Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Sid Vicious - My Way

Simon John Ritchie aka Sid Vicious May 10. 1957 – February 2, 1979 best known as the bassist of the influential punk rock group Sex Pistols.
Manager Malcolm McLaren once claimed "if Johnny Rotten is the voice of punk, then Vicious is the attitude."
McLaren also said in person and in a documentary that if he'd met Sid before he had hired Johnny to be the singer, Sid would have been the Sex Pistols front man, because he had the most charisma of anyone on that stage.
A television documentary titled "Biography: The Sex Pistols" on the Biography Channel made the following statement, based on an apparent confession from Vicious' mother Anne Ritchie.
On February 2nd, 1979 only days after his release from Bellevue and just before he was about to stand trial for the murder of Nancy Spungen, Sid Vicious' mother injected him with heroin and he died in bed. She later admitted that she knowingly gave her son enough drugs to kill two people. In a bizarre deathbed confession, Anne Ritchie justified taking her son's life by saying, 'There was no way that Sid would have been able to cope with life behind bars.'
How prophetic is the picture at around the 2:10 mark,"Drugs Kill". This video sure does have some great photos in it. He definitely lived a full life in his short time here and made sure he did everything 'His Way'..."lay back and groove"

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