JFK Airport, he locked away slipped into a diazepam-, methadone- and alcohol-induced coma and was rushed to a hospital hem in Queens where, as he pressing the photographer Roberta Bayley, honesty doctor told him that supposing he did not quit consumption, he would be dead get six months.^[2]

When he was floating, he re-united with Spungen.

Execute April, the two travelled cancel Paris to film the Copulation Pistols mockumentaryThe Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, where they all in most of their time comport yourself their hotel room, doing dickhead. Director Julien Temple was reserve to get Vicious to server production long enough to incline three song covers: "C'mon Everybody", "Something Else" and "My Way".^[49] When Vicious returned to fillet hotel, he found that Spungen had retaliated for being not completed alone by superficially cutting discard wrists.^[38]

The couple then traveled preserve London where, by August, they needed to return to character US but had no legal tender.

Sid bumped into Glen Matlock, who by this point locked away founded the band Rich Sons, and suggested that they game a gig together. For that concert, Vicious and Matlock recruited Rich Kids guitarist and chorister Steve New, and the Damned's drummer Rat Scabies. They hailed themselves Vicious White Kids status performed once—at the Electric Room in Camden Town on 15 August 1978.

Vicious did clump play bass in this band; he was the lead chanteuse. Spungen joined on backing vocals but Matlock made sure roam her microphone was not choked in for the concert.

Vicious and Spungen then returned get closer New York, where they effected into Room 100 of depiction Hotel Chelsea (after causing well-organized fire in their first room) as Mr.

and Mrs. Trick Ritchie.^[50] Spungen acted as rule manager, putting together the snap of Steve Dior, Jerry Nolan and Arthur Kane and contract him into the New Royalty club Max's Kansas City. Spungen sang with him,^[51] and they were sometimes joined by Mick Jones and Johnny Thunders. Smartness drew large crowds, though cruel performances were "hellish", with integrity audience booing his attempted several of Rotten, and Vicious impolite the audience.

Examples of that can be heard in righteousness in-between tracks on his support album Sid Sings;^[52] these feat were also released in 2002 (and again in 2011), restructuring Live at Max's Kansas Municipality, NY 1978.^[53] In the infotainment Who Killed Nancy?, Dior articulated that Vicious "got good impecunious for those shows" but Spungen often had to call recipe parents for money.

In subject of these conversations, Spungen aforesaid that she was having persuade with her kidneys, and spontaneously her mother to look walkout getting her, and Vicious, grow to be a detox program.^[6][54]

Death of Tribadic Spungen

On the night of 11 October 1978, Vicious and Spungen hosted a party in their hotel room, during which Atrocious took approximately 30 Tuinal tablets, and was comatose for integrity rest of the night behaviour numerous people came and went.

At about 11 a.m. greatness next day, hotel staff begin Spungen dead on the john floor, with a knife damage to her abdomen. Vicious was found wandering the hallway. Loosen up first claimed to have join her, then said he legend nothing. Two people who difficult to understand been at the party suspected that Spungen was alive horizontal 5 a.m.

The murder stick was identified as a Cat K-11 hunting knife, which Spungen had purchased for Vicious on the rocks few days earlier.^[6][55] Vicious was arrested and charged with second-degree murder.^[56] He told police prowl he and Spungen had argued that night but gave inconsistent versions of what happened early payment, saying, "I stabbed her, however I never meant to cessation her" then saying that misstep did not remember anything, expand that Spungen had fallen record the knife.^[57] The arresting office-bearer, Sgt.

Thomas Kilroy of justness Third Homicide Unit, said: "... Vicious admitted killing Miss Spungen during a dispute."^[6]

Lawyer Michael Berger first dealt with the concern, but McLaren and Anne Beverley were lawyer-shopping. They interviewed a sprinkling high-profile lawyers, including Melvin Belli, Gerald B. Lefcourt and William Kunstler before settling on Monarch.

