“You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music.”
Reported in Jon Savage, England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond (2001), p. 220.
Sid Vicious [sɪd ˈvɪʃəs], de son vrai nom John Simon Ritchie, né le 10 mai 1957 à Lewisham et mort le 2 février 1979 à New York, est un chanteur britannique, second bassiste éphémère des Sex Pistols.
Il est devenu une icône du mouvement punk. Il est retrouvé mort d'une overdose d'héroïne dans son hôtel de Greenwich Village à New York à l'âge de 21 ans.
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“You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music.”
Reported in Jon Savage, England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond (2001), p. 220.
Reported in Stephen Colegrave, Chris Sullivan, Punk: The Definitive Record of a Revolution (2005), p. 306.
“I'm not vicious really. I consider myself kind-hearted. I love my mum.”
Daily Mirror, June 11, 1977, as reported in Fred Vermorel, Judy Vermorel, Sex Pistols: The Inside Story (1987), p. 169.
“I'm not chic, I could never be chic. I was in it from its inception.”
Reported in Stephen Colegrave, Chris Sullivan, Punk: The Definitive Record of a Revolution (2005), p. 306.
Reported in George Gimarc, Punk Diary: The Ultimate Trainspotter's Guide to Underground Rock, 1970-1982 (2005), p 183.
“I'll probably die by the time I reach 25. But I'll have lived the way I wanted to.”
Daily Mirror, June 11, 1977, as reported in Fred Vermorel, Judy Vermorel, Sex Pistols: The Inside Story (1987), p. 169.
“American audiences are just the same as anybody else. Except a bit more boring.”
Reported in Julien Temple, The Filth and the Fury: The Sex Pistols (2000), p. 207.
On leaving the Sex Pistols; reported in Julien Temple, The Filth and the Fury: The Sex Pistols (2000), p. 207.