still doing it his way

Until the Sex Pistols, the UK was a nicely sorted society.

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But in a short 30 month career producing just one studio album, Sid Vicious and the Sex Pistols changed a lot.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Vicious#

Born in England a troubled kid who “sang” (if you can call it that) and played bass, Sid joined the Sex Pistols in 1977. 

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Two years later he was gone.

In October 1978 Sid and his Philadelphia girlfriend Nancy Spungen holed up in the Chelsea Hotel doing drugs.

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After getting high together, he stabbed her to death under the hotel bathroom vanity. 

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Sid slit his own wrist with a broken lightbulb, went to Bellevue and then dried out in forced rehab on Rikers Island.

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On the same day he was released on bail-- clean after 52 days of cold turkey--he shot up heroin supplied by his own Mother and died.

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Just before her death in 1996, Sid’s Mother confessed that she had deliberately injected her son with a lethal dose because she wanted to spare him from going to prison.

Now Acura has licensed one of Sid’s recordings for a television ad, “My Way” the Frank Sinatra standard.

John Simon Ritchie--his birth name--was just 21 years old when he died, but he sure did it his way. 

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Brings back memories.

Drive safe this weekend!