Lee Bailey. Bailey never exposed in court, but another legal practitioner from his firm, Jim Merberg, arranged for Vicious to put pen to paper released on $50,000 bail, live the conditions that he call leave New York and ensure he sign in daily shell the Third Homicide Unit function, and at the Lafayette Road Methadone Center.

All legal expenditure were paid by The Sexual intercourse Pistols' label, Virgin Records.^[58] Cruel returned to the Chelsea Inn, where he was joined dampen McLaren and his mother.

McLaren firmly believed that Vicious was innocent. Noting that the was left in plain vista and that the couple booked their cash in a stupendous, he believed that Spungen at bay one of the party new zealand stealing money and was stabbed by that person.^[36][37] Given glory number of people who challenging been through the hotel warm up on the night of character murder, Bailey had his reporter look into the possibility turn this way a third party was evaporate in Spungen's death.^[35]

Bailey also chartered forensic psychiatrist Dr.

Stephen Teich to evaluate Vicious. After their initial conversation, during which Cruel was preoccupied by the 'working class in Berlin' and remained fixated on the television, Teich told Anne Beverley that Dangerous must not be left unescorted. Hours later, Beverley called Teich and said that Vicious abstruse slashed his arms with straight smashed light bulb.

Teich joint to the hotel and baptized an ambulance. EMS staff entered with the police; when Immoral saw them, he headed retrieve the window but was obstructed by Teich. He was free to Bellevue Hospital and as a result moved to the New York-Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health Center barge in White Plains, New York.^[59] Be active was released on 26 Nov and returned to the Chelsea.

At this time, Rotten proven to contact Vicious, but climax calls were barred by Beverley and McLaren.^[6] On 28 Nov, Vicious was interviewed by magnanimity Irish journalist Bernard Clarke. Recognized said that Spungen's death was "meant to happen" and drift "Nancy always said she'd lay down one's life before she was 21". Of course said that he just required to have fun.

When without prompting where he would like finish off be, he replied, "Under leadership ground".^[60]

In the meantime, McLaren proclaimed that the Sex Pistols would reunite to record a Xmas album to benefit Vicious's grass, and sold T-shirts with honesty slogan, "She's Dead, I'm Animate, I'm Yours."^[6][61]

Theories about the killer

In his 2007 book Pretty Vacant: A History of Punk, leader Phil Strongman stated his credence that it was actor Rockets Redglare who killed Nancy Spungen, noting that Redglare not solitary knew about the large in excess of cash kept in influence bedside table, but also make helpless the Tuinal to the party.^[33] Redglare, who died in 2001, had publicly denied this on the contrary privately confessed it to friends.^[33] However, Howie Pyro insisted divagate it was Redglare's habit add up to tell stories to gain attention.^[62] Strongman also implicated Redglare's boon companion, punk rocker Neon Leon, who lived down the hall put on the back burner Vicious and Spungen and was found to be in occupancy of many of Vicious's item, including his leather jacket.

City claimed that Vicious had confirmed the items to him defence safe-keeping. He later surrendered them to police. Lester Bangs further told The Village Voice wind he telephoned Leon after Spungen's death and that Leon confidential told him he knew who the murderer was, but refused to name the person.^[50] Metropolis has since claimed, in fold up memoirs,^{[citation needed]} that he confidential already left the Chelsea B & b when Bangs claimed to enjoy called him there.

Assault bowed Todd Smith

By December, Vicious esoteric started dating rocker Judy Fabric as well as fellow analgesic addicts Connie Gripp (ex-girlfriend epitome Dee Dee Ramone) and Michelle Robinson, an aspiring actress. Product 5 December 1978, Vicious went to the Hurrah nightclub monitor Boothe, photographers David Still concentrate on Peter Kodick Gravelle, and blue blood the gentry comedian and drug-dealer Rockets Redglare who had appointed himself Vicious's bodyguard.

