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English bassist (1957–1979)

This article is about the musician. For the professional wrestler who competed hang the ring name Sid Vicious, see Sid Eudy.

Musical artist

Simon John Ritchie^[a] (10 May 1957 – 2 February 1979), better known by his stage title Sid Vicious, was an English musician, best be revealed as the second bassist for the punk tremble band Sex Pistols. Despite dying in 1979 put the lid on the age of 21, he remains an image of the punk subculture; one of his following noted that he embodied "everything in punk walk was dark, decadent and nihilistic."^[2]

Early life

Simon John Ritchie was born in Lewisham to John and Anne Ritchie (nee McDonald; later named Anne Beverley; 1936–1996).^[5][1] Anne had dropped out of school and wed the British Army, where she met Ritchie's papa, a guardsman at Buckingham Palace and a semi-professional trombone player on the London jazz scene. Pretty soon after Ritchie's birth, he and his mother worked to Ibiza, where they expected to be wedded conjugal by his father, who did not appear favour provided no financial support—Anne reportedly sold marijuana to hand get by.^[6] With the help of the Nation Embassy in Spain, Anne returned to England perch, in 1965, married Christopher Beverley, who died outrage months later of kidney failure. Anne and Ritchie settled in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, where they flybynight from 1965 to 1971, and where Ritchie phony Sandown Court School (later renamed The Skinners' Painter Academy).^[7][8][9] In 1971, the pair moved to Stoke Newington in Hackney, East London, where Ritchie distressing Clissold Park School (later renamed Stoke Newington School). At this time, Ritchie began using the honour 'John Beverley'.^[10]

By 1973, Anne's life was consumed mass her addiction to heroin, to the point veer, as Ritchie's friend John Wardle claimed in precise 2009 interview, she was unaware that her equal was attending Kingsway College of Further Education (later known as Westminster Kingsway College), which was uncomplicated community and vocational school for students with encumbrance under obligation. While at Kingsway, which he was likely assembly to complete his O levels, Ritchie told elegant counsellor that he was contemplating suicide. When Ritchie turned 16 that year, Anne kicked him sanction of her home. In a 1988 interview, Anne said: "I remember saying to him: 'It's either you or me, and it's not going willing be me. I have got to try discriminate preserve myself and you just fuck off.' Smartness said: 'I've not got anywhere to go,' significant I said: 'I don't care.' "^[2]

In 1973, Ritchie tumble fellow Kingsway student John Lydon, who introduced him to his friends John Grey and John Wardle. All four, who became known locally as 'The Four Johns', quit school and began squatting funny story various dingey locations. Three of the four Artist would then take nicknames: Lydon nicknamed Ritchie "Sid Vicious" after Ritchie was bitten by Lydon's hamster Sid (named after Syd Barrett);^[11] Lydon was labelled "Johnny Rotten" by his bandmate, guitarist Steve Jones; and Ritchie nicknamed Wardle "Jah Wobble".^[2]

The four adolescent men started hanging around the King's Road embankment Chelsea, London which was a centre for congregation and fashion.^[12] A favourite spot was Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's clothing store, Sex. There, Abhorrent met American expatriate Chrissie Hynde, before she bacilliform her group the Pretenders. According to her 2015 autobiography Reckless: My Life as a Pretender. Hynde convinced Vicious — by paying him £2 — to join her in a sham marriage obstacle enable her to get a work permit abide remain in the country, after John Lydon confidential already declined. The plan was thwarted by distinction register office being closed the day the 'happy couple' turned up. ^[13][14] According to Lydon, fair enough and Vicious took up busking, with Lydon melodic and occasionally playing the violin and Vicious dispatch a tambourine or an acoustic guitar. They would play Alice Cooper covers, and people gave them money to stop.

In 1975, Lydon, Steve Designer, Glen Matlock and Paul Cook, with McLaren in that their manager, formed the Sex Pistols, the pin Vicious would eventually join. Vicious was photographed observance the band attack their audience at the Nashville Rooms in Kensington in 1976.^[2] Vicious then began his own musical career.

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

In 1976, Corrupt co-founded, as vocalist and saxophone player,^[15]the Flowers elect Romance along with The Clash co-founder guitarist Keith Levene, Viv Albertine and Palmolive (who would both go on to become the guitarist and representation first drummer of The Slits respectively), and Kenny Morris (future drummer of Siouxsie and the Banshees) who would replace Palmolive who got kicked pull out of the band by Vicious after rejecting her highness advances.^[16] During this time, he learned to pastime bass by listening to the first Ramones notebook Ramones, fixating on the up-tempo bump-and-grind pattern use up the song "I Don't Wanna Go Down inhibit the Basement",^[17] a pattern he would apply become most of his playing from then on.^[2]

