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| Sid VicIouS 'We called him Vicious 'cos he wasn't vicious. He's just a big baby who eats sweets. Look at him!' Rotten on Vicious, December 1977. 'The way the papers did it was, like, 'Filthy, foul-mouthed Sex Pistol Sid Vicious guilty of murder. The trial will be next March.' I thought that was sick. I wonder what the repercussions of that are going to be. Heavy no doubt. I mean, how will it infiltrate into others, know what I mean?' Rotten on Vicious, December 1978 after his arrest for Nancy Spungen's death. |
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| The StoRy...... The Sex Pistols were the primary instigators of punk in the UK and most effective agitators. With their entourage, risibly dubbed the 'Bromley Contingent' by the music press, they feature extensively in the the book and exhibitions. The groupattacked all of England's sacred cows from the Queen to those New Aristocrats the Rolling Stones and within months of their first gigs countless teenagers realised that reverence towards anything, even previously hallowed pop stars was undeserved - anyone who had the front to do it could do it. A nation of bored youths ripped and customised their clothes, dyed and razored their hair, picked up guitars and stuck two fingers up to the world. Dispossessed punk adolescents grew up with the Pete Townshend doctrine "hope I die before I get old", burned into their consciousness', consequently some of the most colourful characters on the scene went too far, God rest their souls.The most notable of these was Sid Vicious who, after his arrest at the Chelsea Hotel in New York on 12 October 1978 for stabbing his girlfriend, Nancy Spungeon, died of a heroin overdose in February 1978. Rays 1976 - 1979's photos capture punk's chaotic growth and rapid evolution, from the Sex Pistols early gigs with Glen Matlock to Sid Vicious' enrolment as bass player. All of the most significant groups inspired by the Sex Pistols are represented in the Vacant book and exhibition from the Clash to Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Slits and the Adverts. Without Punk there would be no Oasis, Manic Street Preachers or Prodigy. There would be no Damien Hirst or Tracy Emins in the art world had it not been for punk: in literature no Irvine Welsh or Will Self: in fashion there would be no Alexander McQueen or John Galliano. We live in punk's afterglow. |
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| It is said that the shabby rooms of New York City's fabled Chelsea Hotel are inhabited by ghosts--of Mark Twain, Janis Joplin and other luminaries who once occupied them. But none of the wandering souls could tell a more haunting tale than the spirits of Nancy Spungen and her lover, Sid Vicious. For it was in the early morning hours of Oct. 12, 1978, in room 100, that Sid ended his tempestuous 21-month relationship with Nancy by stabbing her to death with a hunting knife. Four months later, in agony without her, he ended his own tortured life as well. At the time, Sid was 21 years old. As bass player for the Sex Pistols, which had broken up a year earlier, he was a member of one of Britain's most influential and incendiary punk-rock bands. Nancy, 20, had been his most ardent fan. Together, the couple were in the forefront of rock's avant-garde, two dog-collared nihilists who brought their twisted, gothic romance to its ill-fated end. |
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