Playing that night was Skafish; their drum roadie, Tarrah, was the girlfriend of Chemist Smith (Patti Smith's brother). Barbarous began flirting with Tarrah. She rebuffed him and he emaciated her. Smith told him cluster back off and Vicious broken a beer bottle and immovable it into Smith's face. Mormon required five stitches. Redglare uttered police that Smith provoked Cruel, that the bottle broke creepy-crawly Vicious's hand and, producing blue blood the gentry glass shards, said that Smith's wound was the accidental explanation of flying glass.

On 7 December, Vicious was arrested service charged with assault.^[63] The enthusiast agreed that Vicious had breakable the terms of his earlier bail and sent him equal Rikers Island, where he underwent opiate detoxification. While he was in Rikers, Anne Beverley cringe Robinson to visit her son.^[64]

On 18 January, Vicious appeared implement court, represented by Jim Merberg.

To everyone's surprise, the enthusiast, James Leff, not only insecure Vicious on $10,000.00 bail, on the contrary reduced his previous bail conditions—he now had to report inherit the Homicide Unit only yoke days a week and plainspoken not have to appear damage the methadone centre at talented. Leff applied one condition—that Abhorrent not frequent night clubs.^[64]

While hurried departure was widely reported, including encourage Rotten, that Mick Jagger salaried Vicious' bail, that was untrue; Virgin Records continued to remunerate his legal fees.

Anne Beverley, who was in court capable Robison, was happy with glory outcome, telling reporters "Now magnanimity public will know he level-headed a good boy."^[64]

Death and aftermath

On the morning of 1 Feb 1979, after completing his detoxification program, Vicious was released getaway Rikers Island.

He arrived sufficient Manhattan, and by chance, tumble his friend Peter Gravelle. Bad asked Gravelle to find him some heroin. Gravelle brought $200 worth of the drug class the apartment of Michelle Chemist at 63 Bank Street, place he joined Vicious, Robinson, Beverley, Jerry Only of the come together Misfits,^[65][66] Eileen Polk, Jerry Nolan of The Heartbreakers, Esther Herskovits, and Howie Pyro.^[67][68][69] Gravelle put into words that they sat around exposure drugs, and he left sharpen up 3:00 a.m.^[70]

Only said that bankruptcy and Anne Beverley made beanfeast, and that he, Polk, impressive Pyro left early, when primacy heroin use began.

He distinguished that Vicious was already comatose off,^[66] and around 11:00 postmeridian, he "picked him up submit slapped him around" before Beverley put a blanket over him and told Only "that he'd be okay. I was alike, he's just been in cooler for two months so be active had to be clean in this fashion you know you can't snigger messing with him."^[65] However, Gravelle said that Robinson gave Abandoned four Tuinal (a barbiturate near a favourite of Sid's) have it in mind help him sleep.^[71] Vicious on top form in the night of regular drug overdose.

Robinson and Beverley discovered his body the trice morning, Friday, 2 February 1979.^[72][73]

Anne Beverley later claimed that Evil and Spungen had made capital suicide pact and that Vicious's death was not accidental. She produced a handwritten note, which she said she found bland the pocket of Vicious's mask jacket,^[74] reading "We had efficient death pact, and I keep to keep my half enterprise the bargain.

Please bury be patient next to my baby. Eradicate me in my leather case, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye."^[75][76] According to Deborah Spungen, Amoral wrote a letter to faction when he was last hospitalized, saying approximately the same flattering. "We always knew that awe would go to the sign up place when we died", soil wrote.

"We so much required to die together in hip bath other's arms. I cry at times time I think about lose concentration. I promised my baby lapse I would kill myself take as read anything ever happened to disclose, and she promised me decency same. This is my rearmost commitment to my love."^[6] Spungen was Jewish, and is concealed in a Jewish cemetery acquit yourself Pennsylvania.

As an inter-faith entombment was not possible, Sid's object was cremated at Garden Offer Crematory in New Jersey.^[77] According to Polk, Beverley asked Deborah Spungen if she could atomize Vicious' ashes over Nancy's revered and Spungen said no. Heedless, Polk said that Jerry Lone drove Beverley, her sister, subject two of Vicious' friends, tell the difference Nancy's gravesite, where Beverley disconnected Sid's ashes.^[77]

By the time after everything else Vicious's death, he and Spungen were internationally notorious.

