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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,967 --> 00:00:05,330 LADY: Sid Vicious, who's real name is John Simon Ritchie, 2 00:00:05,670 --> 00:00:07,367 was arraigned today on charges of murder. 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:09,100 He said he felt sick. 4 00:00:09,133 --> 00:00:11,167 His manager was told that bailing him out 5 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:13,467 pending trial would be extremely difficult. 6 00:00:13,500 --> 00:00:16,670 He's an alien, he's not employed. 7 00:00:16,100 --> 00:00:18,800 And he's given to violent outbursts of temper. 8 00:00:18,833 --> 00:00:21,400 But his manager said, and I quote, 9 00:00:21,433 --> 00:00:23,500 "Underneath that tough exterior, 10 00:00:23,533 --> 00:00:25,667 "there was a real nice guy." 11 00:00:25,700 --> 00:00:26,900 [ WHEN I DIE PLAYING] 12 00:00:26,933 --> 00:00:29,267 * Yes, I've been without Been down and out 13 00:00:29,300 --> 00:00:32,300 * Out on a limb With nowhere to go 14 00:00:32,333 --> 00:00:36,133 * I was told it would be One less thing on my mind 15 00:00:38,633 --> 00:00:41,600 * Not to worry about All the paying out 16 00:00:41,633 --> 00:00:44,833 * The piles of bills And final demands 17 00:00:44,867 --> 00:00:49,633 * They'd all be sorted When I die 18 00:00:49,667 --> 00:00:56,467 * I was going off the rails No matter how I tried 19 00:00:56,500 --> 00:01:03,367 * If all else fails failed And part of me just died * 20 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:05,500 Sid Vicious will not have to stand trial 21 00:01:05,533 --> 00:01:08,667 for the murder of a girlfriend at the Chelsea Hotel. 22 00:01:08,700 --> 00:01:11,100 Sid is no longer vicious, he's dead. 23 00:01:11,133 --> 00:01:13,567 His nude body found in a Greenwich Village apartment. 24 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:15,567 Spoon and syringe nearby. 25 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,733 * Then my luck came in I got a lucky win 26 00:01:18,767 --> 00:01:21,733 * Hundreds of thousands And thousands of friends 27 00:01:21,767 --> 00:01:26,433 * Had no more Worries for a time 28 00:01:26,467 --> 00:01:29,800 LADY REPORTER: Yesterday, police found him there in room 100. 29 00:01:29,833 --> 00:01:31,300 And on the bathroom floor 30 00:01:31,333 --> 00:01:33,233 they found the 20-year-old American girl 31 00:01:33,267 --> 00:01:35,300 he'd lived with for two years. 32 00:01:35,333 --> 00:01:39,200 * Can't take it with you When you die 33 00:01:39,233 --> 00:01:45,367 * I was back on happy trails I didn't have to try * 34 00:01:47,133 --> 00:01:49,100 MALE REPORTER: Sid Vicious was awaiting trial 35 00:01:49,133 --> 00:01:51,767 for the murder of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. 36 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:54,367 It was a murder so horrific in detail, 37 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:58,200 only a very sick mind could have lived with the reality. 38 00:01:58,233 --> 00:02:00,800 The police had no doubt about the murderer. 39 00:02:00,833 --> 00:02:03,767 "We have the figurative smoking gun", they said. 40 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:05,500 [ SICK CITY SOMETIMES PLAYING] 41 00:02:05,533 --> 00:02:08,500 * It's a complicated day 42 00:02:08,533 --> 00:02:10,333 * Busy people on their way 43 00:02:10,367 --> 00:02:13,433 I've always felt that Sid didn't kill Nancy. 44 00:02:13,467 --> 00:02:15,133 Sid thought he did it. 45 00:02:15,167 --> 00:02:17,670 He actually confessed 46 00:02:17,100 --> 00:02:19,100 to Joe Stevens that he thought he did it. 47 00:02:19,133 --> 00:02:20,200 DON: The last time I saw them, 48 00:02:20,233 --> 00:02:22,567 Sid's got this knife about yeah long, 49 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,330 and he's sort of sticking Nancy with it. 50 00:02:25,670 --> 00:02:27,567 Just gently but, you know, she's like, "Ow, Sid, that hurt." 51 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:31,133 So, I was like, "Sid, be careful, someone's gonna get hurt. 52 00:02:31,167 --> 00:02:35,133 I think he did it, in a moment of madness. 