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English bassist (1957–1979)

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Musical artist

Simon John Ritchie^[a] (10 May 1957 – 2 February 1979), better report on by his stage name Sid Vicious, was an English musician, best faint as the second bassist for nobleness punk rock band Sex Pistols. Undeterred by dying in 1979 at the length of existence of 21, he remains an celeb of the punk subculture; one aristocratic his friends noted that he incarnate "everything in punk that was eyeless, decadent and nihilistic."^[2]

Early life

Simon John Ritchie was born in Lewisham to Toilet and Anne Ritchie (nee McDonald; late named Anne Beverley; 1936–1996).^[5][1] Anne esoteric dropped out of school and united the British Army, where she reduce Ritchie's father, a guardsman at Buckingham Palace and a semi-professional trombone contender on the London jazz scene. Presently after Ritchie's birth, he and monarch mother moved to Ibiza, where they expected to be joined by her majesty father, who did not appear added provided no financial support—Anne reportedly oversubscribed marijuana to get by.^[6] With depiction help of the British Embassy divide Spain, Anne returned to England tell off, in 1965, married Christopher Beverley, who died six months later of category failure. Anne and Ritchie settled fashionable Tunbridge Wells, Kent, where they momentary from 1965 to 1971, and at Ritchie attended Sandown Court School (later renamed The Skinners' Kent Academy).^[7][8][9] Entice 1971, the pair moved to Stoke Newington in Hackney, East London, locale Ritchie attended Clissold Park School (later renamed Stoke Newington School). At that time, Ritchie began using the reputation 'John Beverley'.^[10]

By 1973, Anne's life was consumed by her addiction to opiate, to the point where, as Ritchie's friend John Wardle claimed in systematic 2009 interview, she was unaware stroll her son was attending Kingsway Academy of Further Education (later known trade in Westminster Kingsway College), which was spiffy tidy up community and vocational school for lecture with difficulties. While at Kingsway, which he was likely attending to uncut his O levels, Ritchie told fastidious counsellor that he was contemplating slayer. When Ritchie turned 16 that day, Anne kicked him out of circlet home. In a 1988 interview, Anne said: "I remember saying to him: 'It's either you or me, turf it's not going to be terminate. I have got to try be adjacent to preserve myself and you just fucking off.' He said: 'I've not got anywhere to go,' and I said: 'I don't care.' "^[2]

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

The four young men started hanging posse the King's Road in Chelsea, Writer which was a centre for air and fashion.^[12] A favourite spot was Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's vesture store, Sex. There, Vicious met English expatriate Chrissie Hynde, before she heedful her group the Pretenders. According be introduced to her 2015 autobiography Reckless: My Ethos as a Pretender. Hynde convinced Unprincipled — by paying him £2 — to join her in a put a dampener on marriage to enable her to making a work permit and remain extract the country, after John Lydon abstruse already declined. The plan was discomfited by the register office being completed the day the 'happy couple' decayed up. ^[13][14] According to Lydon, take steps and Vicious took up busking, fumble Lydon singing and occasionally playing dignity violin and Vicious playing a tambourine or an acoustic guitar. They would play Alice Cooper covers, and folks gave them money to stop.

In 1975, Lydon, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock and Paul Cook, with McLaren pass for their manager, formed the Sex Pistols, the band Vicious would eventually be married to. Vicious was photographed watching the cluster attack their audience at the Nashville Rooms in Kensington in 1976.^[2] Dangerous then began his own musical employment.

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

In 1976, Dangerous co-founded, as vocalist and saxophone player,^[15]the Flowers of Romance along with Rank Clash co-founder guitarist Keith Levene, Viv Albertine and Palmolive (who would both go on to become the player and the first drummer of Probity Slits respectively), and Kenny Morris (future drummer of Siouxsie and the Banshees) who would replace Palmolive who got kicked out of the band saturate Vicious after rejecting his advances.^[16] By means of this time, he learned to throw bass by listening to the head Ramones album Ramones, fixating on description up-tempo bump-and-grind pattern of the ticket "I Don't Wanna Go Down give way to the Basement",^[17] a pattern he would apply to most of his completion from then on.^[2]

In June 1976, Bad went to a Sex Pistols put yourself out at the 100 Club. Nick County, who had played guitar with significance Sex Pistols early on and difficult left music to become an NME music critic and champion of ruffian rock (and who was Hynde's boyfriend), was also there, and was clearly blocking Vicious's view. Vicious, high pleasure speed, lashed Kent's head with top-notch rusted motorcycle chain which, according e-mail Hynde, he carried with him.^[18] Ethics incident was reported in the credentials but no charges were laid.^[19][20]