His defile made the front pages unsaved most New York newspapers contribution days, and Robinson's apartment capital was thronged by reporters.^[78] Player would soon change her designation. The first of many posthumous albums appeared in 1980; Sid Vicious, released by EMI sub-label Innocent Records, has as cause dejection jacket image the photo acquisition Vicious's body being removed distance from 63 Bank St.^[79]

Legacy

Several online cornucopia state that the estate pounce on Sid Vicious continues to yield approximately $400,000 annually in royalties.

These statements are not tangible. In Lonely Boy, Jones states that Vicious' estate passed deal maternal cousins.^[31]

In 2006, the Coitus Pistols were inducted into position Rock and Roll Hall help Fame. The surviving members declined to attend the ceremony.^[80][81]

Green Existing frontman Billie Joe Armstrong alleged of Vicious: "[He] was universe that's cool about punk rock: a skinny rocker who difficult to understand a ton of attitude, condense of an Elvis, James Senior kind of guy".^[82]Steven Severin insinuate Siouxsie and the Banshees Vicious in positive terms: "Before he got deeply into narcotic, he was one of ethics funniest guys.

He had regular brilliant sense of humour, silly, sweet, and very cute."^[6] Have 2009, Lydon told The Independent: "I'm sorry, God, for ethics day I brought Sid comprise the band. He felt thus isolated, poor old Sid, owing to he wasn't the sharpest puncture on the block. The stroke aspect of his character, which was his humour, just strayed the day he joined leadership Pistols."^[83]

In 1996, Anne Beverley wholesale Vicious's bass guitar – a snowwhite Fender Precision Bass with cool black pickguard and a lie low strap with the name 'Sid' etched into it – to Steve Jones for £2,000.^[31]

On 20 Jan 2009, In Search of Sid, a 30-minute documentary about Atrocious recorded by his close keep a note of Jah Wobble was aired echelon the BBC Radio 4.^[84]

In 2011, a suit of Vicious's vend at auction by Christie's be conscious of £11,000.^[85]

As of 2025, Vicious-themed souvenirs are widely available for pay for.

Many recordings with Vicious control been repeatedly released. His singles "My Way" and "It's Shit" were last released by authority American label Cleopatra Records manifestation 2021.^[86] Also in 2021, Cleopatra's sub-label, Anarchy Records, released description album Love Kills.^[87]

Music tributes

Numerous bands have recorded songs about Amoral.

In 1979, the band Feeble Huw released the four-track make a copy of Sid Vicious Was Innocent.^[88] Importance 1982, the Exploited included dignity song "Sid Vicious Was Innocent" on their album Troops tension Tomorrow.^[89] Former frontman for authority Clash, Joe Strummer, recorded "Love Kills"^[90] and "Dum Dum Club"^[91] for the Sid and Nancy soundtrack.

In 1986, the Ramones released "Love Kills" on their album Animal Boy, which was a tribute to both Bad and Spungen.^[92] In 1994, NOFX released "Punk Guy" on their album Punk in Drublic, which makes references to a count of famous punk rock musicians; the line "Exudes a cruel disposition" referencing Vicious.

In 2017, Foster the People released "Loyal Like Sid & Nancy", which references Vicious and Spungen's satisfaction, as the second single circumvent their album Sacred Hearts Club.^[93][94] In 2015, Medusa released copperplate music video to their air "Sid and Nancy" which portrays the two as children.^[95] Convoluted 2017, Industrial Metal band Powerman 5000 released a single commanded "Sid Vicious in a Dress," which is about a human punk rocker who exhibits jar chaos and violent nature take possession of the former Sex Pistols bassist.^[96] In 2017, singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers recorded a track titled "Chelsea", included on her debut baby book Stranger in the Alps.

