Today, many years later, the greatest contribution of "sex pistol" is to carry forward and inherit the criticism, originality and independence of rock music, create punk culture with rebellious spirit, and create a large number of underground non-mainstream orchestras with independent spirit in later generations.
1977 65438+ February, new york, midnight on a Sunday. An interview with Sid Vicious is being broadcast on TV. The name of the program is "What's wrong with our city?" . Sid's single "My Way" was used as the prologue. The host was amused by this song, and Sid laughed the most-"It's fucking nice, isn't it?" . The format of the program is that the audience calls in to ask questions and our punk star answers them. Rinrin's phone keeps ringing. When the first call came in, the man who claimed to be a university professor said, "In the 1960s, those rock stars all looked deformed; In the 1970s, these people were like monsters. Why ... "Sid rudely interrupted him:" Hang up the phone and tell yourself, you bitch. " -This is the answer.
The next call was from a person with a low education. As soon as he came up, he said to the host, "Why do you want to do such a program, what ..." Sid replied first, "Tell yourself, pervert!" Sid burped loudly, the decibel was higher than that of Concorde, and then he leaned back, rubbed his hair with his hand and made a face at the camera-Sid finally relaxed now (before the show started, the TV people put a bunch of tacky fake flowers in front of Sid, and Sid tried to pick them off. The staff said angrily, "Is it because they did it? Really? " As a result, Sid soaked them in a pitcher.
This situation lasted 1 hour, and the audience asked insulting or ridiculous questions, and Sid answered them one by one.
Before dawn
On May 6th, a child named John Simon Rich (now Sid Vicious) was born in London, and his father left the orphans and widows soon. Anne's mother was so poor that she had to take her children to Ibiza, a Spanish island in the Mediterranean, and live with her friends until 1965. It is not surprising that he grew up in different environments. Among his mother's friends, he first learned to swear loudly in Spanish. Annie often changes jobs. Her most regular job is selling marijuana. Johnny Roth called her an "eccentric hippie".
When Sid was eight years old, his mother and son returned to London. In order to find a place to live for herself and her children, Anne listened to her friend and thought that she could be given a house to live in by pretending to take drugs. As a result, the fake scene came true. She was addicted to drugs, and more and more children were released from cross-country. But it was during this period that Anne remarried to an Oxford University graduate. This good father who regarded Sid as his own died the year he got married-if he had lived longer, he might have educated a different Sid, who knows?
When Sid was a teenager, Anne could no longer control him. He loves music, worships David Bowie and Tyrannosaurus Rex, imitates idols, wears exaggerated and feminine clothes, and acts more and more radical and eccentric. The first half of the name Sid Vicious comes from a friend john lydon's pet mouse (Sid doesn't like this name), and the second half comes from a song by Lou Reed. The two of them and a group of people call themselves "John" and often haunt a fashion clothing store in King's Road, London. The owner is malcolm mclaren, a fashion figure with a keen sense of smell. When McClaren invited john lydon to join his band Sex Pistol on 1975, Sid decided to form his own band-Romantic Flowers. Although the band also produced stars like keresey Hyde in the later Pretender, the band itself never surfaced. After that, Sid joined the band Siouxsie and Banshee as drummers. When the "sex pistol" gradually attracted people's attention, he became the most enthusiastic follower of the "sex pistol".
1February, 977, John introduced him to join the band to fill the vacancy where the bass player left the team. The reason for recommending him is Sid's charming personality and beautiful appearance. At this time, "Sex Pistol" just made the famous TV "Swearing Program" and became famous at once. Blinded by fame and spotlight, Sid immediately agreed, and a week later he learned to play the bass. As a matter of fact, Sid knows nothing about music. When recording, the bass part is arranged by guitarist steve jones. When performing live, his speakers are usually turned off. He had consulted lemmy kilmister in Motorhead, and according to Remy, Sid was a hopeless student.
