Sid Vicious

Film & TV

Acting · Lewisham, London, England United Kingdom

Sid Vicious, born John Simon Ritchie, was an English musician and vocalist. He achieved fame as a member of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols, replacing Glen Matlock, who had fallen out of favour with the rest of the group. American expatriate Chrissie Hynde, before she formed the Pretenders, tried to convince Ritchie to join her in a sham marriage so she could get a work permit in the UK. John…

Known for

• 70 Years of Youth Revolt — Self (archive footage)2020
• Here to be Heard: The Story of The Slits — Self (archive footage)2018
• Two Sevens Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers — Self2017
• Sad Vacation: The Last Days of Sid and Nancy2016
• Never Mind the Baubles: Xmas '77 with the Sex Pistols — Sid Vicious (archive footage)2013
• Sex Pistols: Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols — Self - Bass2013
• Sex Pistols: Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols — Self2012
• Queen: Days of Our Lives — Self (archive footage)2011
• Sex Pistols: The Whole Story — Self2011
• Sid! By Those Who Really Knew Him — Himself2009

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1957

Active to

1979

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

147,957

Total plays

1,113,905

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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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease identifies new risk loci and implicates Aβ, tau, immunity and lipid processing

   · 2019 · cited 2,857x

2. Wild-Type <i>KRAS</i> Is Required for Panitumumab Efficacy in Patients With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

   · 2008 · cited 2,606x

3. New insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias

   · 2022 · cited 2,315x

4. Diagnostic Criteria for Parkinson Disease

   · 1999 · cited 2,314x

5. Preclinical Alzheimer's disease: Definition, natural history, and diagnostic criteria

   · 2016 · cited 1,718x

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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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