Before dawn,
on May 10, 1957, a child named John Simon Ritchie, the future Sid Withers, was born in London, not long after his father was lost This pair of orphans and widows walked away. The poor mother, Anne, had to take her child to Ibiza, a small Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea, where she lived with her friends until 1965. So it's no surprise that he grew up in a different environment. Among his mother's various friends, he first learned to swear loudly in Spanish. Anne, who changes jobs frequently, most regularly selling marijuana, is what Johnny Rotten calls a "wacky hippie".
Mother and son returned to London when Sid was eight. In order to find a place to live for herself and her child, Annie listened to her friend's words, thinking that she would be relieved to live in a house by pretending to be addicted to drugs. As a result, the fake drama came true. Come off-road. But also during this period, Anne remarried to an Oxford University graduate. The good father who saw Sid as his own died in the same year he got married - if he lived a little longer he might have educated a different Sid, who knows?
By the time Sid was in his teens, Anne couldn't handle him anymore. He loves music, idolizes David Bowie and T-Rex, imitates idols in exaggerated, feminine clothes, and acts increasingly outrageous and eccentric. The first half of the name Sid Vicious comes from the pet rat of friend John Lydon (Johnny Norton) (Sid did not like the name), and the second half comes from one of Lou Reed's song. The two and a group of others, who call themselves "Johns", frequent a fashion store on London's King's Road owned by Malcolm McLaren, a fashionista with a keen sense of smell. . When McLaren invited John Layton to his Sex Pistols in 1975, Sid decided to form his own band, The Flowers Of Romance. While the band also featured stars like Chrissie Hynde in later "Pretenders," the band itself never came to the surface. Sid went on to play drums in the band Siouxsie and the Banshees. When the "Sex Pistols" gradually gained attention, he became the most ardent follower of the "Sex Pistols".
In February 1977, John introduced him to the band to fill the bassist vacancy that left the band. His recommendation was for Sid's "lovable" personality and good looks. At this time, the "Sex Pistols" had just done the famous TV "swearing show", and suddenly became famous. Sid, dazed by the fame and the spotlight, agreed right away, and a week later he learned to play bass. In fact, Sid didn't know anything about music at all, recording the bass part with guitarist Steve Jones, and performing live performances with his amplifiers usually off. He had consulted with Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister, who, according to Lemmy, Sid was a hopeless student.
In early 1977, Johnny Thunders, the former "New York Dolls" (New York Dolls), brought his band to London for "Gold Rush", and he also brought a young "Flesh and Skin" with the team—— Nancy Laura Spungen. Born in Philadelphia on February 27, 1958, Nancy was born with jaundice and has been in trouble ever since. She took her first tranquilizer at 3 months because she cried so much; saw her first psychiatrist at 4; took drugs for the first time at 13 and was diagnosed with schizophrenia at 15 ...
Nancy came to London for one purpose, to sleep with the Sex Pistols. First she eyed Johnny Norton, but he turned it down; then guitarist Steve Jones, who was quickly dumped too; Sid was her third choice. It didn't take long for Nancy and her drugs to get Sid into a daze, and the teammates couldn't do anything about him. On their "disaster" trip to America, Sid smashed an audience member in the head with his bass in San Francisco; in Dallas, he scratched "Gimme A Fix" (look at me) on his chest Bruised with cuts and blood running from his face and chest all the way to his black jeans, he lifts the bandages on his arms and throws them at the audience, deepening the original wound and smiling contentedly; on the way to San Francisco , a truck driver provokes him with a lit cigarette butt in his hand, and Sid cuts his hand with a knife while continuing to eat lunch calmly.
In his days with Nancy, Sid's character oscillated back and forth between the gentleman and the beast. When Nancy was sick, he fed her like a nanny and reported her health to her mother every day. Nancy's mother recalls Sid being polite and shy on the phone. When the two of them visited the Spongan family's Philadelphia home, Sid was easygoing and childish. But at other times, Sid would abuse and beat Nancy, and Nancy admitted to her mother that Sid caused her injuries.
After the band disbanded in January 1978, Sid came to the United States. Nancy arranged for him to perform solo performances in Kansas and Philadelphia, and gave him a personal development plan. Due to Sid's lack of confidence, it was finally over, and he became a big star. The dream is doomed to fail. Sid imitated Johnny Rowton when he sang, only to get boos. He was destined to be just a follower, never a leader, and Johnny's shadow and Nancy's control kept him alive in the shadows of others. By then, Sid's biggest personal success was probably the song "My Way" (the funniest song I've ever heard), recorded in Paris with former teammate Steve Jones, in one fell swoop. Every movement was under Nancy's control, and she became Sid's protector, and Sid depended on her like a mother. By the end of 1978, the drug-dependent relationship between the unhappy lovers had become increasingly unstable and dangerous, but at least they were still in love.