At the beginning of 1977, Johnny Lei Ensi, a former "New York doll", took his band to London for a "gold rush" and a young "skinny"-Nancy Laura Spungen. Nancy was born in Philadelphia on February 27th, 1958. She was born with jaundice and has been in trouble ever since. Because I love crying too much, I took sedatives for the first time when I was three months old. I first saw a psychiatrist at the age of 4; She first took drugs at the age of 13, and was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 15. ...
Nancy came to London for only one purpose, that is, to sleep with a sex pistol. First of all, she aimed at Johnny Norton, but he refused; Then the guitarist steve jones was quickly dumped; Sid is her third choice. Before long, Nancy and her drugs fascinated Sid, and his teammates could do nothing about him. During their "disaster" trip to the United States, in San Francisco, Sid hit an audience on the head with a double bass; In Dallas, he scratched "Give me a patch" on his chest and cut himself badly. Blood flowed from his face and chest to his black jeans. He opened the bandage on his arm and threw it at the audience to make the original wound deeper, while smiling contentedly. On the way to San Francisco, a truck driver put a lit cigarette butt in his hand and challenged him. Sid cut his hand with a knife and continued to eat lunch calmly.
When I was with Nancy, Sid's role swung back and forth between a gentleman and a beast. When Nancy was ill, he fed her like a nanny and reported her health to her mother every day. Nancy's mother recalled that Sid was polite and shy when he called. When they visited the Spengans in Philadelphia, Sid was easy-going and full of childlike innocence. But at other times, Sid would insult and beat Nancy, and Nancy admitted to her mother that Sid had caused her harm.
1978 After the band broke up in June, Sid came to America. Nancy arranged for him to give solo performances in Kansas and Philadelphia, and made personal development plans for him. Sid's dream of becoming a big star is doomed to failure because of his lack of confidence. Sid got only boos when he imitated Johnny Lawton's singing. He is destined to be just a follower and will never be a leader. Johnny's shadow and Nancy's control make him always live in the shadow of others. Before that, Sid's greatest success in his personal career should be the song My Road (the funniest song I have ever heard). This song was recorded in Paris with her former teammate steve jones, and every move was under Nancy's control. She became Sid's protector, and Sid depended on her like a mother. By the end of 1978, the relationship between unhappy lovers maintained by drugs became more and more unstable and dangerous, but at least they still loved each other.
after dark
Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan, new york may have lost its former glory, but it has always been a revered and mysterious shrine, a paradise favored by pioneers, and the first stop of a rock star's world tour-Mark Twain once stayed here, along with Eugene O 'Neill, jane fonda, dylan thomas and Bob Dylan (his first child was born here), followed by the rock band Jefferson Spaceship and Thanksgiving. There are countless anecdotes here, and the most sensational one should be the murder case of 1978 10+02. Sid was accused of murdering his girlfriend and sent to prison. McClaren asked Viking and Warner to pay Sid $50,000 bail. He promised to record for Sid and earn at least 654.38 million yuan. "Viking" quickly remitted the money and Sid was released on bail. After announcing that Sex Pistol would celebrate Sid's return with a Christmas album, McClaren began to sell new T-shirts with the words "I am alive, she is dead, and I am yours" in his shop.
Worried that he would have an accident again, his mother flew to America to take care of him. She gave Sid medicine, then watched him inject it, and then she went to sleep-this is Sid's mother, a mother who loves her children and a mother who takes care of her children with medicine.
In a letter to Nancy's mother, Sid wrote: "We always knew that we would die in the same place, and we wanted to die in each other's arms. Whenever I think about it, I can't help crying. I swore to her that if anything happened to her, I would not live, and she swore the same oath. This is my last promise to love. " Sid's friend speculated that the drug dealer killed Nancy for money-two drug dealers entered their room that night-but in retrospect, Nancy tried to commit suicide many times, and her mother could easily imagine the scene. Nancy is likely to stimulate Sid to kill her to end her pain and prove his love for her.
