Nickname:	Sidney
Known for:	Goodfellas, Sid and Nancy, The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
Birth name:	John Simon Ritchie
Birthday:	10 May 1957, London, England, UK
Height:	6' 2" (1.88 m)

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Free Image Hosting - Upload your favorite celebrity pictures. Actor Gary Oldman is sad to hear New York's fabled Chelsea Hotel is closing, even though his experiences there were far from pleasant.



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A collection of Sid Vicious' newly-discovered artwork is set to fetch $6,400 at auction.



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AP - New York City's Hotel Chelsea, the bohemian landmark where poet Dylan Thomas collapsed in a coma before dying in 1953 and where the girlfriend of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious was fatally stabbed in 1978, is up for sale, its owners announced Tuesday.
Punk historian ALAN G. PARKER feared he’d upset the ghost of SID VICIOUS when he started researching his new documentary WHO KILLED NANCY? - becau se the ex-SEX PISTOLS star walked right through him.Parker visited the Bank Street home in New York where the tragic rock i con suffered a heroin overdose and died in
John Lydon "never liked" the Sex Pistols' name.

The punk legend says his former group - also comprising Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock, who was later replaced by Sid Vicious - tried out several different monikers before making their final decision, but he was always unhappy with their "twee" title.
AFP - Punk legend and ex-Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren had a showy send-off Thursday, with a spray-painted coffin, "too fast to live too young to die" and Sid Vicious vocals marking his funeral.
Hell raising Sex Pistols star Sid Vicious has been voted the most controversial rocker of all time.


Hell raising Sex Pistols star Sid Vicious has been voted the most controversial rocker of all time.


The man who sold SID VICIOUS the heroin that killed him feels "no guilt" 30 years after the hellraising rocker overdosed.Vicious - real name John Ritchie - died in a New York apartment on 2 February 1979, just a day after he was released on bail after being charged with the murder of his girlfriend
Moby wanted to be a scientist when he was a child. The "Play" hitmaker considered several career paths when he was growing up, before settling on the music business after being inspired by punk band the Sex Pistols.

He said: "Up until I was 13 I wanted to be a scientist. Any type of scientist would have been good. After 13, I really wanted to be a guitar player. I saw a Sid Vicious video and it scared me so much I decided to form a punk rock band."
AP - CANNES, France (AP) — Most documentaries stick with interviews of living people. But since this one's about New York's Chelsea Hotel and its rock 'n' roll aura, it seems natural that the ghosts of Janis Joplin and Sid Vicious turn up.
Writer Alan Parker has been recruited to make a new movie about notorious late Sex Pistols star Sid Vicious. The 42-year-old has written three books on the life of the punk legend - real name John Simon Ritchie - and has now been approached by Ipso Facto films to direct a docu-drama about the bassist.


JOHN LYDON has warned PETE DOHERTY against the dangers of his rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle again, insisting part of the problem is that the BABYSHAMBLES frontman is now better known for drug-taking than he is for his music.The Sex Pistols singer lost his bandmate Sid Vicious to a heroin overdose in 1979 and worries Doherty,
Rocker Johnny Rotten has likened troubled stars Pete Doherty and Amy Winehouse to his ex-bandmate Sid Vicious. The Sex Pistols frontman believes Winehouse and Doherty are no longer enjoying making music


"We are not going to end up like them (Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen). We're in love and have everything to live for." Troubled soul star Amy Winehouse is adamant she and husband Blake Fielder-Civil will not meet the same tragic end as the Sex Pistol's frontman and his girlfriend, who were both heroin addicts. Vicious died aged 21 in 1979.


Former hellraiser JOHN LYDON has begged his rock colleagues to stop glamorising drugs, recalling how they destroyed his SEX PISTOLS bandmate SID VICIOUS in 1979.Lydon - better known as Johnny Rotten - is saddened music stars continue to advocate illegal substances nearly 30 years after Vicious died of an overdose aged just 21.He says, "For
SID VICIOUS, MARVIN GAYE and cult writer HUNTER S THOMPSON’s final hours are to be scrutinised in a macabre new US TV series.America’s Biography Channel will debut THE FINAL 24 series, beginning this week (18JAN07).The first celebrity featured is SEX PISTOLS star Vicious.Movie & Entertainment News provided by World Entertainment News Network (www.wenn.com)

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