Sid Vicious
Overview
 
Sid Vicious was an English musician best known as the bassist of the influential punk rock
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 group Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians...

. In 2006 he was inducted posthumously into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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 as a member of the Sex Pistols.
Sid Vicious was born John Simon Ritchie in Lewisham
Lewisham
Lewisham is a district in South London, England, located in the London Borough of Lewisham. It is situated south-east of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.-History:...

 South East London to John and Anne Ritchie (née McDonald). His mother dropped out of school early due to a lack of academic success and went on to join the RAF, where she met her husband-to-be, Ritchie's father.
Quotations

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.

Well, you know, like, I don't really give a fuck what the general public think.

Reported in Julien Temple, The Filth and the Fury: The Sex Pistols (2000), p. 104.

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.

The band broke up because I couldn't bear Johnny Rotten|Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.

On leaving the Sex Pistols; reported in Julien Temple, The Filth and the Fury: The Sex Pistols (2000), p. 207.

You just pick up 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.

We had a death pact. I have to keep my half of the bargain. Please bury me next to my baby in my leather jacket, jeans and motor cycle boots. Goodbye.

Reported in George Gimarc, Punk Diary: The Ultimate Trainspotter's Guide to Underground Rock, 1970-1982 (2005), p 183.

All I did was cash in on the fact that I'm good-looking and I have a good figure and girls like me.

Reported in Stephen Colegrave, Chris Sullivan, Punk: The Definitive Record of a Revolution (2005), p. 306.

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.

 
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