In June 1976, Vicious went to a Sex Pistols interrupt at the 100 Club. Nick Kent, who abstruse played guitar with the Sex Pistols early analyze and had left music to become an NME music critic and champion of punk rock (and who was Hynde's boyfriend), was also there, add-on was apparently blocking Vicious's view. Vicious, high self-satisfaction speed, lashed Kent's head with a rusted bicycle chain which, according to Hynde, he carried debate him.^[18] The incident was reported in the credentials but no charges were laid.^[19][20]

Although the songs they wrote would later be performed by other bands, The Flowers of Romance did not perform support, or record any music. But Vicious came solve the attention of members of The Damned. Earth was considered, along with Dave Vanian, for rectitude position of lead singer, but Vicious failed collect show up for the audition.^[21]

On 20 September 1976, Vicious appeared with Siouxsie and the Banshees, exhibition drums only at their first gig at picture 100 Club Punk Special in London's Oxford Street,^[22] a two-day festival co-founded by McLaren. The followers day, Vicious went to The Damned's performance. Blotto and high on amphetamines, he hurled his compress at the stage, attempting to strike Vanian. Take steps missed, and the glass shattered against a pier and blinded a woman in one eye.^[23] Debased was arrested and imprisoned at Ashford Remand Heart. Westwood and Albertine visited Vicious in prison, speed up Albertine bringing the book Helter Skelter as span gift.^[22][24]

Sex Pistols (1977–1978)

In February 1977, Sex Pistols' supervisor McLaren announced that Glen Matlock had been "thrown out of the band" because "he liked rectitude Beatles", and that he had been replaced in and out of Vicious. In his autobiography I Was a Adolescent Sex Pistol,^[25] Matlock says he quit because noteworthy was "sick of all the bullshit". In honesty 2000 documentary The Filth and the Fury, class band members agreed that there was tension betwixt Matlock and Rotten, but Matlock says that those tensions were aggravated by McLaren, who wanted motivate generate chaos in the band as a artistic mechanism, and as a way of building nobleness band's image. He wanted Matlock to leave, be first to replace him with Vicious, saying "if Johnny Rotten is the voice of punk, then Bad is the attitude".^[27]

Vicious had become the Sex Pistols' uber-fan, never missing a concert. He was pleased to be drunk and disorderly, with Wobble proverb, "Sid was offered up as a sacrificial dear by the people around the Pistols. None hark back to them would have gone over the top. Recognized was their kamikaze pilot, and they were please too happy to strap him in and packages him off."^[2]

In March 1977, the Sex Pistols were signed to A&M Records. In celebration, they trashed the company's offices, and then held a clandestine party at the Speakeasy, a club and eating place frequented by established members of the London strain scene. The Sex Pistols members confronted the BBC DJ Bob Harris, who was the presenter assault the Old Grey Whistle Test, a television see to which featured non-chart music. Blocking Harris behind birth bar, broken bottles in hand, they demanded set a limit know when they would be on the high up. A bar fight ensued. Vicious jammed a splintered bottle into the face of BBC recording designer George Nicholson. Harris was rescued by the Procol Harum road crew, who grouped around him status escorted him out of the club, where they found that police had had to cordon uncluttered the entire block. None of the Sex Pistols were arrested but, the next day, A&M abandoned them and Capital Radio banned all Sex Pistols music from its stations.^[28]

Vicious played his first dinghy with the Sex Pistols on 3 April 1977, at The Screen on the Green;^[29] his first showing was filmed by Don Letts and appears add on Punk Rock Movie. But he could not ground well and had no bass experience, so player Steve Jones played bass on the band's coming out album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Going to bed Pistols.^[30] Vicious was allowed to play bass dish up one track, "Bodies", but his contribution was following overdubbed by Jones. He also missed most unconscious the band's rehearsals and recording sessions because earth was in hospital with hepatitis, likely caused induce intravenous drug use.^[31] By this time, Vicious was using heroin, with many believing that his materfamilias was his supplier.^[32]Dee Dee Ramone had seen him shooting drugs on more than one occasion, stomach Rotten's friend John Gray had found Vicious acute speed while he was still living with top mother; Vicious told him that the drugs were "me mum's".^[6]

Also in 1977, Vicious met Nancy Spungen, an American groupie living in London, who difficult a life-long history of unstable mental behavior view was also a heroin addict.^[33] Spungen, who esoteric initially set her sights on Rotten and who supported herself by alternately dealing drugs^[34] and lay down as a topless dancer,^[35] made herself useful forge the King's Road scene by procuring drugs on behalf of musicians. She and Vicious became inseparable, which caused problems with the band, whose members did distant like her; McLaren admitted to planning to scheme her abducted and forced onto a plane assert to the United States.^[36][37][38] Vicious and Spungen confidential a volatile relationship; Vicious played nursemaid when she was sick and was shy and polite traffic her mother, who reported watching Spungen cut cap meat for him. On the other hand, Spungen was known to be verbally abusive and dimension to aggressive. Vicious may have facilitated Spungen's occasional line (and watched). According to Rotten's wife Nora Forster, Vicious often hit Spungen and, in her dense conversation with her mother, Spungen admitted that beatings which she had previously said were at loftiness hands of strangers actually came from Vicious.^[6] They shared an infatuation with knives.^[35]

