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Sid Vicious
Sid Vicious
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Birth name	Simon John Ritchie
Also known as	Simon John Beverley
Genres	Punk rock, Punkabilly, Art rock, Glam Rock
Occupation(s)	Musician, Songwriter
Years active	1976 - 1979
Labels	Virgin

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Simon John Beverley, formerly Simon John Ritchie (May 10, 1957 – February 2, 1979), better known as Sid Vicious, was an English punk rock musician, the bass player of the Sex Pistols (replacing Glen Matlock).

Early life

Simon Ritchie was born in London to John and Anne Ritchie. Shortly after his birth, John Ritchie left the family. Beverly and his mother moved to the island of Ibiza, where his mother became a drug dealer.^[source?] She later married Christopher Beverly in 1965 before setting up a family home back in Kent.

His stepfather died six months later, and by 1968 Ritchie and his mother were living in a rented flat in Tunbridge Wells where he attended Sandown Court School. In 1971 the pair moved to Hackney in East London. He also spent some time living in Somerset where he was a pupil at Clevedon Community School or Clevedon Secondary Modern as it was then known.

Sid Vicious

Ritchie took his nickname, "Vicious", after his friend John Lydon's hamster, described by Lydon as "the softest, furriest, weediest thing on earth".^[1] At the time, he was squatting with Lydon, John Wardle (Jah Wobble) and John Gray (the four were sometimes referred to as The Four Johns).

The Bromley Contingent, Flowers of Romance, and the Banshees

Vicious began his musical career as a member of The Flowers of Romance along with former co-founding member of The Clash, Keith Levene (who later co-founded John Lydon's post-Pistols project Public Image Limited) and Palmolive and Viv Albertine, who would later form The Slits. He had loose associations with The Bromley Contingent, the fashion avant garde that followed the Sex Pistols, and appeared with Siouxsie & the Banshees, playing drums at their notorious first gig at the 100 Club Punk Festival in London's Oxford Street.

According to the band's photographer, Dennis Morris, Ritchie was "deep down, a shy person." However, he did assault NME journalist Nick Kent with a motorcycle chain in retaliation for Kent's domestic assault on former girlfriend Chrissie Hynde. On another occasion, at a London nightclub popular with rock stars of the day, The Speakeasy, he threatened BBC DJ and Old Grey Whistle Test presenter Bob Harris, which in turn resulted in Harris threatening him with legal action.

Sex Pistols

Already known as "the ultimate Sex Pistols fan," and a close friend of vocalist Johnny Rotten, Ritchie was asked to join the group after Glen Matlock's departure in February 1977. Manager Malcolm McLaren once claimed "if Rotten is the voice of punk, then Vicious is the attitude". He was not renowned for his playing skills, though he did have some composing ability, as was later shown when he composed the track "Belsen Was A Gas" entirely by himself. In his autobiography No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, Lydon writes, "he wasn't too bad at all for three-chord songs." Ritchie played his first gig with the Pistols on April 3, 1977, at the Screen on the Green in London. His debut was filmed by Don Letts and appears in Punk Rock Movie.

Nancy Spungen and the end of the Pistols

In November 1977, Ritchie met American groupie Nancy Spungen, and they immediately began a relationship (Spungen had come to London looking for Jerry Nolan of The Heartbreakers). She was a heroin addict, and Ritchie, who already believed in his own "live fast, die young" image, soon shared the dependence. Although they were deeply in love, their often violent and rocky relationship had a disastrous effect on the Sex Pistols. Both the group and Ritchie visibly deteriorated during their 1978 American tour. The Pistols broke up in San Francisco after their concert at the Winterland Ballroom on January 14, 1978. With Spungen acting as his "manager," Ritchie embarked on a solo career during which he performed with musicians including Mick Jones of The Clash, original Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock, Rat Scabies of The Damned and the New York Dolls' Arthur Kane, Jerry Nolan, and Johnny Thunders.

Spungen's murder

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Sid Vicious' arrest

Meanwhile, Ritchie and Spungen had become locked in their own world of drug addiction and self-destruction. Interview footage shows the couple attempting to answer questions from their bed: Spungen is barely coherent while Ritchie lapses in and out of consciousness. He also came very close to death following a heroin overdose and was hospitalized for some time.