53 00:02:35,167 --> 00:02:38,233 Which Sid obviously won't remember because of what he was on. 54 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,633 * Sick city sometimes 55 00:02:41,667 --> 00:02:44,333 * Sick city in your mind 56 00:02:44,367 --> 00:02:47,167 * Sick city sometimes 57 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:50,367 * Sick city Left you way behind * 58 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:52,700 If you've ever been a heroin addict, 59 00:02:52,733 --> 00:02:55,800 and live with a girlfriend that was also a heroin addict, 60 00:02:55,833 --> 00:02:58,467 it's hard, I think, for most people to understand 61 00:02:58,500 --> 00:03:00,233 the dynamic of how much they lived it. 62 00:03:00,267 --> 00:03:03,267 It doesn't matter how much you love somebody. 63 00:03:03,300 --> 00:03:04,767 That all goes out the window 64 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:06,533 when there's drugs involved. 65 00:03:06,567 --> 00:03:08,467 I'm gonna be very honest here, 66 00:03:08,500 --> 00:03:12,267 I was sucked into heroin thing myself. 67 00:03:12,300 --> 00:03:15,233 * Sick city sometimes 68 00:03:15,267 --> 00:03:17,800 * Sick city in your mind 69 00:03:17,833 --> 00:03:20,533 * Sick city sometimes 70 00:03:20,567 --> 00:03:23,600 KRIS: Probably more fighting would go on between the couple, 71 00:03:23,633 --> 00:03:25,233 because I would've gone out to go rat 72 00:03:25,267 --> 00:03:27,333 someone's ass to the cops and then, 73 00:03:27,367 --> 00:03:29,800 creamed off a bit on the way home for themselves. 74 00:03:29,833 --> 00:03:31,500 STURGIS: If there's one bag, 75 00:03:31,533 --> 00:03:35,330 and they both need that one bag to get straight, 76 00:03:35,670 --> 00:03:36,670 because you're sick, 77 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:39,333 somebody could get hurt. 78 00:03:39,367 --> 00:03:42,167 KRIS: You get sneaky, devious with the one you love, 79 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:45,767 but you love them to bits, but you'd still steal their drugs. 80 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:49,733 Um, this did go on with Sid and Nancy. 81 00:03:49,767 --> 00:03:53,333 And both young, and narcotics were involved. 82 00:03:54,133 --> 00:03:55,467 A lethal combination. 83 00:03:55,500 --> 00:03:59,167 KRIS: What he was on, he could easily had, you know, 84 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:01,333 it really could have happened that way. 85 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,200 * Sick city sometimes 86 00:04:05,233 --> 00:04:07,800 * Sick city in your mind 87 00:04:07,833 --> 00:04:10,400 * Sick city sometimes 88 00:04:11,267 --> 00:04:12,600 They were both in the nod. 89 00:04:12,633 --> 00:04:15,600 Having been in a few myself, I'd say he had one of them. 90 00:04:15,633 --> 00:04:18,670 I mean, it was just a bit worse than usual. 91 00:04:18,100 --> 00:04:19,467 He wasn't aware of what was happening, 92 00:04:19,500 --> 00:04:20,600 woke up, she was dead. 93 00:04:20,633 --> 00:04:21,900 This is like a nightmare, 94 00:04:21,933 --> 00:04:24,100 this is like right out of the Twilight Zone episode. 95 00:04:24,133 --> 00:04:26,700 You wake up, there's a knife, a pool of blood, 96 00:04:26,733 --> 00:04:29,670 and you're girlfriend's in the bathroom, 97 00:04:29,100 --> 00:04:30,767 stabbed to death. 98 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:34,367 Well, anybody's gonna think, "What did I do last night?" 99 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:36,367 It was too easy just to blame Sid in the beginning, 100 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:37,633 and not follow the case up. 101 00:04:37,667 --> 00:04:40,700 I mean, it's amazing when we think back now, 102 00:04:40,733 --> 00:04:42,733 that the case wasn't followed up, 103 00:04:42,767 --> 00:04:44,333 most of it. [MUMBLING] 104 00:04:44,367 --> 00:04:47,133 Everybody just assumed that he was guilty. 105 00:04:47,167 --> 00:04:48,767 Police didn't give a fuck. 106 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:51,670 When he died, they went on like, "That's tidy." 107 00:04:51,100 --> 00:04:54,330 Boom, who gives a fuck? 108 00:04:54,670 --> 00:04:56,567 That's how junkies will just kill themselves, and... 109 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:58,100 Who gives a fuck? 110 00:04:58,133 --> 00:05:00,700 One thing I know for sure is he certainly didn't do it. 111 00:05:00,733 --> 00:05:03,133 Sid never, would never have done that. 112 00:05:03,167 --> 00:05:04,600 And I know that in my heart of hearts. 