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Casino Steel
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John Simon Ritchie
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Anne Beverly
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Eileen Polk
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Mick Jones
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Jerry Nolan
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Dee Dee Ramone
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Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 (Sid`s suicide note:) On John Lydon, a.k.a. Johnny Rotten: "John`s just jealous because I`m the brains of the group. I`ve written all the songs, even from the beginning when I wasn`t in the group."
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We`re really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don`t they?
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You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you`re got music.
(brainyquote.com)
When there are no more categorizations; when there are no more "niggers", when there are no more "whites", when there`s just "people", you know, when there`s no more "punks" when there`s no more "dirt", that is when everything is gonna be OK.
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On drugs: "I don`t want to be a junkie for the rest of my life. I don`t want to be a junkie at all."
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[towards the end of the Sex Pistols career] "In the end I was the only one with any anarchy left in me."
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I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.
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[Talking about joining the Sex Pistols] I was getting my own group together; "The Flowers of Romance", and John (Lydon) said to me - there was this big hoo-haa, and Malcolm was saying "it`s all a big secret man, you know. Come down to this pub at such-and-such", and I thought they were gonna do me over cos I didn`t turn up to one of Rotten`s parties or something - he gets touchy over things like that. And they said "do you wanna play bass for The Sex Pistols?"
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We are better than anyone, ain`t we? Except for the Eagles, the Eagles are better than us.
(brainyquote.com)
I`m not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.
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I`ve only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.
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You can`t arrest me, I`m a rockstar.
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Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don`t let them take you ALIVE.
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I got this feeling I`m gonna die before I get old. I don`t know why. I just have this feeling.
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I just cash in on the fact that I`m good looking, and I`ve got a nice figure and girls like me.
(brainyquote.com)
On what EMI thought the Sex Pistols were: "We weren`t the nice boys they thought we were. And, we weren`t nice boys, we were fuckin` nasty little bastards... and we still are.
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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.
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I`m not chic, I could never be chic.
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I`ll die before I`m 25, and when I do I`ll have lived the way I wanted to.
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American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.
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“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.”
“I`ve only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.”
“Well, you know, like, I don`t really give a fuck what the general public think.”
“Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don’t let them take you ALIVE.”
Trivia
His ashes were scattered on Nancy Spungen's grave by his mother, Ann. Eileen Polk said that Spungen's family would not allow Sid to be buried next to her, despite his request, nor would the Jewish cemetery permit scattering the ashes there. They were escorted through the cemetery and Ann later returned to scatter the ashes in secret.
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Boyfriend of Nancy Spungen.
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Invented the "pogo" dance. Vicious went to a Sex Pistols gig before he joined the band and wanted to get a better look at them so he would jump up and down in a frenzy, and soon it caught on and more and more people did it.
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Murdered his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, in 1978. Trial for the murder began January 2, 1979. Sid died before the trial ended. He confessed to the murder, but from his story and the evidence surrounding the murder scene, it appears she encouraged him to do it.
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There was no key for his padlock chain necklace.
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His stage name was given to him as a joke, because of his inability to defend himself in a fight. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) once commented, "Sid couldn't punch his way out of a bag of crisps!"
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On 2 February 1980, in honor of the first anniversary of Sid's death, one thousand punks marched from London's Sloane Square in Chelsea to Hyde Park. His Mother, Anne Beverly, was supposed to have taken part in the proceedings, but she was in the hospital due to a drug overdose.
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His $50,000 bail from the second degree murder charge was revoked when he was arrested for hitting Patti Smith's brother, Todd, with a beer mug one night at a New York club.
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Was a member of the "Bromley Contingent," a group of young punk fans who followed the Pistols and other punk bands around England.
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During the famed summer 1976 "Punk Festival" at London's 100 Club, Vicious became involved in a brawl with another punk, and tossed a beer mug at him. The mug missed, shattered against a pillar, and put a girl's eye out. Vicious was charged, convicted and fined for the incident.
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Gained the emnity of the Clash's Mick Jones due to his habit of wearing a Nazi Swastika t-shirt. Jones, who is Jewish, and the rest of the Clash vowed they would never appear on stage with the Sex Pistols.
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Is portrayed by Gary Oldman in Sid and Nancy (1986)
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Former bassist for the pioneering punk band The Sex Pistols.
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He was allegedly stunningly musically incompetent, even by punk standards. His bass work was so rudimentary, that it's rumored (and all the members of the band corroborate) that original Sex Pistol bassist Glen Matlock was invited to return to record basslines over Vicious' originals, even though he had left the band under extremely acrimonious circumstances.
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For a short time Sid played drums for Siouxie and the Banshees in the 1970's.
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During the filming of Alex Cox's "Sid and Nancy", Sid's mother gave the actor who played Sid (a relative unknown named Gary Oldman) Sid's famous padlock necklace.
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