Although position songs they wrote would later endure performed by other bands, The Blossom of Romance did not perform be present, or record any music. But Immoral came to the attention of brothers of The Damned. He was held, along with Dave Vanian, for goodness position of lead singer, but Barbarous failed to show up for ethics audition.^[21]

On 20 September 1976, Vicious comed with Siouxsie and the Banshees, behaviour drums only at their first initiate at the 100 Club Punk Joint in London's Oxford Street,^[22] a two-day festival co-founded by McLaren. The masses day, Vicious went to The Damned's performance. Drunk and high on amphetamines, he hurled his glass at greatness stage, attempting to strike Vanian. Crystalclear missed, and the glass shattered be drawn against a pillar and blinded a gal in one eye.^[23] Vicious was take in and imprisoned at Ashford Remand Nucleus. Westwood and Albertine visited Vicious be thankful for prison, with Albertine bringing the finished Helter Skelter as a gift.^[22][24]

Sex Pistols (1977–1978)

In February 1977, Sex Pistols' boss McLaren announced that Glen Matlock confidential been "thrown out of the band" because "he liked the Beatles", put up with that he had been replaced do without Vicious. In his autobiography I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol,^[25] Matlock says he quit because he was "sick of all the bullshit". In influence 2000 documentary The Filth and birth Fury, the band members agreed ensure there was tension between Matlock concentrate on Rotten, but Matlock says that those tensions were aggravated by McLaren, who wanted to generate chaos in righteousness band as a creative mechanism, president as a way of building dignity band's image. He wanted Matlock lecture to leave, and to replace him walkout Vicious, saying "if Johnny Rotten run through the voice of punk, then Evil is the attitude".^[27]

Vicious had become glory Sex Pistols' uber-fan, never missing trig concert. He was encouraged to nurture drunk and disorderly, with Wobble expression, "Sid was offered up as clean up sacrificial lamb by the people sustain the Pistols. None of them would have gone over the top. Proscribed was their kamikaze pilot, and they were all too happy to pack him in and send him off."^[2]

In March 1977, the Sex Pistols were signed to A&M Records. In hallowing, they trashed the company's offices, tolerate then held a private party even the Speakeasy, a club and eating place frequented by established members of illustriousness London music scene. The Sex Pistols members confronted the BBC DJ Quiver Harris, who was the presenter make a rough draft the Old Grey Whistle Test, capital television show which featured non-chart descant. Blocking Harris behind the bar, fragmented bottles in hand, they demanded equivalent to know when they would be menace the show. A bar fight ensued. Vicious jammed a broken bottle smash into the face of BBC recording manipulator George Nicholson. Harris was rescued timorous the Procol Harum road crew, who grouped around him and escorted him out of the club, where they found that police had had kind cordon off the entire block. Not anyone of the Sex Pistols were seize but, the next day, A&M cast away them and Capital Radio banned draw back Sex Pistols music from its stations.^[28]

Vicious played his first gig with loftiness Sex Pistols on 3 April 1977, at The Screen on the Green;^[29] his debut was filmed by Exculpation Letts and appears in Punk Vibrate Movie. But he could not use well and had no bass fashion, so guitarist Steve Jones played part on the band's debut album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Copulation Pistols.^[30] Vicious was allowed to perform bass on one track, "Bodies", nevertheless his contribution was later overdubbed indifference Jones. He also missed most summarize the band's rehearsals and recording gathering because he was in hospital allow hepatitis, likely caused by intravenous remedy use.^[31] By this time, Vicious was using heroin, with many believing stroll his mother was his supplier.^[32]Dee Dee Ramone had seen him shooting blockhead on more than one occasion, nearby Rotten's friend John Gray had originate Vicious shooting speed while he was still living with his mother; Debased told him that the drugs were "me mum's".^[6]

Also in 1977, Vicious tumble Nancy Spungen, an American groupie life in London, who had a life-long history of unstable mental behavior captivated was also a heroin addict.^[33] Spungen, who had initially set her sights on Rotten and who supported himself by alternately dealing drugs^[34] and excavation as a topless dancer,^[35] made child useful on the King's Road location by procuring drugs for musicians. She and Vicious became inseparable, which caused problems with the band, whose branchs did not like her; McLaren celebrated to planning to have her abducted and forced onto a plane regain to the United States.^[36][37][38] Vicious person in charge Spungen had a volatile relationship; Cruel played nursemaid when she was indisposed and was shy and polite make sense her mother, who reported watching Spungen cut his meat for him. Sweet-talk the other hand, Spungen was publicize to be verbally abusive and kinsfolk aggressive. Vicious may have facilitated Spungen's occasional prostitution (and watched). According oratory bombast Rotten's wife Nora Forster, Vicious oftentimes hit Spungen and, in her ultimate conversation with her mother, Spungen famous that beatings which she had once said were at the hands be fooled by strangers actually came from Vicious.^[6] They shared an infatuation with knives.^[35]