On the morning of October 12, 1978, he awoke from a drugged stupor to find Spungen dead on the bathroom floor of their room (room 100) in the Hotel Chelsea in New York City. She had suffered a single stab wound to her abdomen and apparently bled to death. He was arrested and charged with her murder although he said he had no memory of having done so. There are several theories that Spungen was murdered by someone else, usually said to be one of the two drug dealers who visited the apartment that night, and involving a possible robbery as certain items (including a substantial bankroll) were claimed to be missing from the room. In his book, Pretty Vacant: A History of Punk, Phil Strongman names Spungen's killer as Rockets Redglare.

Bail of USD $50,000 was put up by Virgin Records at McLaren's request. The plan was for Vicious to record an album with fellow Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook in order to raise funds for his defense. This was to be a collection of standards including (according to McLaren) "White Christmas" and "Mack the Knife". It is also possible, according to Paul Cook, that the album was to be a selection of Ritchie's favorite songs and would have included tracks from The Stooges, the Ramones, the New York Dolls and The Heartbreakers.^[source?]

Death

On February 2, 1979, a small gathering to celebrate his release was held at the home of his girlfriend, Michele Robison, whom he'd started living with in October. During his time at Rikers Island jail, he had undergone drug rehabilitation therapy and was clean. However, at the dinner gathering, he obtained some heroin from his mother, took a tiny amount, and accidentally overdosed that night. His girlfriend revived him. Much later that night, the couple fell asleep. Ritchie was discovered dead the next morning. New York Chief Coroner Michael Baden explained at the time, when a person has an accidental heroin overdose, and then falls asleep, their heart slows with every REM phase. Ritchie died at around 10:00AM, after the repeated REM phases, throughout the night. Forensic experts subsequently found the heroin was 99 percent pure, which, "Nobody gets in this city, unless somebody wants somebody dead" as NYPD Homicide Detective Houseman said to Robison.

Phil Strongman contends that Rockets Redglare dealt the fatal dose of heroin; knowing who it was for, he ensured it was 99% pure rather than 22% (which itself was considered strong at the time).^[source?]

Aftermath

After Ritchie's death, his mother phoned Deborah Spungen, Nancy's mother, to request that he be buried next to her, but Deborah Spungen declined.

Sid Sings was released posthumously by Virgin Records. This was a collection of mostly cover versions recorded live at his gigs at Max's Kansas City in September 1978. Tracks included "C'mon Everybody" and "Something Else" by Eddie Cochran along with material by Iggy Pop and Johnny Thunders and a rendition of the Paul Anka / Frank Sinatra standard "My Way". Footage of Ritchie performing this song in Paris provides the closing sequence for Julien Temple's film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle. Also included on Sid Sings was a cover of the The Heartbreakers' "Born to Lose", which was recorded at the Sex Pistols last British gig at Ivanhoe's in Huddersfield on Christmas Day 1977, with Ritchie on vocals.

Discography

Singles

"My Way" (June 30, 1978) - (B-side Chatterbox)
"Something Else" (February 9, 1979)
"C'mon Everybody" (June 22, 1979)

Albums

Sid Sings (December 15, 1979)

Various pressings and bootlegs

My Way/Something Else/C’mon Everybody (1979, 12”, Barclay, Barclay 740 509)
Live (1980, LP, Creative Industry Inc., JSR 21)
Vicious Burger (1980, LP, UD-6535, VD 6336)
Love Kills N.Y.C. (1985, LP, Konexion, KOMA)
The Sid Vicious Experience – Jack Boots and Dirty Looks (1986, LP, Antler 37)
The Idols With Sid Vicious (1993, CD, Last Call Records, LC22289)
Never Mind the Reunion Here’s Sid Vicious (1997, CD)
Sid Dead Live (1997, CD, Anagram, PUNK 86)
Sid Vicious Sings (1997, CD)
Vicious & Friends (1998, CD, Dressed To Kill Records, Dress 602)
Better (to provoke a reaction than to react to a provocation) (1999, CD, Almafame, YEAAH6)
Probably His Last Ever Interview (2000, CD, OZIT, OZITCD62)
Better (2001, CD)
Vive Le Rock (2003, 2CD)
Too Fast To Live... (2004, CD)
Naked & Ashamed (7”, Wonderful Records, WO-73)
Sid Live At Max’s Kansas City (LP, JSR 21)
Sid Vicious (LP, Innocent Records, JSR 23)
Sid Vicious McDonald Bros. Box (3CD, Sound Solutions)

