i always miss the sid and nancy spoof on the simpsons and i can't seem to find it on youtube. anyone have any links?
i always miss the sid and nancy spoof on the simpsons and i can't seem to find it on youtube. anyone have any links?
Ditto. Nancy had serious mental issues since she was a kid, i remember reading that she used to curse the hell out of her parents when she was only 2!!!. i think that she only found peace in death.
i also like the fact that her mother had her hair dyed back to her natural colour before she was buried.
Maybe they should have kept the pheno drops out of the kid.
I know somebody else who got the pheno drops and he is one of the most substance addicted f-offs I have ever met.
Doctors knew so much less back then.
You're right, they should not have medicated her, but they were following a doctor's advise. Now that doctor should have known better, no matter what the times and lack of real knowledge about those things were. You do not drug children, because narcotics are addictive and faciliate a propensity toward later drug abuse. Seems simple, doesn't it?
Courtney and Nancy really did have a lot in common!
Really?
I read it as a teen, and re-read it a few times as an adult and mother, and I don't see it that way at all. I see it as parents reacting to the doctors they trusted so implicitly that they were just so helpless. Sometimes, there are kids that are just "not right" and without proper treatment, they're destined to be that way. That was especially true when Nancy was growing up in the 60's and 70's. As a mom now, I can feel Debra's helplessness. Why ruin the other 2 siblings lives? What else could they have done? You said you read it as an adult and parent, what would you have done different when all the doctors said she was fine?
I didn't look through every page so forgive me if it's already been posted. But I didn't see either of them in the Find a Death directory, and was kinda bummed; I've only recently really discovered the Sex Pistols and would like to learn a bit more about their deaths....anyone? Pics are welcome!
Bah bump
Ummm...there is a thread on this with alot of info and a few arguments...I just bumped it up, enjoy
Sid Vicious = Simon Ritchie? Oh, yeah there's lots. Search Nancy Spungen, Sid Vicious, they're all there.
Hey Ends! Exhausted, you have no idea! Just a busy time of year, from politics to weddings, and a ton of deadlines to meet .
Thanks! I read through all these posts and last night ordered the book by Nancy's mom; I think my husband is a little freaked that I"ve become so fascinated with it, but oh well. I can't wait to get the book and read it, after that I plan to get one about Sid.
Can't find death photo of Sid...anyone else have one they can share?
BTW I'm new here, so hello everyone!
Hey Mommica, welcome
Nancy's mom's book is a good one (even if I view it slightly different than before, which I do, and stand by that)
There are some good Sid books out there, also. Alan Parker has done several, tho it does seem he may have been overly-influenced by Sid's mom (she wrote a "Sid Vicious family album" way back when, a cash-in if there ever was one).
Have fun, it's a great story and addicting (no pun intended )
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I'm wondering how I'll view the book since this will be the first time I"ve read it AND I'm a mother of 2. Although from everything I've been able to get my paws on already, I can see that she was just a deeply disturbed girl. The whole thing sounds so incredibly sad to me. (Off subject, but I also ordered a book about Elizabeth of Bathory that I can't WAIT to dive into either!)
Does anybody else think that Nancy looked like bernadette Peters in that pic of her & Sid?
One day she made Sid so mad that he stabbed her to death with a very big knife. Everybody that knew Nancy had had it with her crap.
Yeah you can. But Sid was more naive than those guys when he meet Nancy. He was so in love with her she could have made him do anything. Unfortunately his first love was fatal.
Didn't a young Courtney Love also make an appearance (secondarily) in the film Sid and Nancy? The dude that played Malcolm was always my favorite...very pervy...
Yeah she did. Apparently she really wanted to play Nancy but didnt get the role. Awesome film. All the casting was really well done. They should make more good rock movie's like that one. There is some really good doco's about the Pistols and sid as well
when people mention the version of MY WAY played at the end of Goodfellas no one ever believes me when I tell them that its Sid singing... i do not know why
the other day I was eating with friends at a diner down the street from the Chelsea and some teeny tweens were across from us and shouting that they were staying in the infamous Room 100 at the Chelsea. (where the Sid and Nancy episode took place)
They were so annoying that I had to be a brat and burst their bubble and inform them that Room 100 is and has been long gone for many many years now....