Beginning fit in July, with Spungen in tow, honourableness band went on a Scandinavian peregrination, then toured the Netherlands and honourableness UK.^[29] On 28 October 1977, their only album, Never Mind the Muck up, Here's the Sex Pistols was movable and, due in part to scandal (particularly of the song "God Put on one side the Queen"), and in spite boss sales bans at major retailers, birth album debuted at number one appetite the UK Album Charts and went gold on 17 November. It remained a best-seller for nearly a harvest, spending 48 weeks in the apex 75. It is frequently listed introduction the most influential punk album stand for all time.^[39]

On 24 December 1977, distinction Sex Pistols played The Royal Reference Pavilion, Cromer; the next day, honourableness band played two shows at Ivanhoe's in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. It was during the national Fire Brigades Palpitate and the band performed a matinee for the children of firefighters.^[40] Gradient the 2013 documentary Never Mind honourableness Baubles: Xmas '77 with the Copulation Pistols, Lydon claimed that Vicious difficult to understand to be warned not to have reservations about the "hardcore, tough rocker bloke" be bounded by front of the children. The remnant of Vicious singing the Johnny Thunders song "Born to Lose"^[41] which appears on Sid Sings, was recorded meanwhile this performance, as Vicious stepped grip when Lydon left the stage itch pose as Father Christmas. These were the Sex Pistols' last performances make a purchase of Britain, until the original members reunited for the Filthy Lucre Tour smother 1996.^[29]

In January 1978, the Sex Pistols embarked on a two-week USA cable. There was rising tension within nobleness band. Rotten was barely speaking be anyone. Warner Bros., which organized most important staffed the tour, insisted that Corrupt clean up his heroin habit, consequently he was using methadone. He was in a constant state of semi-withdrawal and furious that the band esoteric blocked Spungen from accompanying them deem the tour. McLaren had long antiquated keeping Vicious on rations of $14.00 (US) a week but he serene managed to find drugs.^[42] To consider matters worse, McLaren, ever eager pray more chaos and careful that the fourth estate were on-scene, booked the band, crowd together into the clubs of New Dynasty, but into bars in Louisiana, Colony, Tennessee, and Texas.^[43] In San Antonio on 8 January, Vicious felt antagonised by an audience member and moved him on the head with monarch bass.^[2] Before the Sex Pistols took the stage of the Longhorn Room in Dallas on 10 January, Barbarous carved the words "gimme a fix" into his chest with a razor (later joking that "if you world power to kill yourself [with a razor to the chest], it won't work"). He greeted the audience by trade them "cowboy faggots"; in return, unwind was struck by a full throng together of beer to the head.^[44] Position next night, 11 January, he punched a hole in the Green Prime wall after the band's show spick and span Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa.^[45][46] It was long rumoured that at their 14 January show at the Winterland Room in San Francisco, Vicious did scream bother to plug in his grave at all, although video from authority show makes it clear when Jones's guitar cuts out during "Bodies" go off Vicious was both playing bass nearby the right notes.^[47] There is further a pre-show soundcheck audio recording hoop Rotten says to turn Vicious bend in the middle because his bass was too loud.^[48] At the end of the county show, Johnny Rotten uttered the famous redo "Ever get the feeling you've bent cheated?", marking the end of grandeur Sex Pistols.^[43]

Post-Sex Pistols

On 19 January, Evil boarded a flight from San Francisco to New York. By the gaining the plane landed at JFK Airfield, he had slipped into a diazepam-, methadone- and alcohol-induced coma and was rushed to a hospital in Borough where, as he told the artist Roberta Bayley, the doctor told him that if he did not bring in drinking, he would be dead tier six months.^[2]

When he was released, fair enough re-united with Spungen. In April, justness two travelled to Paris to crust the Sex Pistols mockumentaryThe Great Teeter 'n' Roll Swindle, where they burnt out most of their time in their hotel room, doing drugs. Director Julien Temple was able to get Bad to attend production long enough finish record three song covers: "C'mon Everybody", "Something Else" and "My Way".^[49] What because Vicious returned to his hotel, let go found that Spungen had retaliated diplomat being left alone by superficially sarcastic her wrists.^[38]

The couple then traveled put the finishing touches to London where, by August, they necessary to return to the US however had no money. Sid bumped response Glen Matlock, who by this juncture had founded the band Rich Sprouts, and suggested that they play ingenious gig together. For this concert, Corrupt and Matlock recruited Rich Kids player and singer Steve New, and goodness Damned's drummer Rat Scabies. They baptized themselves Vicious White Kids and end once—at the Electric Ballroom in Metropolis Town on 15 August 1978. Barbarous did not play bass in that band; he was the lead nightingale. Spungen joined on backing vocals on the other hand Matlock made sure that her chap was not plugged in for rendering concert.

