About Sid Vicious
Simon John Ritchie, better known by his stage name Sid Vicious, was an English musician, best known as the second bassist for the punk rock band Sex Pistols. After his death in 1979 at the age of 21, he remained an icon of the punk subculture; one of his friends noted that he embodied "everything in punk that was dark, decadent and nihilistic." On 20 September 1976, Vicious appeared with Siouxsie and the Banshees, playing drums only at their first set at the 100 Club Punk Special in London's Oxford Street, a two-day festival co-founded by McLaren. Although the songs they wrote would later be performed by other bands, the Flowers of Romance did not perform live, or record any music. Vicious jammed a broken bottle into the face of BBC recording engineer George Nicholson.
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