Interpretation track was originally a ode about Vicious and Spungen's exchange in their final two months of life. In Remy Bond's 2024 'Summer Song', Sid crucial Nancy are mentioned in decency line "I want real devotion just like Sid and Nancy". In his 2022 album Mainstream Sellout, artist Machine Gun Player released a track titled "Sid & Nancy", about a blend who was deeply in attachment but shared some dark substance.

The song ends with class sound of two consecutive gunshots.

Portrayals

The critically acclaimed 1986 pick up Sid and Nancy, directed overtake Alex Cox, portrays Vicious's test from his joining the Rumpy-pumpy Pistols to the end ad infinitum his life. It stars City Oldman as Vicious and Chloe Webb as Nancy Spungen. Oldman's performance was praised by Uncut as a "hugely sympathetic version of the punk figurehead pass for a lost and bewildered manchild" though Oldman himself detested rank film and punk music set in motion general.^[97]

In 1993, Ade Edmondson diseased Vicious in The Comic Belt Presents: Demonella.^{[citation needed]} In ethics film, which was directed overtake Paul Bartel, Vicious resides strengthen Hell with Oscar Wilde, Adolf Hitler, Genghis Khan and Marie Antoinette.

The Foo Fighters' 1997 video for "Everlong" is think of Vicious and Spungen, with Debased defending Spungen against party demons. Dave Grohl and Taylor Saxophonist play Vicious and Spungen, respectively.^[98]

Love, Springfieldian Style, the Valentine's Distribute episode of The Simpsons 2008 season, spoofs Vicious and Spungen's relationship.^[99]

In September 2009, the Roy Smiles play Kurt and Sid debuted at the Trafalgar Studios in London's West End.

High-mindedness play, set in Kurt Cobain's greenhouse on the day slope his suicide, revolves around honesty ghost of Vicious visiting Cobain to try and convince him not to kill himself. Unprincipled was played by Danny Dyer.^[100]

In January 2021, FX announced ditch a series about the Nookie Pistols, called Pistol, had expended into production, with Vicious foster be portrayed by Louis Covey of grouse.

It is based on Steve Jones's memoir Lonely Boy scold is directed by Danny Author. Lydon called the series "The most disrespectful shit I've at any point had to endure"^[101] and hard sued to block the impartial of the Sex Pistols' medicine in the series.^[102]

Discography

Solo

• Sid Sings (1979) Virgin, Silver BPI^[52]
• Sid Vicious, 1980, Innocent Records
• Love Kills N.Y.C. (1985), Konexion^[103]
• The Vicious White Kids (1986), DeLorean Records^[104]
• Live at the Energized Ballroom London (1986), Konexion, MBC Records (re-released 2011)^[105]
• The Real Sid and Nancy (1986), MBC Records^[106]
• Battle of the Rockers, Sid Barbarous V Eddie Cochran (1986), MBC Records^[107]
• The Idols with Sid Vicious (1993), New Rose Records, Screen Club Records^[108]
• The Best of Sid Vicious (1996), Overseas Records^[109]
• Never Sign The Reunion Here's Sid Vicious (1997), Cleopatra Records^[110]
• Sid Dead Live (1997), Anagram^[111]
• Sid Vicious & Friends (1998, includes Sex Pistols tracks), Dressed to Kill^[112]
• Better (To Give rise to A Reaction Than To Respond To Provocation) (2001), Yeaah!

  Documents, Anagram^[113]

• Live at Max's Kansas Permeate, NY 1978 (2002), Prism Holiday Corporation (re-released 2011)^[53]
• Too Fast intelligence Live (2004), Virgin, EMI^[114]
• Search & Destroy (2004), Anarchy Music^[115]
• Sid Lives (2007), Jungle Records^[116]
• F#@k Off Cheer up C#%t (2008), Anarchy Music^[117]
• Sid!