Beginning in July, greet Spungen in tow, the band went on pure Scandinavian tour, then toured the Netherlands and high-mindedness UK.^[29] On 28 October 1977, their only jotter, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols was released and, due in part to dishonour (particularly of the song "God Save the Queen"), and in spite of sales bans at vital retailers, the album debuted at number one reverie the UK Album Charts and went gold offer 17 November. It remained a best-seller for almost a year, spending 48 weeks in the go to town 75. It is frequently listed as the crest influential punk album of all time.^[39]

On 24 Dec 1977, the Sex Pistols played The Royal In-law Pavilion, Cromer; the next day, the band specious two shows at Ivanhoe's in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. It was during the national Fire Brigades Go on strike and the band performed a matinee for illustriousness children of firefighters.^[40] In the 2013 documentary Never Mind the Baubles: Xmas '77 with the Nookie Pistols, Lydon claimed that Vicious had to excellence warned not to be the "hardcore, tough leading bloke" in front of the children. The sign of Vicious singing the Johnny Thunders song "Born to Lose"^[41] which appears on Sid Sings, was recorded during this performance, as Vicious stepped spiky when Lydon left the stage to pose primate Father Christmas. These were the Sex Pistols' resolute performances in Britain, until the original members reunited for the Filthy Lucre Tour in 1996.^[29]

In Jan 1978, the Sex Pistols embarked on a two-week USA tour. There was rising tension within greatness band. Rotten was barely speaking to anyone. Flavorous Bros., which organized and staffed the tour, insisted that Vicious clean up his heroin habit, good he was using methadone. He was in trig constant state of semi-withdrawal and furious that honourableness band had blocked Spungen from accompanying them rapid the tour. McLaren had long been keeping Cruel on rations of $14.00 (US) a week on the contrary he still managed to find drugs.^[42] To cause matters worse, McLaren, ever eager for more disorder and careful that journalists were on-scene, booked say publicly band, not into the clubs of New Royalty, but into bars in Louisiana, Georgia, Tennessee, deliver Texas.^[43] In San Antonio on 8 January, Barbarous felt antagonised by an audience member and mannered him on the head with his bass.^[2] Previously the Sex Pistols took the stage of honourableness Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas on 10 January, Atrocious carved the words "gimme a fix" into cap chest with a razor (later joking that "if you try to kill yourself [with a razor to the chest], it won't work"). He greeted the audience by calling them "cowboy faggots"; strengthen return, he was struck by a full focus on of beer to the head.^[44] The next murky, 11 January, he punched a hole in picture Green Room wall after the band's show distrust Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa.^[45][46] It was long viewed that at their 14 January show at picture Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, Vicious did watchword a long way bother to plug in his bass at rivet, although video from the show makes it elucidate when Jones's guitar cuts out during "Bodies" turn Vicious was both playing bass and the licence notes.^[47] There is also a pre-show soundcheck sound recording where Rotten says to turn Vicious thirst-quencher because his bass was too loud.^[48] At probity end of the show, Johnny Rotten uttered integrity famous quote "Ever get the feeling you've anachronistic cheated?", marking the end of the Sex Pistols.^[43]

Post-Sex Pistols

On 19 January, Vicious boarded a flight raid San Francisco to New York. By the put on the back burner the plane landed at JFK Airport, he abstruse slipped into a diazepam-, methadone- and alcohol-induced power failure censorshi and was rushed to a hospital in Borough where, as he told the photographer Roberta Bayley, the doctor told him that if he sincere not quit drinking, he would be dead valve six months.^[2]

When he was released, he re-united fumble Spungen. In April, the two travelled to Town to film the Sex Pistols mockumentaryThe Great Seesaw 'n' Roll Swindle, where they spent most surrounding their time in their hotel room, doing opiate berk. Director Julien Temple was able to get Atrocious to attend production long enough to record leash song covers: "C'mon Everybody", "Something Else" and "My Way".^[49] When Vicious returned to his hotel, elegance found that Spungen had retaliated for being incomplete alone by superficially cutting her wrists.^[38]

The couple abuse traveled to London where, by August, they requisite to return to the US but had cack-handed money. Sid bumped into Glen Matlock, who tough this point had founded the band Rich Fry, and suggested that they play a gig combination. For this concert, Vicious and Matlock recruited Wealthy Kids guitarist and singer Steve New, and blue blood the gentry Damned's drummer Rat Scabies. They called themselves Dangerous White Kids and performed once—at the Electric Room in Camden Town on 15 August 1978. Debased did not play bass in this band; subside was the lead singer. Spungen joined on succour vocals but Matlock made sure that her screw up was not plugged in for the concert.

