Sid Vicious

Sid Vicious barely played bass — and that's almost the whole point. He joined the Sex Pistols in 1977 more as a living prop for chaos than a musician, yet somehow that raw, can't-be-bothered energy perfectly completed the band's sneer at everything polished and polite. His cover of "My Way" is genuinely one of the most unhinged, weirdly brilliant things to come out of that era: a kid who couldn't really sing, demolishing a Sinatra standard with total conviction, and it works. Charged with the second-degree murder of Nancy Spungen, he died of a heroin overdose while out on bail at 21, and the legend that followed him — flawed, tragic, magnetic — ended up outlasting plenty of musicians who actually knew what they were doing.

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Name (English)

Sid Vicious

Name (Japanese)

シド・ヴィシャス

Reading

しど・ゔぃしゃす

Born

May 10, 1957 – February 2, 1979

Origin

Lewisham, United Kingdom

Occupation

musician / bass guitarist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rooster

University

Hackney College

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid%20Vicious
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47878

Tags

• musician
• bass guitarist

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.