One night, the waiter was stunned to find that Sid, who was soaked to the skin, was slashing his arm with a knife and screaming, "I want to be with Nancy!" " "In February 65438, patty smith was arrested again for fighting with his brother Todd in a nightclub. McClaren hesitated this time. He thought it was a good chance for Sid to stay away from drugs, but in the end he paid for bail again. This is 1979 February 1.
That night, Sid celebrated his freedom with friends in his apartment in Greenwich Village. He hasn't touched drugs for nearly two months. He wants to enjoy it this time, and he doesn't care about the bad reaction at all. After midnight, Sid woke up and used the drugs found in her mother's wallet again. The next day, the mother found her son dead in bed because of overdose. A note was found in his passport: "We have death pact. I must keep my promise. Please bury me next to the person I love, along with my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye! " Crazy Anne desperately called Nancy's mother Deborah Spangan and asked her if she could bury her son and daughter together. Deborah refused in surprise. But this was Sid's last wish, so one night a few days after his cremation, Anne sneaked into King David Jewish Cemetery in Pennsylvania and scattered her son's ashes around Nancy's grave.
We have no way to prove that Sid died of suicide or accident. Speaking of this, Annie just smiled indifferently, and then handed me a small note with "Nancy" written on it. Sid scribbled: "My little girl, all your fears can't escape my eyes. Holding you in my arms brought infinite joy and kissed away your tears, but now that you are gone, there is nothing but pain. If I can't live for you,
Fans all think that Sid's death is the ultimate expression of punk spirit and a sign that he is willing to be a victim of punk movement. His charm is comparable to that of james deen and Marilyn Monroe. In fact, they are all losers and victims of society. This kind of death has no glory.
After his death, Viking Records released a solo album called "Sid Singing", which included songs such as "Come on, Everyone", "Others" and, of course, the cover of "My" by paul anka and Frank Sinatra. From 65438 to 0986, alex cox directed the film Sid and Nancy. Johnny Norton commented: "The guy who plays Sid is not bad, but it's just a stage performance, far from the real person." "Real people? What about "real people" Even Sid's friends and acquaintances have contradictory memories of him-slow, clever but inarticulate, sensitive, destructive, kind, irritable, passive and violent-and the most unified adjective should be "trouble".
"Some people love him, some people think he is a monster, but a real villain usually looks like a normal person." Cox said, "I think the movie romanticized Sid and Nancy, but this is not to praise them, because there is no honor here." There is a detail in the movie-before mom arrived, Sid tried his best to clean up Nancy's messy room because he was ashamed of Nancy's untidiness.
After Sid's death, Nancy's mother wrote in the book "I don't want to live like this" for her daughter: "The nightmare (Sid's death) is finally over, and we will move to another place-Nancy has never lived in a room there or sat in a chair. At that time, I would really cry for my baby daughter. Her father and I are going to set up a fund for children who take drugs, which is too late for Nancy, but it can give other similar children and their parents a hope. " She also believes that Sid is not the murderer. "I regard Sid as a partner. I have known him for a long time. He has always been an old-fashioned man. I won't comment on what happened, because it has nothing to do with me and him, he was just manipulated-that's all the problems. Sid won't kill Nancy, absolutely not. "
Besides Nancy's mother's books, there are many books about Sid. 1992 "The Life and Death of Sid Vicious" by Keith batson and alan parker; In 2003, Malcolm Bart's Sid Vicious: Rock Star; ; The latest is alan parker's To Be Alive, which was published on April 15 this year.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Sid's death. Over the years, people have been arguing about his behavior and love, murder and suicide. Sid is destined to "make trouble" for us all the time, past, present and future for a long time. ...
I suggest you watch a movie based on the above true story.
Chinese names: Sid and Nancy
English name: sid &；; Nancy
Alias: falling in love
Resource type: DVDRip
Date of issue:1August 29, 986
Film director: alex cox alex cox.
Film actor:
Andrew Schofield, Bishop of Gary Aldman Chloe Webb david heyman Debby
Region: UK
Language: English
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