Talk:Sid Vicious

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[edit] Deborah Spungen declines own request?

After Vicious' death, his mother phoned Deborah Spungen, Nancy's mother, to request that he be buried next to her, but Deborah Spungen declined. Vicious was then cremated, and his ashes were scattered on Nancy's grave. I don't know anyone here, so I'll leave it to someone else to fix, just wanted to point this out. --69.120.63.248 01:16, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

That is correct grammar describing Sid's mother phoning Spungen, who declined. If you wish, the second reference to Spungen could be deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.218.56.240 (talk) 21:16, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Racism

was sid racist?

Yes, of course.

No he wasn't, in an interview with him he said he got on really well wwith black people. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.21.61.25 (talk) 13:26, August 26, 2007 (UTC)

I can't begin to point out the fallacy in the above pronouncement. I think we need to parse the subject of Sid Vicious's possible racism a bit more. 140.247.251.193 (talk) 20:50, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Sid clearly was NOT rascist and you only need to compare the follwing remark from Obama to Sid's BETTER more concise remark to see that Sid was not only not rascist but spoke better than Obama... though he had never been to college much less to Harvard as Obama ...

<< "The choice in this election is not between regions or religions or genders. It's not about rich versus poor; young versus old; and it is not about black versus white. It's about the past versus the future." Barack Obama On Campaign trail 2008>>

<<“When there are no more categorizations; when there are no more "niggers", when there are no more "whites", when there's just "people", you know, when there's no more "punks",when there's no more "dirt", that is when everything is gonna be OK.” - Sid Vicious, c.1977 of Sex Pistols. (aka John Ritchie 1957-1979) source: IMDB list of quotes at this web site http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0895965/bio >>

/s willy the g man

[edit] Pyromaniac?

In the article there is an unattributed quote "After his death the school assembly held a minute silence for him and remembered his contributions to school life as being the reason why the school had the best trained fire drills in the country."

This must be a joke playing on the idea that while at school he would set fires and/or cause false fire alarms. This should be properly cited or removed. 70.74.160.191 17:34, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

can somebody post a different picture.....

[edit] Book

The title of John Lydon's book was Rotten not Vicious. Johnny Rotten = John Lydon. I changed it. Skin Crawl 21:17, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use criteria

The use of images not in compliance with our fair-use criteria or our policy on nonfree content is not appropriate, and the images have been removed. Please do not restore them. — Moe ε 09:17, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tidying

Vicious was deeply involved in the birth of British punk, but not punk per se. Made that change. Also tidied up grammar of paragraph about the hamster, as it wasn't clear whether Sid or the hamster was "slender and likeable".KD Tries Again 18:07, 21 June 2007 (UTC)KD

[edit] SID STUDIED ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY AT COLLEGE

Nobody has noted that sid studied art and photography at college. If YOU GO ON ONE OF THE WEBSITES AT THE BOTTOM IS HAS HIS PAINTINGS THERE. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.21.61.25 (talk) 13:28, August 26, 2007 (UTC)

maybe there should be a distinction as didn't he attend ? Hackney Technical College which many say is just a high school ... s/ willy the g man

[edit] A few mistakes made that I am going to clear up

First of all Sids mother was not a junkie until they returned to england from spain, the easiest way to get homes in england was to be a junkie, so his mother faked being a junkie unforetunately living around these people drew her nearer until she was a junkie

It is widely known by many people that sid vicious did not kill Sprungen it was infact the dealer who sold him and sprungen heroin as the dealer admitted it in a bar he produced bloody dollar bills to prove it

I have taken all my knowledge from the si vicious biography and pretty vacant history of punk —Preceding unsigned comment added by Monkeyboy1707 (talk • contribs) 11:21, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:27, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sid Vicious's Real Name

It wasn't Simon John Ritchie, it was John Simon Ritchie! That's why the Sex Pistols gave him a new nickname, because there would have been 2 John's in the band (John Lydon and John Ritchie) I don't know how to change items on Wikipedia, so I've left it as a post. Parkthecar (talk) 21:40, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Also, if you look at the wikipedia page for Johnny Rotten, it says "As a replacement, Lydon recommended his school friend John Simon Ritchie" 24.79.85.124 (talk) 00:59, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

I've fixed it Parkthecar (talk) 22:43, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sid's Poem "Nancy"

I think that the poem he wrote about Nancy in his suicide note should be included in this article. It's called "Nancy" "You were my little baby girl / I knew all your fears / such a joy to hold you in my arms / and kiss away your tears. / But now you're gone, there's only pain / and nothing I can do. / And I don't want to live this life, / If I can't live for you." [1] [2] Parkthecar (talk) 21:59, 4 June 2008 (UTC)