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Sex Pistols performing live onstage
at Baton Rouge's
Kingfisher Club,
Louisiana, USA.
Photograph: Richard E. Aaron
Redferns/Getty
Sid Vicious was born on 10 May 1957.
Bass guitarist for the Sex Pistols,
he charted with his notorious solo version
of My Way.
He died on 2 February 1979 from a heroin overdose
while on bail for the murder
of his girfriend Nancy Spungen.
Sid Vicious - a picture from the past
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10 May 2014
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December 21 1977,
and le tout punk rock are out in force
for
the opening night of the Roxy in Covent Garden,
a tiny club leased for three
months
by Andy Czezowski, Generation X's manager.
Looking dapper
at the centre of Erica Echenberg's photograph
is John Lydon,
already a star of the scene with the Sex Pistols;
on the right is Mark P,
the young editor of the punk fanzine Sniffin' Glue.
On
the left is Brian James,
songwriter and guitarist of the Damned,
NME journalist
Nick Kent
and James's then-girlfriend Julie Nylon.
"Brian dumped her that night,"
recalls Echenberg, "and started up with me.
She
stubbed a cigarette out in my face.
They were lovely people, you know."
Snapshot: Opening night at the Roxy club
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Film & Music
p. 4 7 July 2006
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Johnny Rotten and Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols
at the 100 Club, London, 1976
Photograph: Ray Stevenson
Rex Shutterstock
Spitting images:
the man who captured anarchy by accident – in
pictures
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Wednesday 11
November 2015 07.00 GMT
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Late 1975.
Portrait of Johnny Rotten
by Peter Christopherson
Peter Christopherson,
whose workspace was next
to the Sex Pistols’ rehearsal space,
was a member of the Hipgnosis design collective,
and went on to become a member of industrial bands
Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV and Coil
Prettily vacant: the art of the Sex Pistols – in pictures
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Monday 7 November 2016 07.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/nov/07/
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John Lydon
post-punk band > Public Image Ltd 1978-2020s
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Malcolm
Robert Andrew McLaren 1946-2010
Sex Pistols manager
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As Johnny Rotten in 1976,
when he told Jonh Ingham of Sounds:
‘I hate shit.
I hate hippies and what they stand for.
I hate
long hair. I hate pub bands.
I want to change it
so there are rock bands like us.’
Photograph: Ray Stevenson
Rex/Shutterstock
John Lydon at 60 – a life in pictures
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Friday 29 January 2016 14.00 GMT
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The Sex Pistols
Sid Vicious,
Steve Jones,
Johnny Rotten and Paul Cook
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Sex_Pistols
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Sid Vicious 1957-1979
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1979
Sid
Vicious dies of drug overdose
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http://www.theguardian.com/culture/1979/feb/03/
artsfeatures
12 October 1978
Sex Pistol Vicious on murder
charge
Punk Rocker
Sid Vicious
arrested
on suspicion of murder
after the body of his girlfriend
Nancy Spungen was found
in their New York hotel
room
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/12/
newsid_2543000/2543439.stm
Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
1889 Indecent Advertisement Act > 1977
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The Sex pistols Interview December 1, 1976
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The Sex pistols
John
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Revealed:
how the Sex Pistols shook Ireland
Wednesday 31 December 2008
The Guardian
Henry McDonald, Ireland correspondent
This article was first published on guardian.co.uk
at 00.01 GMT
on Wednesday 31
December 2008.
It appeared in the Guardian
on Wednesday 31 December 2008
on p9 of the UK news
section.
It was last updated at 00.03 GMT
on Wednesday 31 December 2008.
They raged against the Queen and the "fascist regime", and
noisily agitated for anarchy in the UK. But in the late 1970s the Sex Pistols
were considered just as much of a threat to Ireland and its traditional Catholic
moral values, it emerged yesterday, as state papers revealed the extent of
official concern about the prime instigators of the punk revolution.
The Sex Pistols were targeted in a 1978 Irish police investigation aimed at
protecting the country's morals, the papers revealed.
At a time when the IRA was intensifying its campaign of bombings and
assassinations the Garda Síochána turned its attention towards Johnny Rotten,
Sid Vicious, Steve Jones and Paul Cook and the sale of their first album Never
Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols. The papers include a garda memo on
the force's concerns about the title of the band's LP and whether it breached
Ireland's once rigid censorship laws.
"The title on the sleeve ... would indicate that the contents of the record is
obscene," a garda inspector wrote.
The album was referred to Ireland's censorship board. The Irish deputy assistant
chief state solicitor suggested the record sleeve might contravene the Indecent
Advertisements Act. "However, the penalty on conviction cannot exceed IR£2 and
in all circumstances you may feel that prosecution is not called for," the law
officer advised the garda.
The Irish state did not carry out its threat to fine record stores displaying
the album. Soon after, Virgin Records successfully defended itself against
British obscenity charges relating to the LP at Nottingham magistrates court.
Revealed: how the Sex
Pistols shook Ireland,
G,
31.12.2008,
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/dec/31/
sex-pistols-ireland-police-investigation
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