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."
