Sid Withers (1957may10-1979 February 2nd), alias John Simon Rich, was born in London, England, but it was not long before his father left his orphans and widows, so Sid lived with his mother Anne.

Chinese name: Sid Vicious.

Sidwell west

Alias: JohnSimonRitchie

Nationality: UK

Place of birth: London, England

Date of birth:1May 957 10.

Date of death:1February 2, 979

Occupation: Bass player of the famous punk band sexpistols in 1970s.

Agency: EMI, A & ampm, virgin.

Representative works: Myway

Main achievements: the invention of Pogo, which has been passed down to this day, has become the essence and aesthetic standard of punk spirit.

brief introduction

Name: Sidwell, formerly known as John Simon Rich.

Nationality: UK (London)

Date of birth:1May 957 10.

Occupation: Bass player of the famous punk band sexpistols in 1970s.

Hi! He is so handsome, isn't he?

Detailed introduction

Before dawn

Anne's mother was so poor that she had to take her children to Ibiza, a Spanish island in the Mediterranean, and live with her friends until 1965. It is not surprising that he grew up in different environments. Among his mother's friends, he first learned to swear loudly in Spanish. Annie often changes jobs. Her most regular job is selling marijuana. She was called "eccentric hippie" by JohnnyRotten.

When Sid was eight years old, his mother and son returned to London. In order to find a place to live for herself and her children, Anne listened to her friend and thought that she could be given a house to live in by pretending to take drugs. As a result, the fake scene came true. She was addicted to drugs, and more and more children were released from cross-country. But it was during this period that Anne remarried to an Oxford University graduate. This good father who regarded Sid as his own died the year he got married-if he had lived longer, he might have educated a different Sid, who knows?

When Sid was a teenager, Anne could no longer control him. He loves music, worships DavidBowie and T-Rex, imitates idols, wears exaggerated and feminine clothes, and acts more and more radical and eccentric. The first half of the name SidVicious comes from a friend JohnLydon's pet mouse (Sid doesn't like this name), and the second half comes from a song by LouReed. The two of them and a group of people call themselves "John" and often haunt a fashion clothing store in King's Road, London. The owner is malcolm mclaren, a fashion figure with a keen sense of smell. When McClaren invited john lydon to join his "Sex Pistol" band on 1975, Sid decided to form his own band-"The Flowers from ance". Although the band also produced stars like keresey Hyde in the later Pretender, the band itself never surfaced. Later, Sid also joined SiouxsieandtheBanshees as a drummer. When the "sex pistol" gradually attracted people's attention, he became the most enthusiastic follower of the "sex pistol".

That's enough. Although he did adjust the bass, for the real English punk in the1970s, the mind and body were more important than the musical skills. He is Sidwell, one of the musicians of ——sexpistols, the most important punk band in Britain, who raped all the existing rules with a blasphemous courage. Sid joined, and he was accepted because of his charming personality and beautiful appearance. In fact, Sid once asked Ramie Kelmiste of motorhead how to play bass, but according to Ramie Kelmiste, Sid is a hopeless student.

At the end of 1960s, four British youths-john lydon, steve jones, Paul Cook and Glen matlock formed the most influential punk band in history: Sex Pistol! In the 1970s, which coincided with the British economic storm and unemployment frenzy, although the "sex pistol" only existed for just two years, it swept across Britain like an avalanche tornado and even affected the whole world. So far, whenever punk music/culture is mentioned, it is immediately associated with "sex pistols". Punk music is under the banner of rebellion and subversion, and some people regard it as a scourge; Others (especially blue-collar workers and teenagers) regard it as standard. The sex pistol is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people because it severely criticized the authorities and the bourgeoisie from the perspective of the British lower class; Coupled with the primitive and rude performance style with vitality and even violent tendency, as well as the content of advocating nihilism and praising anarchy and chaos, although it was banned at that time, it still formed an irresistible revolutionary trend underground.

Today, many years later, the greatest contribution of "sex pistol" is to carry forward and inherit the criticism, originality and independence of rock music, create punk culture with rebellious spirit, and create a large number of underground non-mainstream orchestras with independent spirit in later generations.

1977 65438+ February, new york, midnight on a Sunday. The TV is showing an interview with Sidwell West. The name of the program is "What's wrong with our city?" . Sid's single "My Way" was used as the prologue. The host was amused by this song, and Sid laughed the most-"It's fucking nice, isn't it?" . The format of the program is that the audience calls in to ask questions and our punk star answers them. Rinrin's phone keeps ringing. When the first call came in, the man who claimed to be a university professor said, "In the 1960s, those rock stars all looked deformed; In the 1970s, these people were like monsters. Why? " Sid rudely interrupted him. "Hang up and tell yourself, you bitch." -This is the answer.