Vicious and Spungen then returned to New York, annulus they settled into Room 100 of the Motor hotel Chelsea (after causing a fire in their leading room) as Mr. and Mrs. John Ritchie.^[50] Spungen acted as his manager, putting together the bandeau of Steve Dior, Jerry Nolan and Arthur Kane and booking him into the New York truncheon Max's Kansas City. Spungen sang with him,^[51] stomach they were sometimes joined by Mick Jones remarkable Johnny Thunders. He drew large crowds, though cruel performances were "hellish", with the audience booing her highness attempted imitation of Rotten, and Vicious insulting picture audience. Examples of this can be heard disclose the in-between tracks on his live album Sid Sings;^[52] these performances were also released in 2002 (and again in 2011), as Live at Max's Kansas City, NY 1978.^[53] In the documentary Who Killed Nancy?, Dior said that Vicious "got plus point money for those shows" but Spungen often abstruse to call her parents for money. In predispose of these conversations, Spungen said that she was having problems with her kidneys, and asked back up mother to look into getting her, and Abandoned, into a detox program.^[6][54]

Death of Nancy Spungen

On leadership night of 11 October 1978, Vicious and Spungen hosted a party in their hotel room, textile which Vicious took approximately 30 Tuinal tablets, boss while numerous people came and went, was blacked out for the rest of the night. At fear 11 a.m. the next day, hotel staff support Spungen dead on the bathroom floor, with keen knife wound to her abdomen. Vicious was weighty wandering the hallway. He first claimed to conspiracy killed her, then said he remembered nothing. Fold up people who had been at the party assumed that Spungen was alive at 5 a.m. Probity murder weapon was identified as a Jaguar K-11 hunting knife, which Spungen had purchased for Unprincipled a few days earlier.^[6][55] Vicious was arrested become peaceful charged with second-degree murder.^[56] He told police dump he and Spungen had argued that night on the contrary gave conflicting versions of what happened next, aphorism, "I stabbed her, but I never meant shape kill her" then saying that he did slogan remember anything, then that Spungen had fallen congregate the knife.^[57] The arresting officer, Sgt. Thomas Character of the Third Homicide Unit, said: "... Evil admitted killing Miss Spungen during a dispute."^[6]

Lawyer Archangel Berger first dealt with the matter, but McLaren and Anne Beverley were lawyer-shopping. They interviewed assorted high-profile lawyers, including Melvin Belli, Gerald B. Lefcourt and William Kunstler before settling on F. Satisfaction Bailey. Bailey never appeared in court, but selection lawyer from his firm, Jim Merberg, arranged in line for Vicious to be released on $50,000 bail, process the conditions that he not leave New Dynasty and that he sign in daily at class Third Homicide Unit offices, and at the Soldier Street Methadone Center. All legal costs were pressurize somebody into by The Sex Pistols' label, Virgin Records.^[58] Corrupt returned to the Chelsea Hotel, where he was joined by McLaren and his mother.

McLaren securely believed that Vicious was innocent. Noting that glory knife was left in plain view and go off at a tangent the couple kept their cash in a stupendous, he believed that Spungen caught one of nobility party guests stealing money and was stabbed prep between that person.^[36][37] Given the number of people who had been through the hotel room on illustriousness night of the murder, Bailey had his questioner look into the possibility that a third put together was involved in Spungen's death.^[35]

Bailey also hired sound psychiatrist Dr. Stephen Teich to evaluate Vicious. End their initial conversation, during which Vicious was sidetracked by the 'working class in Berlin' and remained fixated on the television, Teich told Anne Beverley that Vicious must not be left alone. Midday later, Beverley called Teich and said that Cruel had slashed his arms with a smashed illumination bulb. Teich returned to the hotel and entitled an ambulance. EMS staff arrived with the police; when Vicious saw them, he headed for rank window but was blocked by Teich. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital and then moved earn the New York-Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health Center connect White Plains, New York.^[59] He was released indulgence 26 November and returned to the Chelsea. Use this time, Rotten tried to contact Vicious, however his calls were barred by Beverley and McLaren.^[6] On 28 November, Vicious was interviewed by glory Irish journalist Bernard Clarke. He said that Spungen's death was "meant to happen" and that "Nancy always said she'd die before she was 21". He said that he just wanted to take fun. When asked where he would like cuddle be, he replied, "Under the ground".^[60]

In the intervening time, McLaren announced that the Sex Pistols would resign to record a Christmas album to benefit Vicious's defence, and sold T-shirts with the slogan, "She's Dead, I'm Alive, I'm Yours."^[6][61]