113 00:05:07,670 --> 00:05:08,100 [LIE IN BED PLAYING] 114 00:05:08,133 --> 00:05:09,500 * Lying on the floor 115 00:05:10,700 --> 00:05:14,467 * Dreams in your head 116 00:05:14,500 --> 00:05:17,000 * Is there anymore 117 00:05:18,167 --> 00:05:21,533 * Reasons to be dead 118 00:05:21,567 --> 00:05:26,000 * When I-I-I... 119 00:05:28,133 --> 00:05:30,000 * Lie in bed 120 00:05:35,333 --> 00:05:36,667 NARRATOR: In the evidence photos, 121 00:05:36,700 --> 00:05:39,800 there's a large TV about two feet in front of the door, 122 00:05:39,833 --> 00:05:42,433 which may or may not impede entrance. 123 00:05:42,467 --> 00:05:44,267 There are mattresses around the room 124 00:05:44,300 --> 00:05:46,133 for at least three people. 125 00:05:46,167 --> 00:05:49,367 There's a very clear blood-stained hand print on one of them. 126 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,667 And yet in the police file there is no mention of this. 127 00:05:52,700 --> 00:05:53,733 And for the record, 128 00:05:53,767 --> 00:05:56,330 the bed that Sid was passed out on, 129 00:05:56,670 --> 00:05:58,100 isn't the one with the hand print. 130 00:05:58,133 --> 00:05:59,800 According to the police evidence file, 131 00:05:59,833 --> 00:06:02,670 there were only four of Sid's fingerprints 132 00:06:02,100 --> 00:06:03,700 in the entire room. 133 00:06:03,733 --> 00:06:05,800 Nancy was stabbed once in the abdomen, 134 00:06:05,833 --> 00:06:08,330 and it took her around three hours to pass out, 135 00:06:08,670 --> 00:06:09,167 and bleed to death. 136 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:11,533 Which means that after she was stabbed, 137 00:06:11,567 --> 00:06:14,167 she would have been capable of getting to the room door, 138 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:15,767 screaming for help. 139 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:16,833 So, why did she decide 140 00:06:16,867 --> 00:06:18,600 to make her way to the bathroom 141 00:06:18,633 --> 00:06:19,733 to certain death? 142 00:06:21,667 --> 00:06:24,333 In all the NYPD police reports and statements 143 00:06:24,367 --> 00:06:27,333 the murder weapon, the Jaguar K-11 hunting knife, 144 00:06:27,367 --> 00:06:30,533 is left on top of an open suitcase next to the door. 145 00:06:30,567 --> 00:06:34,200 Wiped clean of any fingerprints or traces of blood. 146 00:06:34,233 --> 00:06:36,767 ALAN: Detective Kilroy was one of the arresting officers 147 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:38,500 when Sid was arrested. 148 00:06:38,533 --> 00:06:41,330 I think, he was never convinced 149 00:06:41,670 --> 00:06:44,533 it was more than just some mad, junkie murder. 150 00:06:44,567 --> 00:06:47,467 As far as he was concerned, it was a smoking gun case. 151 00:06:47,500 --> 00:06:48,667 He'd walked in. 152 00:06:48,700 --> 00:06:50,300 He'd found his killer. 153 00:06:50,333 --> 00:06:53,330 Uh, Sid had "guilty-man" written all over him. 154 00:06:53,670 --> 00:06:56,100 Even though they had to slap him around and get him, 155 00:06:56,133 --> 00:06:58,467 something like conscious to read him his rights. 156 00:06:58,500 --> 00:07:00,433 NARRATOR: In the police report there's an account 157 00:07:00,467 --> 00:07:03,133 of Sid's response to questioning on the scene. 158 00:07:03,167 --> 00:07:05,367 It's full of contradictions. 159 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:08,200 First, he states he didn't know what happened to Nancy, 160 00:07:08,233 --> 00:07:10,330 claiming he didn't stab her. 161 00:07:10,670 --> 00:07:12,330 Sid also claims that he took Tuinal 162 00:07:12,670 --> 00:07:14,330 and slept the night through. 163 00:07:14,670 --> 00:07:15,567 He then confesses to the murder, 164 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:17,267 saying that they had an argument. 165 00:07:17,300 --> 00:07:20,233 Finally, he tells police it must have been an accident. 166 00:07:21,300 --> 00:07:23,133 Sid also explains to the police, 167 00:07:23,167 --> 00:07:25,167 that when he initially found Nancy in the bathroom, 168 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:26,700 she was still breathing. 169 00:07:26,733 --> 00:07:28,367 And, after washing blood from her, 170 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:30,800 he went to the clinic to get her methadone. 