Sid Vicious & Friends

(Don’t You Gimme) No Lip/(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone (1989, 7”, SCRATCH 7)
Sid Vicious & Friends (1998, CD, Cleopatra, #251, ASIN: B0000061AS)

Sid Vicious/Eddie Cochran

Sid Vicious v’s Eddie Cochran – The Battle Of The Rockers (LP, Jock, LP 7)

Sid Vicious/Elvis Presley

Cult Heroes (1993, CD)

Films that include Sid Vicious

Sex Pistols Number One (1976, dir. Derek Jarman)
Julian Temple'sThe Great Rock N' Roll Swindle features famous Sid Vicious footage, such as his videos for "My Way" and "Something Else", along with various live Sex Pistols footage. There is also a video for "C'mon Everybody", of which only snippets are shown in the film.
Will Your Son Turn into Sid Vicious? (1978)
The Punk Rock Movie (1979, dir. Don Letts)
Dead on Arrival (1981, dir. Lech Kowalski)
The Filth And The Fury (2000, dir. Julien Temple, VHS/NTSC)
Mr. Mike's Mondo Video

A fictionalized film about the relationship between Vicious and Spungen, Sid and Nancy, was made by director Alex Cox in 1986, starring Gary Oldman as Vicious.

Adrian Edmondson played Vicious in The Comic Strip Presents: Demonella. He is shown in Hell, accompanied by Oscar Wilde, Genghis Khan, Marie Antoinette, and Adolf Hitler.

References

↑ Lydon, John, "Rotten", Plexus Publishing (1993), p. 57. ISBN 978-0859653411.

External links

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[Frame-1] Lydon, John, "Rotten", Plexus Publishing (1993), p. 57. ISBN 978-0859653411.

