Sid Vicious
Sid Vicious was born in Lewisham, England, United Kingdom on May 10th, 1957 and is the Rock Singer. At the age of 21, Sid Vicious biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Sid Vicious (born John Simon Ritchie, 10 May 1957 – 2 February 1979) was an English bassist and singer.
He rose to prominence as a member of the punk rock band The Sex Pistols, swapping Glen Matlock, who had fallen out of favour with the rest of the group. Vicious was hospitalized with hepatitis while recording Sex Pistols' only studio album, Never Mind the Bollocks. Here's the Sex Pistols' No. 1 - "Bodies" is only partially featured on one song.
Vicious later appeared on the soundtrack to The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, a largely fictionalized documentary about the Sex Pistols, performed three songs.
Vicious and the Sex Pistols were gaining attention, Vicious and Nancy Spence became a couple who culminated in Spence's death from a visible stab wound while staying in Hotel Chelsea in New York City with Vicious.
Vicious was released on bail after being arrested again for assaulting Todd Smith, the brother of Patti Smith, in a nightclub, and receiving drug therapy on Rikers Island, according to investigators.
He died in 1979 after overdosing on opium. The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle soundtrack was released less than four weeks after Vicious's death.
Sid Sings was released as a collection of live recordings from his brief solo career on December 15, 1979.
In the 1986 biopic Sid and Nancy, Gary Oldman played Vicious.
Early life
John Simon Ritchie was born in Lewisham, England, on May 10th, 1957, with John and Anne Ritchie nee McDonald (1933-1996). Anne had dropped out of school and joined the British Army, where she met Ritchie's father, a Buckingham Palace guard, and a semi-professional trombone player on the London jazz scene. Immediately after Ritchie's birth, the boy and his mother travelled to Ibiza, where they expected to be joined by his father, but they didn't appear and offered no financial assistance—Anne reportedly sold marijuana to get by. Anne returned to England and settled in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, where she enrolled her son John in Sandown Court School (now The Skinners' Kent Academy).
Anne Beverley married Christopher Beverley, a six-month-old boy who died as a result of kidney disease in 1965. Anne and John lived in Bristol and Clevedon, Somerset, where John attended Clevedon College. The pair moved to Stoke Newington, east London, where John attended Clissold Park School (now Stoke Newington School). He began using the name 'John Beverley' at this time.
Anne's life was dominated by heroin and opiates by 1973, to the point where she was unaware that her son was attending Westminster Kingsway College, now known as Kingsway College of Further Education, and as a community and vocational school for students with difficulties. Although at Kingsway, John implied that he was considering suicide, despite a counsellor's explanation that he was torturing and killing cats. Anne pushed John out of his house when he was 16 years old.
Beverley met John Lydon, a fellow Kingsway student who introduced him to his colleagues John Grey and John Wardle in 1973. The four four brothers, who became popular locally, 'The Four Johns,' departed from school and began squatting in a variety of dismal locations. After Beverley was bitten by Lydon's hamster Sid (named after Syd Barrett), three of the four Johns will develop nicknames: Lydon nicknamed Beverley "Sid Vicious" after they were bitten by Beverley's hamster Sid (named after Syd Barrett). And Wardle Jah Wobble, Lydon's bandmate, gave him the name Johnny Rotten, and Sid nicknamed him Wardle Jah Wobble.
The four young men began hanging around Chelsea's Road, London, which at the time was the 'Swinging London's epicenter, as music and fashion were burgeoning. Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's clothing store, SEX, was a favorite spot. Vicious met American expat Chrissie Hynde before forming the Pretenders, who reportedly attempted (and failed) to convince Vicious to join her in a sham marriage in order to obtain a work permit. According to Lydon, he and Vicious took up busking, with Lydon performing and occasionally playing the violin, and Vicious playing a tambourine or an acoustic guitar. Alice Cooper covers, and people gave them money to stop.
Lydon joined Jones, Glen Matlock, and Paul Cook in the founding of the Sex Pistols, a McLaren-led band, in 1975. VIcious was caught the band attacking their audience at the Nashville Rooms in Kensington. Vicious began his musical career shortly.