Sid Vicious

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John Simon Ritchie-Beverley (May 10, 1957 – February 2, 1979), better known as Sid Vicious, was an English punk rock musician and bassist for the Sex Pistols. He died of a heroin overdose at the age of 21. In November 1977 Ritchie met American groupie Nancy Laura 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 inevitably Ritchie, who already believed in his own "live fast, die young" image

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Quotes

• “I'm not vicious really. I consider myself kind-hearted. I love my mum.”
• “I'll probably die by the time I reach 25. But I'll have lived the way I wanted to.”
• “Well, you know, like, I don't really give a fuck what the general public think.”
• “American audiences are just the same as anybody else. Except a bit more boring.”
• “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.”
• “You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music.”

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