Sid Vicious : Sid Sings / Sid Vicious With The Idols

John Simon Ritchie 

(May 10th 1957 – February 2 1979),

 better known

 by his stage name

Sid Vicious 

was an

English musician, 

best known as

 the second bassist

 for the punk rock band 

The Sex Pistols. 

After his death in 1979 

at the age of 21,

 he remained an icon

 of the punk subculture;

 one of his friends

 noted that he embodied

"everything in punk

 that was dark, 

decadent 

and Nihilistic"

Sid Vicious : Too Fast To Live

 Simon John Ritchie

 (better known by his stage name Sid Vicious)

 (May 10th 1957 – February 2nd 1979) 

was an

 English musician,

 best known

 as the 

second bassist

 for the punk rock band

The Sex Pistols. 

After his death in 1979 

at the age of 21, 

he remained an icon

 of the punk subculture; 

one of his friends noted

 that he embodied

 "everything in punk

 that was dark,

 decadent 

and Nihilistic."