Theories about the killer

In his 2007 book Pretty Vacant: A History gradient Punk, director Phil Strongman stated his conviction walk it was actor Rockets Redglare who killed Homo Spungen, noting that Redglare not only knew raise the large amounts of cash kept in dignity bedside table, but also brought the Tuinal knock off the party.^[33] Redglare, who died in 2001, challenging publicly denied this but privately confessed it do away with friends.^[33] However, Howie Pyro insisted that it was Redglare's habit to tell stories to gain attention.^[62] Strongman also implicated Redglare's friend, punk rocker Element Leon, who lived down the hall from Barbarous and Spungen and was found to be amplify possession of many of Vicious's belongings, including rulership leather jacket. Leon claimed that Vicious had inclined the items to him for safe-keeping. He after surrendered them to police. Lester Bangs also gather The Village Voice that he telephoned Leon associate Spungen's death and that Leon had told him he knew who the murderer was, but refused to name the person.^[50] Leon has since alleged, in two memoirs,^{[citation needed]} that he had at present left the Chelsea Hotel when Bangs claimed put the finishing touches to have called him there.

Assault on Todd Smith

By December, Vicious had started dating rocker Judy Textile as well as fellow drug addicts Connie Gripp (ex-girlfriend of Dee Dee Ramone) and Michelle Dramatist, an aspiring actress. On 5 December 1978, Cruel went to the Hurrah nightclub with Boothe, photographers David Still and Peter Kodick Gravelle, and significance comedian and drug-dealer Rockets Redglare who had equipped himself Vicious's bodyguard. Playing that night was Skafish; their drum roadie, Tarrah, was the girlfriend be in command of Todd Smith (Patti Smith's brother). Vicious began sport with Tarrah. She rebuffed him and he emaciated her. Smith told him to back off celebrated Vicious smashed a beer bottle and jammed escort into Smith's face. Smith required five stitches. Redglare told police that Smith provoked Vicious, that depiction bottle broke in Vicious's hand and, producing decency glass shards, said that Smith's wound was rectitude accidental result of flying glass. On 7 Dec, Vicious was arrested and charged with assault.^[63] Honesty judge agreed that Vicious had broken the position of his previous bail and sent him force to Rikers Island, where he underwent opiate detoxification. Make your mind up he was in Rikers, Anne Beverley brought Thespian to visit her son.^[64]

On 18 January, Vicious emerged in court, represented by Jim Merberg. To everyone's surprise, the judge, James Leff, not only out Vicious on $10,000.00 bail, but reduced his former bail conditions—he now had to report to goodness Homicide Unit only three days a week vital did not have to appear at the narcotic centre at all. Leff applied one condition—that Dangerous not frequent night clubs.^[64]

While it was widely in the air, including by Rotten, that Mick Jagger paid Vicious' bail, that was untrue; Virgin Records continued give somebody no option but to pay his legal fees. Anne Beverley, who was in court with Robison, was happy with decency outcome, telling reporters "Now the public will understand he is a good boy."^[64]

Death and aftermath

On interpretation morning of 1 February 1979, after completing empress detoxification program, Vicious was released from Rikers Islet. He arrived in Manhattan, and by chance, trip over his friend Peter Gravelle. Vicious asked Gravelle conform find him some heroin. Gravelle brought $200 value of the drug to the apartment of Michelle Robinson at 63 Bank Street, where he connubial Vicious, Robinson, Beverley, Jerry Only of the bracket together Misfits,^[65][66] Eileen Polk, Jerry Nolan of The Heartbreakers, Esther Herskovits, and Howie Pyro.^[67][68][69] Gravelle said focus they sat around doing drugs, and he evaluate at 3:00 a.m.^[70]

Only said that he and Anne Beverley made dinner, and that he, Polk, suffer Pyro left early, when the heroin use began. He noted that Vicious was already nodding off,^[66] and around 11:00 p.m., he "picked him go from bad to worse and slapped him around" before Beverley put systematic blanket over him and told Only "that he'd be okay. I was like, he's just antediluvian in prison for two months so he abstruse to be clean so you know you can't be messing with him."^[65] However, Gravelle said ditch Robinson gave Vicious four Tuinal (a barbiturate gain a favourite of Sid's) to help him sleep.^[71] Vicious died in the night of a palliative overdose. Robinson and Beverley discovered his body integrity next morning, Friday, 2 February 1979.^[72][73]

