John Simmond Ritchie or sid vicious as he was later named by john lydon was born on the 10th of may 1957 in tunbridge wells. he was very close to his mother. Sid replaced Glen Matlock on the Sex Pistols us tour. Glen had taught sid to play base and was really pissed off. He celebrated his rise to fame by bad mouthing Matlock and getting addicted to heroin. He hardly played the right bass parts on stage because he was so toked up. He murdered girlfriend Nancy Spungeon in her new york appartment he said on arrest 'i did it cos i'm a dirty dog'(he was wrecked). He later killed himself. It later turns out that he didn't kill nancy she stabed herself in a suicide pact with Vicious in which he failed.
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