She was into the hardcore drug thing - heroin and opiates - which was all-embracing, that was her life. As we speak, Wobble recalls, for the first time, a chilling incident. Even before his notoriety, Sid had "a weird, brooding quality. He would loon about, he was very bright, but he had another side.
He was very hurt, I now realise. Even then he made me feel cautious. An hour or two of his company was enough. He had a counsellor at Kingsway: they had obviously identified him as a kid with problems. He'd already said that he was going to kill himself. The counsellor had told him to bring a friend along so we both went one day, for a laugh. The counsellor was a very earnest, Hampstead bloke, and he didn't know what he was dealing with.
His mouth was open. It was supposed to be fun, but as I came out, I thought: 'Oh God. Sid starts to enter the public domain during the spring of He is pictured at the Nashville pub in April, watching the Sex Pistols attack their audience. He is implicated, along with Wobble, in the violence directed at journalist Nick Kent during a Sex Pistols show at the Club. The suggestible teenager was being shaped by malign forces. The zeitgeist was nihilistic. There were hard drugs around.
It was that time and generation: a reaction against the 60s. Sid might have begun, in Albertine's words, as "softer, sheepish and shy" but as punk became a national phenomenon, he started to grow into his role. The next day, during the Damned's set, a glass was thrown and a young woman received severe eye injuries. Sid was arrested and packed off to Ashford Remand Centre. While there, he wrote a letter to Albertine: he was reading a "book about Charles Manson that Vivienne Westwood lent me".
He found it "quite fascinating". Sid became the Sex Pistols ur-fan. Encouraged to run wild, constantly drunk, he became the figurehead of the new movement, inventing the pogo dance and coming out with pithy, nihilistic statements that defined the new age. I was too busy playing with my Action Man"; "I've only ever been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror. Sid formed a band with Albertine, the Flowers of Romance. He learnt the bass by listening to the first Ramones album: fixing on the bump and grind pattern from I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement, he would apply it to nearly every song that he touched.
In February , he stepped into the role he felt he was born to play, replacing Glen Matlock as the Sex Pistols bassist. Within a few months he had hooked up with Nancy Spungeon, a New Yorker who, although slightly younger, was more worldly than him. Her appetite for self-destruction matched, if not exceeded his own. They genuinely loved each other, but Nancy had a disastrous effect on Sid.
Already a junkie, she reintroduced him to the drug and so Sid was cast into his last, and most enduring, phase: that of leather-clad, random destruction machine. Subtlety had never been Sid's forte and he was not hired for his dexterity and, in fact, played on few Pistols records : he was John Lydon's friend and, as far as manager Malcolm McLaren was concerned, the perfect assistant in the Sex Pistols' career as national and international outrages.
Wobble says now: "Sid was offered up as a sacrificial lamb by the people around the Pistols. None of them would have gone over the top.
He was their kamikaze pilot, and they were all too happy to strap him and send him off. His death, which likely came as a surprise to very few, came on February 2, Sid Vicious was the last member to join the Sex Pistols, taking over for fired bassist Glen Matlock in early What he famously did not bring to the table was musical ability. Vicious faked his way through early gigs with the band, reportedly with his amplifier occasionally unplugged on stage by his own band mates.
What he didn't have to fake was the attitude. Sid Vicious was the perfect living embodiment of the punk esthetic, a street kid who really did walk around London with a swastika on his chest, a padlocked chain around his neck and a gigantic chip on his shoulder.
As his good friend the critic and author Alan Jones put it, "Sid, on image alone, is what all punk rests on. Almost immediately, they began a relationship that led to both of their deaths. By all reports, they were very much in love, but their shared heroin addiction led to repeated instances of violence between them. Sid's addiction may have hastened the dissolution of the Sex Pistols midway through their first U. Freed on bail after his arrest for the Spungen murder, Sid landed himself back in jail in December for assaulting Patti Smith's brother in a bar with a broken bottle.
After seven weeks of detention and detox in the Rikers Island jail, Vicious made bail again on February 1, Sid Vicious died in the early morning hours of February 2, But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
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His sudden death only fueled his legacy as a punk rock icon. His twisted love affair with Spungen was the inspiration for the film Sid and Nancy , starring actor Gary Oldman as Vicious. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives.
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