Sid Vicious - Lydon's Warning For Wannabes

[StevieB]

Tragic punk icon SID VICIOUS would still be alive and well today if he had met rocker LOU REED - because he would have realised that the drug lifestyle the VELVET UNDERGROUND star sang about wasn't that glamorous, according to SEX PISTOLS bandmate JOHN LYDON.
Bass player Vicious died from a drug overdose at New York's Chelsea Hotel in 1979 while awaiting trial for the murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen and Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, is adamant Vicious was destroyed by his lust for fame.
The Pretty Vacant singer reveals his tragic former bandmate was obsessed with the seedy world Lou Reed sang about.
Lydon says, "He (Vicious) was all: 'Drugs yeah, it's all about drugs' - just because he had a Lou Reed record and he believed in the druggy image Lou gave off.
"Sid's downfall was that he didn't get a chance to meet Lou Reed before he knew what he was doing. He would never have messed with heroin if had he seen what a vacuous fat slob Lou Reed really is."

source: http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/lydons-warning-for-wannabes_1122476

[RIC]

After reading this, the name "Vicious" now makes more sense to me.

[Adam Rebelius]

Yeah, there may be some truth to that, but If Johnny Rotten hadn't hooked him up with Nancy Spungen, I don't think he would've been so eager to try it. It's a well known fact that Sid was a follower of fashion, and was VERY suggestable. Maybe Sid was a big Lou Reed fan, and tried heroine because of him, but I still believe it was Nancy, who was an addict herself, that REALLY encouraged him.

[opfiend]

Also, if Sid wasn't a weak minded person this wouldn't have happened.

[Network23Photography]

But if he hadn't been a heroin junkie and with Nancy, he would be no one other than a musician or former musician not worth mentioning, the allure of Sid is a punk rock story.

http://www.mijj.info/misc/sidVicious.jpg

[rocketsandguns]

UH DUH. Heroin was not a song glorifying the use of heroin.

[mcghie]

its all ifs and buts if redglare hadn't killed spurgeon sid might have lived a couple more years

[sr113]

If Sid hadn't been retarded, he'd still be alive? That is news!

[RIC]

UH DUH. Heroin was not a song glorifying the use of heroin.

Of course not, it speaks of big clipper ships and darkened seas going from this land here to that on a sailor’s suit and cap and made LOLigan77 want to join the navy. And people feeling like "jesus son", that´s also healthy.