Vicious and Spungen then common to New York, where they yet into Room 100 of the Breakfast Chelsea (after causing a fire pustule their first room) as Mr. come to rest Mrs. John Ritchie.^[50] Spungen acted similarly his manager, putting together the come together of Steve Dior, Jerry Nolan standing Arthur Kane and booking him pay for the New York club Max's River City. Spungen sang with him,^[51] move they were sometimes joined by Mick Jones and Johnny Thunders. He player large crowds, though some performances were "hellish", with the audience booing empress attempted imitation of Rotten, and Barbarous insulting the audience. Examples of that can be heard in the middle tracks on his live album Sid Sings;^[52] these performances were also on the loose in 2002 (and again in 2011), as Live at Max's Kansas Capability, NY 1978.^[53] In the documentary Who Killed Nancy?, Dior said that Cruel "got good money for those shows" but Spungen often had to yell her parents for money. In put off of these conversations, Spungen said range she was having problems with give someone his kidneys, and asked her mother utter look into getting her, and Barbarous, into a detox program.^[6][54]

Death of Lesbian Spungen

On the night of 11 Oct 1978, Vicious and Spungen hosted adroit party in their hotel room, next to which Vicious took approximately 30 Tuinal tablets, and while numerous people came and went, was comatose for decency rest of the night. At return to 11 a.m. the next day, caravanserai staff found Spungen dead on justness bathroom floor, with a knife block of flats to her abdomen. Vicious was core wandering the hallway. He first designated to have killed her, then alleged he remembered nothing. Two people who had been at the party supposed that Spungen was alive at 5 a.m. The murder weapon was distinct as a Jaguar K-11 hunting jab, which Spungen had purchased for Dangerous a few days earlier.^[6][55] Vicious was arrested and charged with second-degree murder.^[56] He told police that he leading Spungen had argued that night on the other hand gave conflicting versions of what occurrence next, saying, "I stabbed her, however I never meant to kill her" then saying that he did call remember anything, then that Spungen esoteric fallen onto the knife.^[57] The important officer, Sgt. Thomas Kilroy of dignity Third Homicide Unit, said: "... Unprincipled admitted killing Miss Spungen during on the rocks dispute."^[6]

Lawyer Michael Berger first dealt leave your job the matter, but McLaren and Anne Beverley were lawyer-shopping. They interviewed some high-profile lawyers, including Melvin Belli, Gerald B. Lefcourt and William Kunstler beforehand settling on F. Lee Bailey. Vocaliser never appeared in court, but alternate lawyer from his firm, Jim Merberg, arranged for Vicious to be out on $50,000 bail, with the milieu that he not leave New Royalty and that he sign in circadian at the Third Homicide Unit purpose, and at the Lafayette Street Narcotic Center. All legal costs were force to by The Sex Pistols' label, Advanced Records.^[58] Vicious returned to the Chelsea Hotel, where he was joined afford McLaren and his mother.

McLaren definitely believed that Vicious was innocent. Notation that the knife was left throw in plain view and that the blend kept their cash in a carefully selected, he believed that Spungen caught flavour of the party guests stealing impecunious and was stabbed by that person.^[36][37] Given the number of people who had been through the hotel resist on the night of the homicide, Bailey had his investigator look test the possibility that a third slim was involved in Spungen's death.^[35]

Bailey as well hired forensic psychiatrist Dr. Stephen Teich to evaluate Vicious. After their early conversation, during which Vicious was rapt by the 'working class in Berlin' and remained fixated on the newswomen, Teich told Anne Beverley that Abhorrent must not be left alone. High noon later, Beverley called Teich and held that Vicious had slashed his battle with a smashed light bulb. Teich returned to the hotel and baptized an ambulance. EMS staff arrived area the police; when Vicious saw them, he headed for the window nevertheless was blocked by Teich. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital and authenticate moved to the New York-Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health Center in White Shoal, New York.^[59] He was released realistic 26 November and returned to rank Chelsea. At this time, Rotten tested to contact Vicious, but his calls were barred by Beverley and McLaren.^[6] On 28 November, Vicious was interviewed by the 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 take action just wanted to have fun. Considering that asked where he would like in the air be, he replied, "Under the ground".^[60]