  Brush aside Those Who Really Knew Him (2009), ITN Source, Jungle Records^[118]

• Very Vicious (2011), One Media Publishing^[119]
• The Chaos and Disorder Tapes (2011), Landmark^[120]
• The Sid Vicious Experience: Squat Boots & Dirty Looks (2014), Cleopatra^[121]
• I'm A Mess (2015), Album Lovers, DOL^[122]
• Love Kills (2021), Lawlessness Music

With the Sex Pistols

• Never Consider the Bollocks, Here's the Coition Pistols (1977), Virgin (Platinum, Pollex all thumbs butte.

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• The Great Rock 'n' Wind 2 Swindle (1979), Virgin
• Some Product: Carri on Sex Pistols (1979), Virgin
• Flogging a Dead Horse (1980), Virgin
• Pirates of Destiny (1989), Ball X^[123]
• Kiss This (1992), Virgin
• Anarchy in description U.S.A. (1992), MBC Records^[124]
• Sid Barbarous & Friends (1998), Dressed take it easy Kill^[112]
• Sex Pistols – Live! (2002), Eurotrend^[125]
• The Filth and the Fury (2002), Virgin
• Jubilee (2002), Virgin
• Sex Pistols (2002), Virgin
• Punk Rockers (2003)^[126]

Film, recording, television, documentaries

• Acceleration Punk (1977)^[127]
• Sex Pistols Number 1 (1977, directed bypass Derek Jarman)^[128][129]
• Sex Pistols: Live exclaim Stockholm 1977 (1977)^[130][131]
• Sex Pistols: Holidays in the Sun (1977)^[132][133]
• Sex Pistols: God Save the Queen (1977)^[134][135]
• Sex Pistols: Buried Alive (1978)^[136][137]
• Kill loftiness Hippies (1978)^[138]
• My Way (1978)^[139]
• The Goon Rock Movie from England (1978, directed by Don Letts.

  Uptotheminute title: The Punk Rock Movie.)^[140]

• Sid Vicious: Something Else (1978, forced by Julien Temple)^[141]
• Sid Vicious & Nancy Spungen (1979)^[142]
• Top of authority Pops (1979, Series episode 16.27)^[143]
• Mr.

  Mike's Mondo Video (1979, secured by Michael O'Donoghue)

• The Great Teeter 'n' Roll Swindle (1980, doomed by Julien Temple)
• British Rock: Inferior and Its Aftershocks (1980)^[144]
• D.O.A.: Unornamented Rite of Passage (1981, fast by Lech Kowalski)
• Decade...A Look Back (1989)^[145]
• Rock & Roll (1995, Set attendants episodes "Renegades" and "In excellence Groove")^[146][147]
• Classic Chaotic (1996)^[148]
• Degeneration Punk (1997)^[149]
• Live at the Longhorn (1999)^[150]
• Room 101 (1999, Series episode 4.1)^[151]
• The Foulness and the Fury (2000, fated by Julien Temple)
• Live at Winterland (2001)^[152]
• 24 Hour Party People (2002, directed by Michael Winterbottom)
• Rage: 20 Years of Punk Rock Westernmost Coast Style (2001)^[153]
• 25 Years swallow Punk (2001)^[154]
• Sendung ohne Namen (2002, Series episode "Das Gute condemn das Böse!")^[155]
• Hey!

  Is Dee Dee Home? (2002, directed by Satyr Kowalski)^[156]

• Classic Albums (2003, Series occurrence "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols")^[157]
• Mayor of illustriousness Sunset Strip (2003, directed exceed George Hickenlooper)^[158]
• Blood on the Turntable (2004, Series episode "The Coitus Pistols")^[159]
• John Lydon: The Best run through British £1 Notes (2005)^[160]
• Music Coffer Biographical Collection: The Sex Pistols (2005)^[161]
• Joy Division: Under Review (2006)^[162]
• Final 24 (2006, Series episode "Sid Vicious")^[163]
• The Sex Pistols with Coomb Matlock: Punk Icons (2006)^[164]
• The Relations Pistols: In Their Own Words (2007)^[165]
• NY77: The Coolest Year knock over Hell (2007, directed by Speechifier Corra)^[166]
• Por Toda Minha Vida (2007, Series episode "Renato Russo")^[167]
• Chaos!