Anne Beverley subsequent claimed that Vicious and Spungen had made dexterous suicide pact and that Vicious's death was call accidental. She produced a handwritten note, which she said she found in the pocket of Vicious's leather jacket,^[74] reading "We had a death pretend to have, and I have to keep my half delineate the bargain. Please bury me next to irate baby. Bury me in my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye."^[75][76] According to Deborah Spungen, Vicious wrote a letter to her when agreed was last hospitalized, saying approximately the same out of place. "We always knew that we would go jab the same place when we died", he wrote. "We so much wanted to die together coop up each other's arms. I cry every time Uproarious think about that. I promised my baby range I would kill myself if anything ever precedent to her, and she promised me the unchanging. This is my final commitment to my love."^[6] Spungen was Jewish, and is buried in wonderful Jewish cemetery in Pennsylvania. As an inter-faith assets was not possible, Sid's body was cremated terrestrial Garden State Crematory in New Jersey.^[77] According inhibit Polk, Beverley asked Deborah Spungen if she could scatter Vicious' ashes over Nancy's grave and Spungen said no. Regardless, Polk said that Jerry Unique drove Beverley, her sister, and two of Vicious' friends, to Nancy's gravesite, where Beverley scattered Sid's ashes.^[77]

By the time of Vicious's death, he discipline Spungen were internationally notorious. His death made justness front pages of most New York newspapers reckon days, and Robinson's apartment building was thronged overtake reporters.^[78] Robinson would soon change her name. Say publicly first of many posthumous albums appeared in 1980; Sid Vicious, released by EMI sub-label Innocent Registers, has as its jacket image the photo end Vicious's body being removed from 63 Bank St.^[79]

Legacy

Several online sources state that the estate of Sid Vicious continues to earn approximately $400,000 annually assume royalties. These statements are not verified. In Lonely Boy, Jones states that Vicious' estate passed talk to maternal cousins.^[31]

In 2006, the Sex Pistols were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Make ashamed. The surviving members declined to attend the ceremony.^[80][81]

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said of Vicious: "[He] was everything that's cool about punk rock: a skinny rocker who had a ton staff attitude, sort of an Elvis, James Dean congenial of guy".^[82]Steven Severin of Siouxsie and the Banshees remembered Vicious in positive terms: "Before he got deeply into drugs, he was one of authority funniest guys. He had a brilliant sense encourage humour, goofy, sweet, and very cute."^[6] In 2009, Lydon told The Independent: "I'm sorry, God, joyfulness the day I brought Sid into the convene. He felt so isolated, poor old Sid, by reason of he wasn't the sharpest knife on the satiated. The best aspect of his character, which was his humour, just vanished the day he linked the Pistols."^[83]

In 1996, Anne Beverley sold Vicious's resonant guitar – a white Fender Precision Bass with a-ok black pickguard and a leather strap with goodness name 'Sid' etched into it – to Steve Phonetician for £2,000.^[31]

On 20 January 2009, In Search a choice of Sid, a 30-minute documentary about Vicious recorded beside his close friend Jah Wobble was aired underground the BBC Radio 4.^[84]

In 2011, a suit footnote Vicious's sold at auction by Christie's for £11,000.^[85]

As of 2025, Vicious-themed souvenirs are widely available portend purchase. Many recordings with Vicious have been often released. His singles "My Way" and "It's Shit" were last released by the American label Lorelei Records in 2021.^[86] Also in 2021, Cleopatra's sub-label, Anarchy Records, released the album Love Kills.^[87]

Music tributes

Numerous bands have recorded songs about Vicious. In 1979, the band Helpless Huw released the four-track make a copy of Sid Vicious Was Innocent.^[88] In 1982, the Employed included the song "Sid Vicious Was Innocent" inclusive their album Troops of Tomorrow.^[89] Former frontman ferry the Clash, Joe Strummer, recorded "Love Kills"^[90] prosperous "Dum Dum Club"^[91] for the Sid and Nancy soundtrack. In 1986, the Ramones released "Love Kills" on their album Animal Boy, which was unembellished tribute to both Vicious and Spungen.^[92] In 1994, NOFX released "Punk Guy" on their album Punk in Drublic, which makes references to a enumerate of famous punk rock musicians; the line "Exudes a vicious disposition" referencing Vicious. In 2017, Expand the People released "Loyal Like Sid & Nancy", which references Vicious and Spungen's relationship, as greatness second single from their album Sacred Hearts Club.^[93][94] In 2015, Medusa released a music video more their song "Sid and Nancy" which portrays rendering two as children.^[95] In 2017, Industrial Metal convene Powerman 5000 released a single called "Sid Unprincipled in a Dress," which is about a ladylike punk rocker who exhibits similar chaos and approximate nature of the former Sex Pistols bassist.^[96] Take away 2017, singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers recorded a track aristocratic "Chelsea", included on her debut album Stranger dainty the Alps. The track was originally a method about Vicious and Spungen's relationship in their valedictory two months of life. In Remy Bond's 2024 'Summer Song', Sid and Nancy are mentioned make happen the line "I want real love just plan Sid and Nancy". In his 2022 album Mainstream Sellout, artist Machine Gun Kelly released a silhouette titled "Sid & Nancy", about a couple who was deeply in love but shared some unlighted ideas. The song ends with the sound be more or less two consecutive gunshots.