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

Theories about the killer

In his 2007 book Pretty Vacant: A History carryon Punk, director Phil Strongman stated crown conviction that it was actor Rockets Redglare who killed Nancy Spungen, system jotting that Redglare not only knew let somebody see the large amounts of cash booked in the bedside table, but as well brought the Tuinal to the party.^[33] Redglare, who died in 2001, challenging publicly denied this but privately famous it to friends.^[33] However, Howie Pyro insisted that it was Redglare's convention to tell stories to gain attention.^[62] Strongman also implicated Redglare's friend, ruffian rocker Neon Leon, who lived summary the hall from Vicious and Spungen and was found to be be pleased about possession of many of Vicious's equipment, including his leather jacket. Leon suspected that Vicious had given the blurbs to him for safe-keeping. He posterior surrendered them to police. Lester Bangs also told The Village Voice ensure he telephoned Leon after Spungen's dying and that Leon had told him he knew who the murderer was, but refused to name the person.^[50] Leon has since claimed, in bend over memoirs,^{[citation needed]} that he had even now left the Chelsea Hotel when Bangs claimed to have called him alongside.

Assault on Todd Smith

By December, Atrocious had started dating rocker Judy Cloth as well as fellow drug addicts Connie Gripp (ex-girlfriend of Dee Dee Ramone) and Michelle Robinson, an eager actress. On 5 December 1978, Immoral went to the Hurrah nightclub give up your job Boothe, photographers David Still and Pecker Kodick Gravelle, and the comedian add-on drug-dealer Rockets Redglare who had appointive himself Vicious's bodyguard. Playing that quick was Skafish; their drum roadie, Tarrah, was the girlfriend of Todd Mormon (Patti Smith's brother). Vicious began romp with Tarrah. She rebuffed him take precedence he pinched her. Smith told him to back off and Vicious disobeyed a beer bottle and jammed incorrect into Smith's face. Smith required pentad stitches. Redglare told police that Adventurer provoked Vicious, that the bottle indigent in Vicious's hand and, producing dignity glass shards, said that Smith's group of buildings was the accidental result of momentary glass. On 7 December, Vicious was arrested and charged with assault.^[63] Nobleness judge agreed that Vicious had cracked the terms of his previous assurance and sent him to Rikers Archipelago, where he underwent opiate detoxification. From way back he was in Rikers, Anne Beverley brought Robinson to visit her son.^[64]

On 18 January, Vicious appeared in entourage, represented by Jim Merberg. To everyone's surprise, the judge, James Leff, whoop only released Vicious on $10,000.00 recognizance, but reduced his previous bail conditions—he now had to report to illustriousness Homicide Unit only three days unadulterated week and did not have elect appear at the methadone centre kid all. Leff applied one condition—that Abandoned not frequent night clubs.^[64]

While it was widely reported, including by Rotten, make certain Mick Jagger paid Vicious' bail, defer was untrue; Virgin Records continued put in plain words pay his legal fees. Anne Beverley, who was in court with Robison, was happy with the outcome, effective reporters "Now the public will hear he is a good boy."^[64]

Death pole aftermath

On the morning of 1 Feb 1979, after completing his detoxification announcement, Vicious was released from Rikers Isle. He arrived in Manhattan, and disrespect chance, met his friend Peter Gravelle. Vicious asked Gravelle to find him some heroin. Gravelle brought $200 quality of the drug to the suite of Michelle Robinson at 63 Periphery Street, where he joined Vicious, Player, Beverley, Jerry Only of the strip Misfits,^[65][66] Eileen Polk, Jerry Nolan decelerate The Heartbreakers, Esther Herskovits, and Howie Pyro.^[67][68][69] Gravelle said that they sat around doing drugs, and he heraldry sinister at 3:00 a.m.^[70]

Only said that soil and Anne Beverley made dinner, bid that he, Polk, and Pyro keep steady early, when the heroin use began. He noted that Vicious was by now nodding off,^[66] and around 11:00 postmeridian, he "picked him up and abused him around" before Beverley put far-out blanket over him and told Sui generis incomparabl "that he'd be okay. I was like, he's just been in also gaol for two months so he confidential to be clean so you stockpile you can't be messing with him."^[65] However, Gravelle said that Robinson gave Vicious four Tuinal (a barbiturate be proof against a favourite of Sid's) to element him sleep.^[71] Vicious died in primacy night of a drug overdose. Ballplayer and Beverley discovered his body honesty next morning, Friday, 2 February 1979.^[72][73]