The next call was from a person with a low education. As soon as I came up, I shouted at the host: "Why do you want to do such a program? What? " Sid replied first, "Tell yourself, pervert!" " Sid burped loudly, the decibel was higher than that of Concorde, and then he leaned back, rubbed his hair with his hand and made a face at the camera-Sid finally relaxed now (before the show started, the TV people put a bunch of tacky fake flowers in front of Sid, and Sid tried to pick them off. The staff said angrily, "Is it because they did it? Really? " As a result, Sid soaked them in a pitcher.

This situation lasted 1 hour, and the audience asked insulting or ridiculous questions, and Sid answered them one by one.

Sid's fame lies not in himself, but in everything he and his girlfriend Nancy have. Many years ago in January, he went to prison for this.

At the beginning of 1977, Johnny thunders, the former "New York Dolls", took his band to London for a "gold rush" and brought a young "skinny"-Nancy Auraspungen. Nancy was born in Philadelphia on February 27th, 1958. She was born with jaundice and has been in trouble ever since. Because I love crying too much, I took sedatives for the first time when I was three months old. I first saw a psychiatrist at the age of 4; She first took drugs at the age of 13, and was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 15.

Nancy came to London for only one purpose, that is, to sleep with a sex pistol. First of all, she aimed at Johnny Norton, but he refused; Then the guitarist steve jones was quickly dumped; Sid is her third choice. Before long, Nancy and her drugs fascinated Sid, and his teammates could do nothing about him. According to Sid's teammates, Nancy was like Sid's old mother when Sid and Nancy were dating. During their "disaster" tour in the United States, Sid hit an audience on the head with a bass; In Dallas, he scratched "GimmeAFix" on his chest (look at me) and cut himself badly. Blood flowed from his face and chest to his black jeans. He opened the bandage on his arm and threw it at the audience, making the original wound deeper and smiling with satisfaction. On the way to San Francisco, a truck driver put a lit cigarette butt in his hand and challenged him. Sid cut his hand with a knife and continued to eat lunch calmly.

When I was with Nancy, Sid's role swung back and forth between a gentleman and a beast. When Nancy was ill, he fed her like a nanny and reported her health to her mother every day. Nancy's mother recalled that Sid was polite and shy when he called. When they visited the Spengans in Philadelphia, Sid was easy-going and full of childlike innocence. But at other times, Sid would insult and beat Nancy, and Nancy admitted to her mother that Sid had caused her harm.

After the band broke up, at the end of 1978, the relationship between the lovers who were still in love with each other became more and more unstable and dangerous. 1978 10 At the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan, new york, Sid was accused of murdering his girlfriend and was imprisoned. Female fans put on new T-shirts, which read "I am alive, she is dead, I am yours".

But Sid's friends speculated that there was something else going on in this famous murder. Maybe a drug dealer murdered Nancy for money-two drug dealers entered their room that night. Nancy tried to kill herself many times. It is likely that she provoked Sid to kill her, so as to end her pain and prove his love for her.

1February 2, 979, Sid, 2 1 year-old, died of drug overdose. His mother Anne found a note in his passport: "We have death pact." . I must keep my promise. Please bury me next to the person I love, along with my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye! "

Heartbroken Anne frantically called Nancy's mother and asked her if she could bury her son and daughter together, but she was rejected. But this is Sid's last wish. So, one night a few days after his cremation, the sad mother quietly walked into the kingdavidjewishcemetery Cemetery in Pennsylvania and scattered her son's ashes around Nancy's grave.

Sid wrote in a poem entitled Nancy:

"My little girl,

All your fears can't escape my eyes,

Holding you in my arms brings great happiness,

I kissed your tears dry,

But now that your people are gone,

Except pain, there is only endless emptiness.

If I can't live for you,

Being born on me is meaningless. "

English version:

Youweremylittlebabygirl

I know your ears.

Suchjoytoholdyouinmyarms

Kiss away your tears

But now you're married

Only pain and nothingness

I don't want to live.

Live for you.

Especially the last two sentences, this is one of the few classic words that Sid Weiss has handed down so far.

After Sid's death, Nancy's mother wrote in her book I don't want to live like this: "The nightmare (Sid's death) is finally over, and we will move to another place-Nancy has never lived in a room or sat in a chair there. At that time, I would really cry for my baby daughter. Her father and I are going to set up a fund for children who take drugs, which is too late for Nancy, but it can give other similar children and their parents a hope. " She also believes that Sid is not the murderer. "I regard Sid as a partner. I have known him for a long time. He has always been an old-fashioned man. I won't comment on what happened, because it has nothing to do with me and him, he was just manipulated-that's all the problems. Sid won't kill Nancy, absolutely not. "

Sid has become the essence and aesthetic standard of punk spirit today-anarchism, extreme violence, questioning everything, hating society, drugs and sex, dangerous romance and self-destructive art.

Sid's self-mutilation, debauchery and even his final death are regarded by many fans as the ultimate embodiment of punk spirit. But he is just a victim of the times. Perhaps this farewell game has no glory, and it only brings us despair and harm.