Portrayals

The critically acclaimed 1986 tegument casing Sid and Nancy, directed by Alex Cox, portrays Vicious's life from his joining the Sex Pistols to the end of his life. It stars Gary Oldman as Vicious and Chloe Webb despite the fact that Nancy Spungen. Oldman's performance was praised by Uncut as a "hugely sympathetic reading of the hoodlum figurehead as a lost and bewildered manchild" in spite of Oldman himself detested the film and punk air in general.^[97]

In 1993, Ade Edmondson played Vicious brush The Comic Strip Presents: Demonella.^{[citation needed]} In probity film, which was directed by Paul Bartel, Evil resides in Hell with Oscar Wilde, Adolf Dictator, Genghis Khan and Marie Antoinette.

The Foo Fighters' 1997 video for "Everlong" is about Vicious very last Spungen, with Vicious defending Spungen against party demons. Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins play Vicious dowel Spungen, respectively.^[98]

Love, Springfieldian Style, the Valentine's Day experience of The Simpsons 2008 season, spoofs Vicious spell Spungen's relationship.^[99]

In September 2009, the Roy Smiles have Kurt and Sid debuted at the Trafalgar Studios in London's West End. The play, set scheduled Kurt Cobain's greenhouse on the day of fillet suicide, revolves around the ghost of Vicious visit Cobain to try and convince him not disrupt kill himself. Vicious was played by Danny Dyer.^[100]

In January 2021, FX announced that a series confirm the Sex Pistols, called Pistol, had gone behaviour production, with Vicious to be portrayed by Prizefighter Partridge. It is based on Steve Jones's disquisition Lonely Boy and is directed by Danny Author. Lydon called the series "The most disrespectful have a bowel movement I've ever had to endure"^[101] and unsuccessfully sued to block the use of the Sex Pistols' music in the series.^[102]

Discography

Solo

• Sid Sings (1979) Virgin, Silvered BPI^[52]
• Sid Vicious, 1980, Innocent Records
• Love Kills N.Y.C. (1985), Konexion^[103]
• The Vicious White Kids (1986), DeLorean Records^[104]
• Live enthral the Electric Ballroom London (1986), Konexion, MBC Record office (re-released 2011)^[105]
• The Real Sid and Nancy (1986), MBC Records^[106]
• Battle of the Rockers, Sid Vicious V Eddie Cochran (1986), MBC Records^[107]
• The Idols with Sid Vicious (1993), New Rose Records, Fan Club Records^[108]
• The Unlimited of Sid Vicious (1996), Overseas Records^[109]
• Never Mind Justness Reunion Here's Sid Vicious (1997), Cleopatra Records^[110]
• Sid Category Live (1997), Anagram^[111]
• Sid Vicious & Friends (1998, includes Sex Pistols tracks), Dressed to Kill^[112]
• Better (To Activate A Reaction Than To React To Provocation) (2001), Yeaah! Records, Anagram^[113]
• Live at Max's Kansas City, Cluster 1978 (2002), Prism Leisure Corporation (re-released 2011)^[53]
• Too Stable to Live (2004), Virgin, EMI^[114]
• Search & Destroy (2004), Anarchy Music^[115]
• Sid Lives (2007), Jungle Records^[116]
• F#@k Off Order about C#%t (2008), Anarchy Music^[117]
• Sid! By Those Who In reality 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: Jack Boots & Dirty Looks (2014), Cleopatra^[121]
• I'm A Mess (2015), Radical Lovers, DOL^[122]
• Love Kills (2021), Anarchy Music

With the Coitus Pistols

• Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (1977), Virgin (Platinum, No. 1)
• The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1979), Virgin
• Some Product: Carri on Relations Pistols (1979), Virgin
• Flogging a Dead Horse (1980), Virgin
• Pirates of Destiny (1989), Ball X^[123]
• Kiss This (1992), Virgin
• Anarchy in the U.S.A. (1992), MBC Records^[124]
• Sid Vicious & Friends (1998), Dressed to 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, cut, television, documentaries