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+{{Unreferenced|date=February 2007}}
-'''Sid Vicious''' ([[May 10]], [[1957]] - [[February 2]], [[1979]]) was an [[England|English]] [[Punk rock|punk]] [[musician]]. His real name was ''John Simon Ritchie-Beverly''. He was a member of the [[band]] The [[Sex Pistols]] from [[February]] [[1977]] to [[January]] [[1978]], but played his [[Musical instrument|instrument]] (the [[bass guitar]]) very badly. His bad [[behavior]] was more important to the band than playing his [[instrument]] well.
+{{for|the professional wrestler|Sid Eudy}}
+{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->
+| Name                = {{PAGENAME}}
+| Img                 = Nancy Spungen.jpg
+| Img_capt            =
+| Background          = solo_singer
+| Birth_name          = Simon John Ritchie
+| Alias               = Simon John Beverley
+| Born                = {{birth date|1957|5|10|df=y}}<br>[[London, England|London]], [[England]]
+| Died                = 2 February 1979
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+| Genre               = [[Punk rock]], [[Punkabilly]], [[Art rock]], [[Glam Rock]] |
+| Occupation          = [[Musician]], [[Songwriter]] |
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+| Label               = [[Virgin Records|Virgin]] |
+| Associated_acts     = [[Sex Pistols]] |
+| URL                 = |
+| Notable_instruments = [[Bass guitar]], [[Singer|Vocals]], [[Drums]], [[Guitar]] (as a hobby)[[Saxophone]], [[trumpet]]|
+}}
+'''Simon John Beverley''', formerly '''Simon John Ritchie''' ([[May 10]], [[1957]] &ndash; [[February 2]], [[1979]]), better known as '''Sid Vicious''', was an [[England|English]] [[punk rock]] musician, the bass player of the [[Sex Pistols]] (replacing [[Glen Matlock]]).
-On [[October 22]], [[1978]] his [[girlfriend]] Nancy Spungen was killed with a [[knife]]. It is still not clear if Sid Vicious [[murder|killed]] her. Before he had to go to [[court]], he [[suicide|killed himself]] by using [[drug]]s.
+== Early life ==
-[[Category:English guitarists|Vicious, Sid]]
+Simon Ritchie was born in [[London]] to John and [[Anne Beverley|Anne Ritchie]]. Shortly after his birth, John Ritchie left the family. Beverly and his mother moved to the island of [[Ibiza]], where his mother became a drug dealer.{{Fact|date=June 2007}} She later married Christopher Beverly in 1965 before setting up a family home back in [[Kent]].
-[[Category:1957 births|Vicious, Sid]]
-[[Category:1979 deaths|Vicious, Sid]]
+His stepfather died six months later, and by 1968 Ritchie and his mother were living in a rented flat in [[Royal Tunbridge Wells|Tunbridge Wells]] where he attended Sandown Court School. In 1971 the pair moved to [[London Borough of Hackney|Hackney]] in East London. He also spent some time living in Somerset where he was a pupil at [[Clevedon Community School]] or [[Clevedon]] Secondary Modern as it was then known.
+===Sid Vicious===
+Ritchie took his nickname, "Vicious", after his friend [[John Lydon]]'s hamster, described by Lydon as "the softest, furriest, weediest thing on earth".<ref name="Frame">Lydon, John, "Rotten", Plexus Publishing (1993), p. 57. ISBN 978-0859653411.</ref> At the time, he was [[squatting]] with Lydon, John Wardle ([[Jah Wobble]]) and John Gray (the four were sometimes referred to as ''The Four Johns'').
+===The Bromley Contingent, Flowers of Romance, and the Banshees===
+Vicious began his musical career as a member of [[The Flowers of Romance (band)|The Flowers of Romance]] along with former co-founding member of [[The Clash]], [[Keith Levene]] (who later co-founded John Lydon's post-Pistols project [[Public Image Limited]]) and [[Palmolive (musician)|Palmolive]] and [[Viv Albertine]], who would later form [[The Slits]]. He had loose associations with [[The Bromley Contingent]], the fashion [[avant garde]] that followed the Sex Pistols, and appeared with [[Siouxsie & the Banshees]], playing drums at their notorious first gig at the [[100 Club Punk Festival]] in London's [[Oxford Street]].