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Nancy was such a whore...but I dig her.
i think it is mentioned in one of the posts on this thread--but before Sid Nancy was a groupie of sorts for the New York Dolls--and worked as a prostitute. i do not know how or what prompted her move to England---but I guess when the Dolls broke up that is when she wound up in England and then--well so forth and so on....
I just think Nancy was a troubled soul, and a brat by nature--hence her screaming demanding nature and clearly her family did not take proper steps to help her---or were not guided in what should have been the proper steps to help Nancy and thus the downward spiral began.
Nancy went to England with one goal in mind. To bed a Sex Pistol. She tried it on with Johnny but he sent her packing because he always said he knew she was trouble right from the word go. So she moved on to poor Sid who became infatuated by her.
According to her Mom's book, it was because the "New York Scene is Dead" or something like that. I'm guessing it was more because NY became aware of how much trouble she was, and the groupie scene was awesome in England, so she flew to England, and when she got there, she realized the SPs were the biggest things going, so she went after a SP.
She first went after Johnny Rotten, who wanted nothing to do with her, and quickly moved on to Sid, who did.
i have to read her book--i always mean to i just never do---
and then there is always the Rockets Redglare take on the situation...
Actually, if you read her mother's book , or anything at all regarding her early life, her parents did EVERYTHING THEY COULD to help her. There was NO helping her. There weren't the resources there are today. There was no guidance, they kept being told THEY were doing something wrong. Nancy was also diagnosed as a schizophrenic, something the parents didn't find out until after she died. If they had known, they may have had more options.
I read it as a teen, mostly because of the "Sid & Nancy" factor. Then I found it in my dad's attic, and read it as an adult (and also a mother) and took a totally different perspective on it. The hell her family went through was just awful, and worse than that was that NOBODY would help her parents. Everyone kept telling her parents it was THEM.
i think in the time Nancy grew up the resources just did not exist. i have an uncle who would have been a bit older than nancy and he had many issues--different than nancy but needing the same level of help--and my grandmother looked and looked and looked---but on a very limited budget and virtually no resources she was never able to get very far. and like nancy's family she was told by several it was her/them and it clearly was not. thank goodness times have changed.
Some say he killed her.... and don't get me wrong, there were certainly enough people she annoyed enough to want to bash her head in, but that's what makes me believe it was Sid. One stab wound. That's it. That's what killed her. I think if it were someone like Redglare that wanted to kill her, or anyone that wanted to kill her, you would've seen a RAGE scene. All poor, pitiful Sid could muster up (and yes, I believe he stabbed her, probably at her goading) was one stab wound.
My mom was bi-polar. There was alot of things I think that could've helped her if she had been diagnosed earlier. As it was, she was diagnosed a year before she died. NOW I get it. THEN I didn't. According to everyone on my mom's side of the family, she was just a "bad seed".
true rockets probably--if he or anyone would have done it other than sid---would have probably gotten so ticked off at something she said or did and then-would fly off the handle.
i know it was and has been a theory that rockets killed nancy and that is why he made sure the more pure heroin got to sid the night sid died--- etc etc. but..... like u said--one stab wound---thats what also leads me to believe it was sid as well.
According to something I saw somewhere, a guy named Peter gave him the heroin. The theory is that he gave it to his mom to ration off, and, well, there's a couple of theories -- one is that he found it, and took it all, and the other is that his mother shot him up with a lethal dose (which she supposedly confessed to on her deathbed) because she knew he'd be better off dead than dealing with the trial that he'd likely go to jail for life for.
i have also heard rockets was there when whomever got the heroin for sid that night and he basically looked over whomever's shoulder to make sure it was more pure....
i think that is one of the tons of stories circulating about that night
unless there is more to the story and there are other reasons someone would want sid dead
no not really i just watch law and order too much
i do believe he loved her---i do not know why---i just remember the scene in sid and nancy when they were in bed in the chelsea--nancy was even wearing flannel and they talk about how they haven't been intimate in a long while and they just kiss and go to sleep---mainly due to being so high---but still it was---strange but oddly sweet
rockets was just special himself. he was also an associate of Jean Michele Basquiat also--someone with a substance problem
While I think alot of that movie was sort of baloney, I do believe the "being so high" thing....you can totally see it in this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGKP2l2W5xI
that was an interesting clip lol