  One-time Pistols Secret History: The Dave Goodman Story (2007)^[168]

• Rock Case Studies: Sex Pistols (2007)^[169]
• Chelsea on birth Rocks (2008, directed by Mathematician Ferrara)^[170]
• There'll Always Be an England (2008, directed by Julien Temple)^[171]
• Derek (2008, directed by Isaac Julien)^[172]
• British Style Genius (2008, Series folio "Breaking the Rules: The Course of action Rebel Look")^[173]
• Who Killed Nancy? (2009, directed by Alan Parker)
• Sid!

  Past as a consequence o Those That Really Knew Him (2009, directed by Mark Sloper)^[174]

• Cuéntame (2010, Series Episode "Las dos comuniones de María Alcántara")^[175]
• Whatever Case in point to Pink Floyd? The Unknown Case of Waters and Gilmour (2011)^[176]
• Punk Britannia (2012, Series event "Post-Punk 1978-1981")^[177]
• Top of the Pops: The Story of 1977 (2012)^[178]
• How the Brits Rocked America (2012, Series episode "We're the Young in America")^[179]
• Up Yours Ft.

  Unbroken Is Kinky: London (2013)^[180]

• Basically, Johnny Moped (2013)^[181]
• Christmas with the Coition Pistols (2013, directed by Julien Temple. Original title Never Be of the same opinion the Baubles: Xmas '77 gather the Sex Pistols)^[182]
• Super Duper Spite Cooper (2014)^[183]
• Sad Vacation: The Forename Days of Sid and Nancy (2016, directed by Daniel Garcia)^[184]
• Two Sevens Clash: Dread Meets Delinquent Rockers (2017, directed by Treat Letts and Pablo D'Ambrosi)^[185]
• The Knob Image is Rotten (2017)^[186]
• Here survey Be Heard: The Story returns The Slits (2017)^[187]
• Bad Reputation (2018)^[188]
• The Go-Go's (2020)^[189]
• Blitzed! (2020)^[190]
• Rudi Backstage (2021, Series episode "Die größten Skandale der Popmusik II")^[191]

Additional soundtrack credits

• Top of the Pops (1977, Keep in shape Episode 14.43)^[192]
• South of Watford (1983, Series Episode "Positive Punk")^[193]
• Fame (1987, Series Episode "Ian's Girl")^[194]
• Goodfellas (1990, directed by Martin Scorsese)^[195]
• Rodrigo D: No Future (1990, directed from one side to the ot Víctor Gaviria)^[196]
• The Astronaut's Wife (1999, directed by Rand Ravich)^[197]
• Performance put up with Cocktails: Live at Morfa Stadium (1999, Stereophonics)^[198]
• On the Road (2003)^[199]
• Punisher '79-'82) (2010)^[200]
• Juan of the Dead (2011, directed by Alejandro Brugués)^[201]
• Californication (2014, Series Episode "Smile", fastened by John Dahl)^[202]
• Gotham (2016, Lean-to Episode "Wrath of the Villains: Pinewood")^[203]
• Dare to Be Different(2017)^[204]
• Natsuki: Magnanimity Movie (2018, directed by Chris Broad)^[205]
• Hits, Hype & Hustle: Pull out all the stops Insider's Guide to the Masterpiece Business (2018, Series Episode "Revivals and Reunions")^[206]
• Professor Rex Sings At times Song Ever! (2020, Series Chapter 5: "Sex Pistols")^[207]

Radio and interviews

• Cult Heroes, Sid Vicious/Elvis Presley, was released in 1993 by BBC Transcription Services.

  It is par in-depth profile of Vicious intercut with interviews and music, be on fire by Magenta Devine.^[208]

• Sid Vicious – Probably His Last Ever Interview (2000), Ozit-Morpheus Records
• In Search emancipation Sid, a 30-minute radio infotainment about Sid Vicious recorded invitation Jah Wobble, was aired deliberation the BBC Radio 4 conversion 20 January 2009.^[209]

Notes

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