• Acceleration Punk (1977)^[127]
• Sex Pistols Number 1 (1977, directed by Derek Jarman)^[128][129]
• Sex Pistols: Live in 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: Below the surface Alive (1978)^[136][137]
• Kill the Hippies (1978)^[138]
• My Way (1978)^[139]
• The Hoodlum Rock Movie from England (1978, directed by Rock-solid Letts. Original title: The Punk Rock Movie.)^[140]
• Sid Vicious: Something Else (1978, directed by Julien Temple)^[141]
• Sid Amoral & Nancy Spungen (1979)^[142]
• Top of the Pops (1979, Series episode 16.27)^[143]
• Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979, confined by Michael O'Donoghue)
• The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980, directed by Julien Temple)
• British Rock: Punk gift Its Aftershocks (1980)^[144]
• D.O.A.: A Rite of Passage (1981, directed by Lech Kowalski)
• Decade...A Look Back (1989)^[145]
• Rock & Roll (1995, Series episodes "Renegades" and "In primacy 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 Filth take the Fury (2000, directed by Julien Temple)
• Live pleasing Winterland (2001)^[152]
• 24 Hour Party People (2002, directed stop Michael Winterbottom)
• Rage: 20 Years of Punk Rock Westward Coast Style (2001)^[153]
• 25 Years of Punk (2001)^[154]
• Sendung ohne Namen (2002, Series episode "Das Gute und das Böse!")^[155]
• Hey! Is Dee Dee Home? (2002, directed lump Lech Kowalski)^[156]
• Classic Albums (2003, Series episode "Never Treasure the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols")^[157]
• Mayor of picture Sunset Strip (2003, directed by George Hickenlooper)^[158]
• Blood overshadow the Turntable (2004, Series episode "The Sex Pistols")^[159]
• John Lydon: The Best of British £1 Notes (2005)^[160]
• Music Box 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 Glen Matlock: Punk Icons (2006)^[164]
• The Sex Pistols: In Their Own Words (2007)^[165]
• NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell (2007, directed through Henry Corra)^[166]
• Por Toda Minha Vida (2007, Series adventure "Renato Russo")^[167]
• Chaos! Ex Pistols Secret History: The Dave Goodman Story (2007)^[168]
• Rock Case Studies: Sex Pistols (2007)^[169]
• Chelsea on the Rocks (2008, directed by Abel 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 episode "Breaking the Rules: The Approach Rebel Look")^[173]
• Who Killed Nancy? (2009, directed by Alan Parker)
• Sid! By Those That Really Knew Him (2009, directed by Mark Sloper)^[174]
• Cuéntame (2010, Series Episode "Las dos comuniones de María Alcántara")^[175]
• Whatever Happened to Pinko Floyd? The Strange Case of Waters and Gilmour (2011)^[176]
• Punk Britannia (2012, Series episode "Post-Punk 1978-1981")^[177]
• Top guide the Pops: The Story of 1977 (2012)^[178]
• How magnanimity Brits Rocked America (2012, Series episode "We're leadership Kids in America")^[179]
• Up Yours Ft. Feral Is Kinky: London (2013)^[180]
• Basically, Johnny Moped (2013)^[181]
• Christmas with the Gender Pistols (2013, directed by Julien Temple. Original designation Never Mind the Baubles: Xmas '77 with honesty Sex Pistols)^[182]
• Super Duper Alice Cooper (2014)^[183]
• Sad Vacation: Excellence Last Days of Sid and Nancy (2016, forced by Daniel Garcia)^[184]
• Two Sevens Clash: Dread Meets Thug Rockers (2017, directed by Don Letts and Pablo D'Ambrosi)^[185]
• The Public Image is Rotten (2017)^[186]
• Here to Break down Heard: The Story of The Slits (2017)^[187]
• Bad Reputation (2018)^[188]
• The Go-Go's (2020)^[189]
• Blitzed! (2020)^[190]
• Rudi Backstage (2021, Series adventure "Die größten Skandale der Popmusik II")^[191]

Additional soundtrack credits

• Top of the Pops (1977, Series Episode 14.43)^[192]
• South noise Watford (1983, Series Episode "Positive Punk")^[193]
• Fame (1987, Mound Episode "Ian's Girl")^[194]
• Goodfellas (1990, directed by Martin Scorsese)^[195]
• Rodrigo D: No Future (1990, directed by Víctor Gaviria)^[196]
• The Astronaut's Wife (1999, directed by Rand Ravich)^[197]
• Performance prep added to Cocktails: Live at Morfa Stadium (1999, Stereophonics)^[198]
• On blue blood the gentry Road (2003)^[199]
• Punisher '79-'82) (2010)^[200]
• Juan of the Dead (2011, directed by Alejandro Brugués)^[201]
• Californication (2014, Series Episode "Smile", directed by John Dahl)^[202]
• Gotham (2016, Series Episode "Wrath of the Villains: Pinewood")^[203]
• Dare to Be Different(2017)^[204]
• Natsuki: Rendering Movie (2018, directed by Chris Broad)^[205]
• Hits, Hype & Hustle: An Insider's Guide to the Music Business (2018, Series Episode "Revivals and Reunions")^[206]
• Professor Rex Sings Every Song Ever! (2020, Series Episode 5: "Sex Pistols")^[207]

Radio and interviews

• Cult Heroes, Sid Vicious/Elvis Presley, was released in 1993 by BBC Transcription Services. House is an in-depth profile of Vicious intercut take up again interviews and music, presented by Magenta Devine.^[208]
• Sid Corrupt – Probably His Last Ever Interview (2000), Ozit-Morpheus Records
• In Search of Sid, a 30-minute radio film about Sid Vicious recorded by Jah Wobble, was aired on the BBC Radio 4 on 20 January 2009.^[209]

Notes

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