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Sid Vicious

The old school register for Soho Parish Primary school has a note in the margin recording that 5-year-old John Simon Ritchie turned up for his first day at school unaccompanied in September 1962. He'd walked from his mum's council flat near Drury Lane across Covent Garden and several major road junctions to Gt Windmill Street alone. Somehow it's a fitting start to the wild and troubled life that would be Sid Vicious's. It's also a story that's indicative of the detailed research Alan Parker has put into this biography of Sid Vicious. He spent an evening discussing young Simon Ritchie's schooldays with the headmistress of Soho Parish has interviewed the likes of fellow Sex Pistols Paul Cook and Glen Matlock at length as well as numerous other punk luminaries and Malcolm McLaren who hasn't spoken about Sid and the Sex Pistols for many a year now. (McLaren has agreed to write the foreword.) The basics of Sid Vicious's brief 21 years are well known: art school junkie mother life in a squat a year in the Sex Pistols until their demise in 1978 Nancy Spungeon's death Sid's arrest followed by Sid's own fatal overdose on February 2nd 1979.What Parker brings is a wealth of new detail to the story much gained from the New York Police Department and extensive interviews with Anne Beverley (Sid's mother) prior to her own suicide in 1996. This will be the definitive and final word on Sid Vicious and will also feature exclusive/previously unseen photographs.
 
 


Category: Music
Condition: New
ISBN: 9780752875460  Published: 2007
Author: Alan Parker  
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co





                      
                      
                      



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