Sid Vicious
John Simon Ritchie, better known by his stage name Sid Vicious, was an English musician, best known as the bassist for the punk rock band Sex Pistols. Despite dying in 1979 at age 21, he remains an icon of the punk subculture; one of his friends noted that he embodied "everything in punk that was dark, decadent and nihilistic."
10 May 1957
Born on the same birth day (10 May): Adrian Morley • Al Murray • Alex Schomburg • Arnold Rüütel • Arthur Alexander • Chris Berman • Ella Grasso • Ettore Scola • Graham Gouldman • Hazem Emam • J. D. Bernal • Jean Mairet • Joe Murphy (Irish republican) • Jon Schofield (canoeist) • Karl Barth • Manuel Santana • Max Steiner • William Henry Barlow
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