+According to the band's photographer, [[Dennis Morris]], Ritchie was "deep down, a shy person." However, he did [[assault]] ''[[NME]]'' journalist [[Nick Kent]] with a motorcycle chain in retaliation for Kent's [[domestic violence|domestic assault]] on former girlfriend [[Chrissie Hynde]]. On another occasion, at  a London nightclub popular with rock stars of the day, The Speakeasy, he threatened [[BBC]] DJ and [[Old Grey Whistle Test]] presenter [[Bob Harris (radio)|Bob Harris]], which in turn resulted in Harris threatening him with legal action.
+==Sex Pistols==
+Already known as "the ultimate Sex Pistols fan," and a close friend of vocalist Johnny Rotten, Ritchie was asked to join the group after [[Glen Matlock]]'s departure in [[February]] [[1977]]. Manager [[Malcolm McLaren]] once claimed "if Rotten is the voice of punk, then Vicious is the attitude". He was not renowned for his playing skills, though he did have some composing ability, as was later shown when he composed the track "[[Belsen Was A Gas]]" entirely by himself. In his autobiography ''No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs'', Lydon writes, "he wasn't too bad at all for three-chord songs." Ritchie played his first gig with the Pistols on April 3, 1977, at the [[Screen on the Green]] in London. His debut was filmed by [[Don Letts]] and appears in ''[[Punk Rock Movie]]''.
+===Nancy Spungen and the end of the Pistols===
+In November 1977, Ritchie met American [[groupie]] [[Nancy Spungen]], and they immediately began a relationship (Spungen had come to London looking for [[Jerry Nolan]] of [[The Heartbreakers]]). She was a [[heroin]] addict, and Ritchie, who already believed in his own "live fast, die young" image, soon shared the dependence. Although they were deeply in love, their often violent and rocky relationship had a disastrous effect on the Sex Pistols. Both the group and Ritchie visibly deteriorated during their 1978 American tour. The Pistols broke up in [[San Francisco]] after their concert at the [[Winterland Ballroom]] on January 14, 1978. With Spungen acting as his "manager," Ritchie embarked on a solo career during which he performed with musicians including [[Mick Jones (The Clash)|Mick Jones]] of [[The Clash]], original Sex Pistols bassist [[Glen Matlock]], [[Rat Scabies]] of [[The Damned]] and the [[New York Dolls]]' [[Arthur Kane]], [[Jerry Nolan]], and [[Johnny Thunders]].
+==Spungen's murder==
+[[Image:Svarest.jpg|frame|Sid Vicious' arrest]]
+Meanwhile, Ritchie and Spungen had become locked in their own world of drug addiction and self-destruction. Interview footage shows the couple attempting to answer questions from their bed: Spungen is barely coherent while Ritchie lapses in and out of [[consciousness]]. He also came very close to death following a heroin overdose and was hospitalized for some time.
+On the morning of [[October 12]], [[1978]], he awoke from a drugged stupor to find Spungen dead on the bathroom floor of their room (room 100) in the [[Hotel Chelsea]] in [[New York City]]. She had suffered a single stab wound to her abdomen and apparently bled to death. He was arrested and charged with her murder although he said he had no memory of having done so. There are several theories that Spungen was murdered by someone else, usually said to be one of the two drug dealers who visited the apartment that night, and involving a possible robbery as certain items (including a substantial bankroll) were claimed to be missing from the room. In his book, ''Pretty Vacant: A History of Punk'', [[Phil Strongman]] names Spungen's killer as [[Rockets Redglare]].
+[[Bail]] of USD $50,000 was put up by [[Virgin Records]] at McLaren's request. The plan was for Vicious to record an album with fellow Pistols [[Steve Jones (musician)|Steve Jones]] and [[Paul Cook]] in order to raise funds for his defense. This was to be a collection of standards including (according to McLaren) "[[White Christmas (song)|White Christmas]]" and "[[Mack the Knife]]". It is also possible, according to Paul Cook, that the album was to be a selection of Ritchie's favorite songs and would have included tracks from [[The Stooges]], the [[Ramones]], the [[New York Dolls]] and [[The Heartbreakers]].{{Fact|date=February 2007}}
+==Death==