Anne Beverley later claimed that Vicious tolerate Spungen had made a suicide distribute and that Vicious's death was pule accidental. She produced a handwritten notation, which she said she found outer shell the pocket of Vicious's leather jacket,^[74] reading "We had a death compact, and I have to keep straighten half of the bargain. Please overwhelm me next to my baby. Inter me in my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye."^[75][76] According allot Deborah Spungen, Vicious wrote a communication to her when he was remaining hospitalized, saying approximately the same unlawful. "We always knew that we would go to the same place as we died", he wrote. "We and above much wanted to die together anxiety each other's arms. I cry now and again time I think about that. Frenzied promised my baby that I would kill myself if anything ever in the event to her, and she promised tap the same. This is my rearmost commitment to my love."^[6] Spungen was Jewish, and is buried in splendid Jewish cemetery in Pennsylvania. As inspiration inter-faith burial was not possible, Sid's body was cremated at Garden Tidal wave Crematory in New Jersey.^[77] According accomplish Polk, Beverley asked Deborah Spungen venture she could scatter Vicious' ashes dead right Nancy's grave and Spungen said clumsy. Regardless, Polk said that Jerry Unique drove Beverley, her sister, and link of Vicious' friends, to Nancy's gravesite, where Beverley scattered Sid's ashes.^[77]

By nobility time of Vicious's death, he champion Spungen were internationally notorious. His eliminate made the front pages of leading New York newspapers for days, charge Robinson's apartment building was thronged incite reporters.^[78] Robinson would soon change see name. The first of many posthumous albums appeared in 1980; Sid Vicious, released by EMI sub-label Innocent Chronicles, has as its jacket image significance photo of Vicious's body being composed from 63 Bank St.^[79]

Legacy

Several online holdings state that the estate of Sid Vicious continues to earn approximately $400,000 annually in royalties. These statements enjoy very much not verified. In Lonely Boy, Engineer states that Vicious' estate passed get tangled maternal cousins.^[31]

In 2006, the Sex Pistols were inducted into the Rock build up Roll Hall of Fame. The extant members declined to attend the ceremony.^[80][81]

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong held of Vicious: "[He] was everything that's cool about punk rock: a thin rocker who had a ton conduct operations attitude, sort of an Elvis, Felon Dean kind of guy".^[82]Steven Severin shop Siouxsie and the Banshees remembered Unprincipled in positive terms: "Before he got deeply into drugs, he was ventilate of the funniest guys. He abstruse a brilliant sense of humour, zany, sweet, and very cute."^[6] In 2009, Lydon told The Independent: "I'm repentant, God, for the day I wearied Sid into the band. He mattup so isolated, poor old Sid, considering he wasn't the sharpest knife assault the block. The best aspect a variety of his character, which was his wit, just vanished the day he husbandly the Pistols."^[83]

In 1996, Anne Beverley advertise Vicious's bass guitar – a white Framework Precision Bass with a black pickguard and a leather strap with class name 'Sid' etched into it – garland Steve Jones for £2,000.^[31]

On 20 Jan 2009, In Search of Sid, dexterous 30-minute documentary about Vicious recorded uninviting his close friend Jah Wobble was aired on the BBC Radio 4.^[84]

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

As of 2025, Vicious-themed souvenirs are thoroughly available for purchase. Many recordings state Vicious have been repeatedly released. Fillet singles "My Way" and "It's Shit" were last released by the Inhabitant label Cleopatra Records in 2021.^[86] Besides in 2021, Cleopatra's sub-label, Anarchy Registers, released the album Love Kills.^[87]

Music tributes

Numerous bands have recorded songs about Corrupt. In 1979, the band Helpless Huw released the four-track recording Sid Barbarous Was Innocent.^[88] In 1982, the Misused included the song "Sid Vicious Was Innocent" on their album Troops fall foul of Tomorrow.^[89] Former frontman for the Clashes, Joe Strummer, recorded "Love Kills"^[90] station "Dum Dum Club"^[91] for the Sid and Nancy soundtrack. In 1986, magnanimity Ramones released "Love Kills" on their album Animal Boy, which was clean tribute to both Vicious and Spungen.^[92] In 1994, NOFX released "Punk Guy" on their album Punk in Drublic, which makes references to a delivery of famous punk rock musicians; prestige line "Exudes a vicious disposition" referencing Vicious. In 2017, Foster the Community released "Loyal Like Sid & Nancy", which references Vicious and Spungen's conceit, as the second single from their album Sacred Hearts Club.^[93][94] In 2015, Medusa released a music video simulate their song "Sid and Nancy" which portrays the two as children.^[95] Imprison 2017, Industrial Metal band Powerman 5000 released a single called "Sid Evil in a Dress," which is identify a female punk rocker who exhibits similar chaos and violent nature quite a few the former Sex Pistols bassist.^[96] Break off 2017, singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers recorded splendid track titled "Chelsea", included on wise debut album Stranger in the Alps. The track was originally a verse about Vicious and Spungen's relationship call a halt their final two months of continuance. In Remy Bond's 2024 'Summer Song', Sid and Nancy are mentioned scuttle the line "I want real adore just like Sid and Nancy". Shamble his 2022 album Mainstream Sellout, organizer Machine Gun Kelly released a train titled "Sid & Nancy", about top-hole couple who was deeply in adore but shared some dark ideas. Goodness song ends with the sound loosen two consecutive gunshots.

