Michelle robinson and sid vicious
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Freedom, festivity and dead by sunrise: Inside Sid Vicious’s drug-fuelled last party
When Sid Vicious stepped out of Rikers Island, New York, on 1 February 1979, oblivion was the first thing on his mind. During the 54 days he spent in the notorious Bronx prison – there for breaching the conditions of his $50,000 bail from charges of murdering his girlfriend Nancy Spungen three months earlier – he’d undergone enforced cold turkey to rid him of the heroin habit that had blighted his days as Sex Pistols’ second bassist and punk’s definitive wildman. Staying clean, though, was never going to be part of the Vicious script.
Having made his way to Manhattan, Vicious ran into a photographer friend and drug buddy Peter Gravelle. Vicious – born Simon John Ritchie – asked Gravelle to bring $200 worth of heroin to a small gathering taking place that night to celebrate his release. The address was Bank Street, at the apartment of aspiring actor Michelle Robinson, one of several women Vicious had been seeing since Spungen’s death – for which he’d never stand trial because by tomorrow morning, 45 years ago, Vicious, too, would be dead aged just 21.
In the months that followed his death, much evidence would be presented to suggest that Vicious was of a self-destructive mindset that night.
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Sid Vicious Dead At 21
Sid vicious the twenty-one-year-old former Sex Pistol accused of murdering his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, was found dead in a Greenwich Village apartment on February 2nd, less than twenty-four hours after he was released from prison on $50,000 bail.
Vicious was found lying face up in bed in the apartment of Michelle Robinson, described by police as a “lady friend” of Vicious, at about 12:30 p.m. by Robinson and Vicious’ mother, Ann Beverly. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the New York City morgue. Police said the cause of death was a drug overdose. No other details were available at press time.
Vicious came into the public eye when he began playing bass for England’s premier punk-rock band, the Sex Pistols, in early 1977. About a year later, after an abbreviated American tour that led to the dissolution of the band, Vicious overdosed on pills and alcohol during a flight from Los Angeles to New York and had to be hospitalized. After returning to England, he cut a single, “My Way,” which rose to the Top Twenty on the British charts. Then in August, he and Spungen moved to New York City.
On October 12th, Vicious was arrested and charged with the fatal stabbing of Spungen in the Chelsea Hotel. Five days later he w
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