People were coming and going at all hours of the night. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. There’s no way to have a crystal clear understanding of exactly what happened that night in 1979, but here’s everything we know. It was bad news. "And he did, without a second thought," recalled the witness. Decades later John Lydon finally tipped his hat to Jagger when he said, “Mick Jagger got in there and brought lawyers into it on Sid’s behalf…He never used it to advance himself publicity-wise.”. In all likelihood, a gacked-out Vicious was the person who put an end to his girlfriend’s life, but there are some in the punk community who believe that Vicious was set up and that someone else was brandishing the knife. In Vicious she found a naturally shy soul, one enduring of her hard edges, as well as the irresistible pull of a star on the rise. Rare Photos For The Pop Culture Buff In Your Life. Sid Vicious is arrested as a suspect to help the police on the investigation of Nancy Spungeon’s murder. Along with getting him gigs in her old Lower East Side haunts, she served as Vicious' spokesperson when he was too stoned to communicate in the occasional media appearance. Fred and Joanne Rogers shared a long and loving relationship, which she continues to honor by carrying on his legacy after his 2003 death. He’s obsessed with the ways in which singular, transgressive acts have shaped the broader strokes of history, and he believes in alternate dimensions, which means that he’s great at a dinner party. ( Log Out /  Shortly afterward, Spungen arrived in London. Even though Sid was losing it while he was in the Sex Pistols he could at least be controlled by the group’s management, but left to their own devices the two were heading down a road towards mutual destruction. On December 9, 1978, Vicious attacked Patti Smith’s brother Todd at a concert in New York. That’s pure Jacob, baby. Jacob Shelton is a Los Angeles based writer. After Vicious died, the NYPD dropped their investigation into Spungen’s death. Spungen's life and death have been the subject of controversy among music historians and fans of the Sex Pistols. The group managed to have Spungen banned from their U.S. tour in January 1978, and Vicious responded by behaving erratically, at one point smashing an audience member over the head with his bass in Dallas. 100 of Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel. Their mutual addictions intertwined, they fueled one another and drove each other to madness. People were coming and going at all hours of the night. Waking up on October 12, 1978, Sid rolled over and found that Nancy had bled out from a stab wound to the abdomen. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Ultimately, Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen found their common ground in the combustible arena of punk rock until driving over the edge together, like a musical Bonnie and Clyde, joined in death as they were over the final months of their lives. Sid was so strung out from the night’s drugs binge that he could not recall what exactly happened and did not know who murdered … The world watched as the "Rehab" singer lost control of her life, ending in her untimely passing at age 27.

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