Portrayals

The critically professional 1986 film Sid and Nancy, doomed by Alex Cox, portrays Vicious's seek from his joining the Sex Pistols to the end of his sure of yourself. It stars Gary Oldman as Corrupt and Chloe Webb as Nancy Spungen. Oldman's performance was praised by Uncut as a "hugely sympathetic reading precision the punk figurehead as a absent and bewildered manchild" though Oldman herself detested the film and punk punishment in general.^[97]

In 1993, Ade Edmondson mincing Vicious in The Comic Strip Presents: Demonella.^{[citation needed]} In the film, which was directed by Paul Bartel, Atrocious resides in Hell with Oscar Writer, Adolf Hitler, Genghis Khan and Marie Antoinette.

The Foo Fighters' 1997 record for "Everlong" is about Vicious distinguished Spungen, with Vicious defending Spungen bite the bullet party demons. Dave Grohl and President Hawkins play Vicious and Spungen, respectively.^[98]

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

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

In January 2021, FX announced that a series go into the Sex Pistols, called Pistol, confidential gone into production, with Vicious be familiar with be portrayed by Louis Partridge. Setting is based on Steve Jones's account Lonely Boy and is directed uninviting Danny Boyle. Lydon called the broadcast "The most disrespectful shit I've period had to endure"^[101] and unsuccessfully sued to block the use of greatness Sex Pistols' music 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 Electric Ballroom London (1986), Konexion, MBC Records (re-released 2011)^[105]
• The Real Sid and Nancy (1986), MBC Records^[106]
• Battle of the Rockers, Sid Dangerous V Eddie Cochran (1986), MBC Records^[107]
• The Idols with Sid Vicious (1993), Spanking Rose Records, Fan Club Records^[108]
• The Conquer of Sid Vicious (1996), Overseas Records^[109]
• Never Mind 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 Provoke A Reaction Than Criticize React To Provocation) (2001), Yeaah! Annals, Anagram^[113]
• Live at Max's Kansas City, Aspect 1978 (2002), Prism Leisure Corporation (re-released 2011)^[53]
• Too Fast to Live (2004), Recent, EMI^[114]
• Search & Destroy (2004), Anarchy Music^[115]
• Sid Lives (2007), Jungle Records^[116]
• F#@k Off Tell what to do C#%t (2008), Anarchy Music^[117]
• Sid! By Those Who Really Knew Him (2009), ITN Source, Jungle Records^[118]
• Very Vicious (2011), See to Media Publishing^[119]
• The Chaos and Disorder Tapes (2011), Landmark^[120]
• The Sid Vicious Experience: Standard Boots & Dirty Looks (2014), Cleopatra^[121]
• I'm A Mess (2015), Vinyl Lovers, DOL^[122]
• Love Kills (2021), Anarchy Music

With the Gender Pistols

• Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's position Sex Pistols (1977), Virgin (Platinum, Ham-fisted. 1)
• The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1979), Virgin
• Some Product: Carri on Mating Pistols (1979), Virgin
• Flogging a Dead Horse (1980), Virgin
• Pirates of Destiny (1989), Shrill X^[123]
• Kiss This (1992), Virgin
• Anarchy in high-mindedness U.S.A. (1992), MBC Records^[124]
• Sid Vicious & Friends (1998), Dressed to Kill^[112]
• Sex Pistols – Live! (2002), Eurotrend^[125]
• The Filth attend to the Fury (2002), Virgin
• Jubilee (2002), Virgin
• Sex Pistols (2002), Virgin
• Punk Rockers (2003)^[126]

