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. He burned through 21 years like he had something to prove and no time to prove it, 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

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rooster

Origin

Lewisham, United Kingdom

Occupation

musician / bass guitarist

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

2026-06-02

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