+On [[February 2]], [[1979]], a small gathering to celebrate his release was held at the home of his girlfriend, Michele Robison, whom he'd started living with in October. During his time at [[Rikers Island]] jail, he had undergone drug rehabilitation therapy and was clean. However, at the dinner gathering, he obtained some heroin from his mother, took a tiny amount, and accidentally overdosed that night. His girlfriend revived him. Much later that night, the couple fell asleep. Ritchie was discovered dead the next morning. New York Chief Coroner Michael Baden explained at the time, when a person has an accidental heroin overdose, and then falls asleep, their heart slows with every [[REM]] phase. Ritchie died at around 10:00AM, after the repeated REM phases, throughout the night. [[Forensic]] experts subsequently found the heroin was 99 percent pure, which, "Nobody gets in this city, unless somebody wants somebody dead" as [[NYPD]] Homicide Detective Houseman said to Robison.
+Phil Strongman contends that Rockets Redglare dealt the fatal dose of heroin; knowing who it was for, he ensured it was 99% pure rather than 22% (which itself was considered strong at the time).{{Fact|date=September 2007}}
+==Aftermath==
+After Ritchie's death, his mother phoned [[Deborah Spungen]], Nancy's mother, to request that he be buried next to her, but Deborah Spungen declined.
+''[[Sid Sings]]'' was released posthumously by Virgin Records. This was a collection of mostly cover versions recorded live at his gigs at [[Max's Kansas City]] in [[September]] [[1978]]. Tracks included "C'mon Everybody" and "[[Something Else (song)|Something Else]]" by [[Eddie Cochran]] along with material by [[Iggy Pop]] and [[Johnny Thunders]] and a rendition of the [[Paul Anka]] / [[Frank Sinatra]] standard "[[My Way (song)|My Way]]". Footage of Ritchie performing this song in Paris provides the closing sequence for [[Julien Temple]]'s film ''[[The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle]]''. Also included on ''Sid Sings'' was a cover of the [[The Heartbreakers]]' "Born to Lose", which was recorded at the Sex Pistols last British gig at Ivanhoe's in [[Huddersfield]] on [[Christmas Day]] [[1977]], with Ritchie on vocals.
+== Discography ==
+===Singles===
+*"[[My Way (song)|My Way]]" ([[June 30]], [[1978]]) - (B-side Chatterbox)
+*"[[Something Else (song)|Something Else]]" ([[February 9]], [[1979]])
+*"[[C'mon Everybody]]" ([[June 22]], [[1979]])
+===Albums===
+*''[[Sid Sings]]'' ([[December 15]], [[1979]])
+===Various pressings and bootlegs===
+* ''[[My Way (song)|My Way]]/[[Something Else (song)|Something Else]]/C’mon Everybody'' (1979, 12”, Barclay, Barclay 740 509)
+* ''Live'' (1980, LP, Creative Industry Inc., JSR 21)
+* ''Vicious Burger'' (1980, LP, UD-6535, VD 6336)
+* ''Love Kills N.Y.C.'' (1985, LP, Konexion, KOMA)
+* ''The Sid Vicious Experience &ndash; Jack Boots and Dirty Looks'' (1986, LP, Antler 37)
+* ''The Idols With Sid Vicious'' (1993, CD, Last Call Records, LC22289)
+* ''Never Mind the Reunion Here’s Sid Vicious'' (1997, CD)
+* ''Sid Dead Live'' (1997, CD, Anagram, PUNK 86)
+* ''Sid Vicious Sings'' (1997, CD)
+* ''Vicious & Friends'' (1998, CD, Dressed To Kill Records, Dress 602)
+* ''Better (to provoke a reaction than to react to a provocation)'' (1999, CD, Almafame, YEAAH6)
+* ''Probably His Last Ever Interview'' (2000, CD, OZIT, OZITCD62)
+* ''Better'' (2001, CD)
+* ''Vive Le Rock'' (2003, 2CD)
+* ''Too Fast To Live...'' (2004, CD)
+* ''Naked & Ashamed'' (7”, Wonderful Records, WO-73)
+* ''Sid Live At Max’s Kansas City'' (LP, JSR 21)
+* ''Sid Vicious'' (LP, Innocent Records, JSR 23)
+* ''Sid Vicious McDonald Bros. Box'' (3CD, Sound Solutions)
+'''Sid Vicious & Friends'''
+* ''(Don’t You Gimme) No Lip/(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone'' (1989, 7”, SCRATCH 7)
+* ''Sid Vicious & Friends'' (1998, CD, Cleopatra, #251, ASIN: B0000061AS)
+'''Sid Vicious/[[Eddie Cochran]]'''
+* ''Sid Vicious v’s Eddie Cochran &ndash; The Battle Of The Rockers'' (LP, Jock, LP 7)
+'''Sid Vicious/[[Elvis Presley]]'''
+* ''Cult Heroes'' (1993, CD)
+== Films that include Sid Vicious ==
+* ''Sex Pistols Number One'' (1976, dir. [[Derek Jarman]])
