I like how this song gave Sid his surname - and that Mr. Barrett gave him his Christian one. The song is a melange of The Factory with oodles of SCUM manifesto appropriation.
@exobscura I heard differently. John Lydon had a pet hamster named Sid Vicious. Lydon knew John Ritchie and thought Ritchie's attempts to act tough reminded him of the hamster. So John Ritchie became Sid Vicious.
@exobscura I heard differently. John Lydon had a pet hamster named Sid Vicious. Lydon knew John Ritchie and thought Ritchie's attempts to act tough reminded him of the hamster. So John Ritchie became Sid Vicious.
Sadly, Ritchie was no intellectual heavyweight, had no ability to detect sarcasm, and took the moniker seriously.
Sadly, Ritchie was no intellectual heavyweight, had no ability to detect sarcasm, and took the moniker seriously.
I like how this song gave Sid his surname - and that Mr. Barrett gave him his Christian one. The song is a melange of The Factory with oodles of SCUM manifesto appropriation.
It's the seminal seventies archetype
@exobscura I heard differently. John Lydon had a pet hamster named Sid Vicious. Lydon knew John Ritchie and thought Ritchie's attempts to act tough reminded him of the hamster. So John Ritchie became Sid Vicious.
@exobscura I heard differently. John Lydon had a pet hamster named Sid Vicious. Lydon knew John Ritchie and thought Ritchie's attempts to act tough reminded him of the hamster. So John Ritchie became Sid Vicious.
Sadly, Ritchie was no intellectual heavyweight, had no ability to detect sarcasm, and took the moniker seriously.
Sadly, Ritchie was no intellectual heavyweight, had no ability to detect sarcasm, and took the moniker seriously.