Sid Vicious (1957 – 1979)
Born John Simon Ritchie-Beverly, was an English punk-rock musician who was bass player for the Sex Pistols.
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I'm not vicious really. I consider myself kind-hearted. I love my mum.
American audiences are just the same as anybody else. Except a bit more boring.
Well, you know, like, I don't really give a fuck what the general public think.
Everybody wanted to be with Sid, but unfortunately he came with Nancy. She was unbelievably thick-skinned, one of the most unlikable people I've met. Everybody could see through her, except Sid.
All I did was cash in on the fact that I'm good-looking and I have a good figure and girls like me.
The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.
As soon as (Sid) realised how much everyone hated Nancy, man, he stuck to her like a stamp to a letter. Thatīs why he was called "Sid": he hated the name Sid, so everyone called him Sid. Thatīs what that whole scene was about. But when we got fucked up, he got very violent actually. He was shooting speed before he met Nancy, and when she got him into dope it was a very easy switch to make; then it was all over for him. He`d never been with a woman before, where she had that kind of control over him... Nancy was an opportunist. I'm not even going to say whether I liked her or not, but she had a negative effect on Sid and he didn't need that.
I'm not chic, I could never be chic. I was in it from its inception.
You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you've got music.
We had a death pact. I have to keep my half of the bargain. Please bury me next to my baby in my leather jacket, jeans and motor cycle boots. Goodbye.
I'll probably die by the time I reach 25. But I'll have lived the way I wanted to.
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