+*[[Julien Temple|Julian Temple's]]''[[The Great Rock N' Roll Swindle]]'' features famous Sid Vicious footage, such as his videos for "My Way" and "Something Else", along with various live Sex Pistols footage. There is also a video for "C'mon Everybody", of which only snippets are shown in the film.
+* ''Will Your Son Turn into Sid Vicious?'' (1978)
+* ''[[The Punk Rock Movie]]'' (1979, dir. Don Letts)
+* ''Dead on Arrival'' (1981, dir. [[Lech Kowalski]])
+* ''[[The Filth And The Fury]]'' (2000, dir. Julien Temple, VHS/NTSC)
+* ''[[Mr. Mike's Mondo Video]]''
+A fictionalized film about the relationship between Vicious and Spungen, ''[[Sid and Nancy]]'', was made by director [[Alex Cox]] in 1986, starring [[Gary Oldman]] as Vicious.
+[[Adrian Edmondson]] played Vicious in ''The Comic Strip Presents: Demonella''. He is shown in Hell, accompanied by [[Oscar Wilde]], [[Genghis Khan]], [[Marie Antoinette]], and [[Adolf Hitler]].
+==References==
+{{reflist}}
+==Further reading==
+* Anne Beverley, ''The Sid Vicious Family album'' (1980, Virgin Books)
+* Gerald Cole, ''Sid And Nancy'' (1986, Methuen)
+* [[Alex Cox]] & Abbe Wool, ''Sid And Nancy'' (1986, Faber and Faber)
+* Keith Bateson and Alan Parker, ''Sid’s Way'' (1991, Omnibus Press)
+* Tom Stockdale, ''Sid Vicious. They Died Too Young'' (1995, Parragon)
+* Malcolm Butt, ''Sid Vicious. Rock‘n’Roll Star'' (1997, Plexus)
+* David Dalton, ''El Sid'' (1998, St. Martin’s Griffin)
+* Sid Vicious, ''Too Fast To Live...Too Young to Die'' (1999, Retro Publishing)
+* Alan Parker, ''Vicious. Too Fast To Live...'' (2004, Creation Books)
+*Spungen's mother, [[Deborah Spungen|Deborah]], wrote a book about her daughter and her involvement with Vicious in ''[[And I Don't Want to Live This Life]]''.
+==External links==
+{{Wikiquote}}
+* [http://flickr.com/photos/sfitzstephens/132017797]
+* [http://www.thesmokinggun.com/vicious/vicious.html Vicious' confession to the NYPD and other documents]
+* [http://www.theviciousfiles.co.uk/frame1.html Site with pictures of the murder scene]
+* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3675 Sid Vicious' Photo & Death Certificate]
+* [http://www.wardsbookofdays.com/2february.htm The Life and Death of Sid Vicious @ ''Ward's Book of Days'']
+* [http://www.hotelchelseablog.com Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog]
+* [http://www.hotshotdigital.com/WellAlwaysRemember.2/SidVicious.html Sid Vicious @ "Hot Shot Digital Rock Tributes"]
+{{Sex Pistols}}
+{{DEFAULTSORT:Vicious, Sid}}
+[[Category:1957 births]]
+[[Category:1979 deaths]]
+[[Category:English punk rock bass guitarists]]
+[[Category:English punk rock drummers]]
+[[Category:English male singers]]
+[[Category:Sex Pistols members]]
+[[Category:Deaths by heroin overdose in the United States]]
+[[Category:Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees]]
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v t e Sex Pistols
Johnny Rotten Steve Jones Glen Matlock Paul Cook Sid Vicious
Studio albums	Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
Compilations and soundtracks	Spunk The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle Some Product: Carri on Sex Pistols Flogging a Dead Horse Kiss This Jubilee Sex Pistols Agents of Anarchy Silver Jubilee
Live albums	Anarchy in the U.K: Live at the 76 Club Filthy Lucre Live Live at Winterland 1978 Raw and Live Live & Filthy
Singles	"Anarchy in the U.K." "God Save the Queen" "Pretty Vacant" "Holidays in the Sun" "No One Is Innocent"/"My Way" "Something Else" "Silly Thing" "C'mon Everybody" "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle" "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" "Pretty Vacant" (live)
Other notable songs	"Belsen Was a Gas" "Bodies"
Films	Who Killed Bambi? D.O.A.: A Rite of Passage The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle Sid and Nancy The Filth and the Fury There'll Always Be an England Pistol
Related articles	Filthy Lucre Tour Nancy Spungen Malcolm McLaren Wally Nightingale Ronnie Biggs Edward Tudor-Pole Rich Kids Vicious White Kids Public Image Ltd The Professionals Ex Pistols Neurotic Outsiders Bromley Contingent