After the night
in Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel, no longer may have been brilliant, but it has been a mysterious holy man revered by, a pioneer who prefer a paradise, a rock star world tour en route preferred end result - Mark Twain Win had stopped here, along with Eugene O'Neal, Jane Fonda, Dylan Thomas and Bob Dylan (where his first child was born), then the rock band "Jefferson Spaceship" and "Grateful to die". There are too many anecdotes here, but the most sensational is probably the murder of October 12, 1978. Sid was jailed for the murder of his girlfriend. McLaren asked Viking and Warner to post $50,000 bail for Sid. He promised to release a record for Sid and at least Can earn 100,000 yuan. "Viking" quickly remitted the money, and Sid was released on bail. After announcing that The Sex Pistols will be celebrating Sid's return with a Christmas album, McLaren has started selling new T-shirts in his store that read "I'm alive, she's dead, I'm you" of".
My mother was worried that something would happen to him again, so she flew to the United States to take care of him. She provided Sid with drugs, and then watched him inject it before she went to sleep at ease - this is Sid's mother, a mother who loves her children, and a mother who uses drugs to take care of her children.
In a letter to Nancy's mother, Sid wrote: "We always knew we were going to die in the same place, and we wanted to die in each other's arms, and I couldn't help crying every time I thought about it. She swore that I wouldn't live if she had an accident, and she swore the same. This is my last promise of my love." Sid's friends speculated that the drug dealer killed him for money. Nancy - who had 2 drug dealers in their room that night - but looking back, Nancy had attempted suicide several times, and her mother could easily imagine the situation, and there was a good chance that Nancy had provoked Sid. Kill her in order to end his pain and prove his love for her.
One night, the hotel waiter was stunned to find Sid, soaking wet, wielding a knife and cutting his arm while screaming, "I'm going to be with Nancy!" )'s brother, Todd, was arrested again after a fight in a nightclub. McLaren was a little hesitant this time, thinking it was a good opportunity for Sid to stay away from drugs, but eventually paid to bail him out again, on February 1, 1979.
That night, Sid celebrated his freedom with friends in his Greenwich Village apartment. He had not touched drugs in nearly two months. This time he wanted to enjoy himself, and he didn't care about the adverse reactions. After midnight, Sid recovered and used the drugs he found in his mother's purse. The next day the mother found her son dead in bed from a drug overdose. A note was found in his passport: "We have a death contract, which I must keep, please bury me next to the one I love, along with my leather jacket, jeans, and motorcycle boots. Goodbye!" Crazy Anne Desperately calling Nancy's mother, Deborah Spungen, to ask if she could bury her son with her daughter, Deborah surprisingly refused. But it was Sid's last wish, so one night a few days after his cremation, Anne crept into the "King David Jewish Cemetery" in Pennsylvania and scattered her son's ashes on Nancy's. around the grave.
Whether Sid died by suicide or accident, we have no way of verifying. Talking about these Annes, all I can do is laugh indifferently, and then hand over a small note with the title "Nancy" and Sid scrawled on it: "My Little girl, all your fears can't escape my eyes, holding you in my arms brings joy, I once kissed your tears, but now you're gone, there's nothing but pain left, if I can't help you And to live, life means nothing to me."
Fans believed that Sid's death was the ultimate expression of the punk spirit and a sign of his willingness to become a victim of the punk movement. His charisma is comparable to that of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe, and the fact that they are both losers, victims of society, there is no honor in such deaths.
A solo album called "Sid Sings" was published posthumously by Virgin Records and included "C'Mon Everybody," "Something Else," Other songs, and of course, a cover of "My Way" by Paul Anka and Frank Sinatra. In 1986, Alex Cox directed the film Sid and Nancy. Johnny Norton commented: "The guy who plays Sid is not bad, but it's just a stage performance, and it's far from a real person." Real person? What about "real people"? Even Sid's friends and acquaintances have conflicting recollections of him - dull, intelligent but inarticulate, sensitive, destructive, kind, grumpy, passive, and violent - the most unifying adjective would be "Trouble".
"Some people love him, some think he's a monster, but the real villains usually look like normal people," Cox said. "I think the movie romanticizes Sid and Nancy, but it's not Kudos to them because there's no honor here." There's a detail in the movie - Sid desperately tries to tidy up Nancy's messed-up room before her mom arrives because he's ashamed of Nancy's sloppy looks.
After Sid's death, Nancy's mother wrote in her daughter's book, "And I Don't Want to Live This Life," "The nightmare (of Sid's death) is finally over, We're going to move somewhere else - where Nancy hasn't lived in the room and she hasn't sat in the chair, and then I'm going to really cry for my baby girl. Her father and I are going to build a Fund, this is too late for Nancy, but it can give hope to other similar children and their parents." She also believes that Sid is not the murderer, "I see Sid as a partner, I have known him for a long time. , he's always been an old school guy. I don't have an opinion on everything that's happened because it's not about me and him, he's just being manipulated - that's all the problem. Sid won't kill Nan Akane, absolutely impossible."
In addition to Nancy's mother's book, there are many books about Sid. "Sid Vicious: The Life and Death of Sid Vicious," by Keith Bateson and Alan Parker, 1992; 2003 Malcolm Butt's Sid Vicious: Rock 'n' Roll Star; the latest is Alan Parker's indie, To Fast To Live).
For so many years, people have been arguing about his actions and love, murder and suicide. Sid is destined to "trouble" us all the time, past, present, and future...
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