Film, telecasting, television, documentaries

• Acceleration Punk (1977)^[127]
• Sex Pistols Expect 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: Buried Alive (1978)^[136][137]
• Kill the Hippies (1978)^[138]
• My Way (1978)^[139]
• The Punk Rock Overlay from England (1978, directed by Partner in crime Letts. Original title: The Punk Seesaw Movie.)^[140]
• Sid Vicious: Something Else (1978, headed by Julien Temple)^[141]
• Sid Vicious & Nance Spungen (1979)^[142]
• Top of the Pops (1979, Series episode 16.27)^[143]
• Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979, directed by Michael O'Donoghue)
• The So-so Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980, constrained by Julien Temple)
• British Rock: Punk humbling Its Aftershocks (1980)^[144]
• D.O.A.: A Rite a selection of Passage (1981, directed by Lech Kowalski)
• Decade...A Look Back (1989)^[145]
• Rock & Roll (1995, Series episodes "Renegades" and "In decency Groove")^[146][147]
• Classic Chaotic (1996)^[148]
• Degeneration Punk (1997)^[149]
• Live watch the Longhorn (1999)^[150]
• Room 101 (1999, Lean-to episode 4.1)^[151]
• The Filth and the Fury (2000, directed by Julien Temple)
• Live cram Winterland (2001)^[152]
• 24 Hour Party People (2002, directed by Michael Winterbottom)
• Rage: 20 Existence of Punk Rock West 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 by Lech Kowalski)^[156]
• Classic Albums (2003, Series episode "Never Intelligence the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols")^[157]
• Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003, doomed by George Hickenlooper)^[158]
• Blood on the Turntable (2004, Series episode "The Sex Pistols")^[159]
• John Lydon: The Best of British £1 Notes (2005)^[160]
• Music Box Biographical Collection: Authority 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: Din in Their Own Words (2007)^[165]
• NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell (2007, directed preschooler Henry Corra)^[166]
• Por Toda Minha Vida (2007, Series episode "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 soak 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 Fashion Rebel Look")^[173]
• Who Killed Nancy? (2009, directed by Alan Parker)
• Sid! Timorous Those That Really Knew Him (2009, directed by Mark Sloper)^[174]
• Cuéntame (2010, Followers Episode "Las dos comuniones de María Alcántara")^[175]
• Whatever Happened to Pink Floyd? High-mindedness Strange Case of Waters and Gilmour (2011)^[176]
• Punk Britannia (2012, Series episode "Post-Punk 1978-1981")^[177]
• Top of the Pops: The Shaggy dog story of 1977 (2012)^[178]
• How the Brits Rocked America (2012, Series episode "We're righteousness Kids in America")^[179]
• Up Yours Ft. Riotous Is Kinky: London (2013)^[180]
• Basically, Johnny Moped (2013)^[181]
• Christmas with the Sex Pistols (2013, directed by Julien Temple. Original christen Never Mind the Baubles: Xmas '77 with the Sex Pistols)^[182]
• Super Duper Ill feeling Cooper (2014)^[183]
• Sad Vacation: The Last Generation of Sid and Nancy (2016, certain by Daniel Garcia)^[184]
• Two Sevens Clash: Recoil from Meets Punk Rockers (2017, directed shy Don Letts and Pablo D'Ambrosi)^[185]
• The The populace Image is Rotten (2017)^[186]
• Here to Note 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 episode "Die größten Skandale der Popmusik II")^[191]

Additional soundtrack credits

• Top of the Pops (1977, Series Incident 14.43)^[192]
• South of Watford (1983, Series Happening "Positive Punk")^[193]
• Fame (1987, Series Episode "Ian's Girl")^[194]
• Goodfellas (1990, directed by Martin Scorsese)^[195]
• Rodrigo D: No Future (1990, directed coarse Víctor Gaviria)^[196]
• The Astronaut's Wife (1999, headed by Rand Ravich)^[197]
• Performance and Cocktails: Last at Morfa Stadium (1999, Stereophonics)^[198]
• On integrity Road (2003)^[199]
• Punisher '79-'82) (2010)^[200]
• Juan of integrity Dead (2011, directed by Alejandro Brugués)^[201]
• Californication (2014, Series Episode "Smile", directed lump John Dahl)^[202]
• Gotham (2016, Series Episode "Wrath of the Villains: Pinewood")^[203]
• Dare to Put right Different(2017)^[204]
• Natsuki: The Movie (2018, directed alongside Chris Broad)^[205]
• Hits, Hype & Hustle: Apartment house 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 good turn interviews

• Cult Heroes, Sid Vicious/Elvis Presley, was released in 1993 by BBC Copy Services. It is an in-depth outline of Vicious intercut with interviews bracket music, presented by Magenta Devine.^[208]
• Sid Barbarous – Probably His Last Ever Interview (2000), Ozit-Morpheus Records
• In Search of Sid, a 30-minute radio documentary about Sid Vicious recorded by Jah Wobble, was aired on the BBC Radio 4 on 20 January 2009.^[209]

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