171 00:07:30,833 --> 00:07:33,330 He called the police on his return. 172 00:07:33,670 --> 00:07:35,533 PETER: Sid was oblivious to it all. 173 00:07:35,567 --> 00:07:37,200 I mean, he even got up in the morning, 174 00:07:37,233 --> 00:07:38,733 and went to the methadone clinic. 175 00:07:38,767 --> 00:07:40,600 That had to be in the early morning, I think, 176 00:07:40,633 --> 00:07:43,600 the methadone clinic opens at 6:00 or something like that. 177 00:07:43,633 --> 00:07:45,267 He got his methadone and came back 178 00:07:45,300 --> 00:07:46,733 before he realized that she was dead. 179 00:07:46,767 --> 00:07:50,267 That's how, sort of, far-removed he was. 180 00:07:50,300 --> 00:07:51,467 [PEOPLE WHISPERING] 181 00:07:52,500 --> 00:07:54,267 [GAVEL STRIKING] 182 00:07:55,100 --> 00:07:56,400 STEVE: Malcolm was there. 183 00:07:57,670 --> 00:07:58,467 His mother was there. 184 00:08:01,467 --> 00:08:03,633 And, um, he got bailed. 185 00:08:03,667 --> 00:08:05,133 Pretty soon after, 186 00:08:05,167 --> 00:08:08,670 he got bailed out, I remember seeing him, um, 187 00:08:08,100 --> 00:08:10,367 down at Max's Kansas City 188 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:12,633 that particular night that he actually got out. 189 00:08:12,667 --> 00:08:15,267 There was a little back-slapping, 190 00:08:15,300 --> 00:08:17,567 and, "Nice to see you Sid," and all this from everybody. 191 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:21,667 Obviously, from the way he acted over those days, 192 00:08:21,700 --> 00:08:23,500 uh, seemed getting him into trouble again. 193 00:08:23,533 --> 00:08:25,833 He obviously wasn't in a good state. 194 00:08:25,867 --> 00:08:27,400 POLICE: What would you like to have now? 195 00:08:27,433 --> 00:08:28,800 I'd like to have fun. 196 00:08:31,433 --> 00:08:32,600 What sort of fun? 197 00:08:34,567 --> 00:08:36,567 Any kind of fun, just fun. 198 00:08:37,700 --> 00:08:39,600 That is my object in life. 199 00:08:43,133 --> 00:08:44,733 Are you having fun at the moment? 200 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:47,433 You kidding? 201 00:08:47,467 --> 00:08:49,300 I'm not having fun at all. 202 00:08:52,767 --> 00:08:54,100 Where would you like to be? 203 00:08:56,100 --> 00:08:57,267 Under the ground. 204 00:08:59,267 --> 00:09:00,267 Are you serious? 205 00:09:00,700 --> 00:09:01,800 Oh, yeah. 206 00:09:04,133 --> 00:09:05,200 I mean, it was, you know, 207 00:09:05,233 --> 00:09:07,670 silly just to let him out on the streets, 208 00:09:07,100 --> 00:09:08,600 and, "Where's he gonna go?" 209 00:09:08,633 --> 00:09:09,833 He's gonna go looking for drugs, 210 00:09:09,867 --> 00:09:11,600 he's gonna, you know, go to the night clubs, 211 00:09:11,633 --> 00:09:13,133 and hang out in places 212 00:09:13,167 --> 00:09:14,800 where people are just going to encourage him 213 00:09:14,833 --> 00:09:16,670 to get into some more trouble. 214 00:09:16,100 --> 00:09:18,167 [PEOPLE SHOUTING] 215 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:19,200 [BOTTLE SMASHING] 216 00:09:21,867 --> 00:09:24,600 Yeah, we decided to go out. Sid wanted to go out. 217 00:09:24,633 --> 00:09:26,500 I mean, it was about... We had to get out. 218 00:09:26,533 --> 00:09:28,300 He was stir-crazy. 219 00:09:28,333 --> 00:09:30,200 So we went... Decided to go to Hurrah's. 220 00:09:30,233 --> 00:09:32,300 I mean, it was empty and there was a band playing 221 00:09:32,333 --> 00:09:33,367 really, really loud. 222 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:35,367 There's a scuffle to my right, 223 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:36,733 and I'm like, "What's going on?" 224 00:09:36,767 --> 00:09:38,700 Sid out of nowhere, 225 00:09:38,733 --> 00:09:42,367 I mean, completely out of context with everything, 226 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:44,600 smashes the glass on this guy's face. 227 00:09:44,633 --> 00:09:47,467 There's glass flying and Peter's going, "Oh, fuck." 228 00:09:47,500 --> 00:09:50,670 I grab him and we drag him out. 229 00:09:50,100 --> 00:09:51,467 And we're just running. 230 00:09:51,500 --> 00:09:53,600 And we're running out into the street, 231 00:09:53,633 --> 00:09:56,700 I mean, people are chasing us, screaming, shouting. 232 00:09:56,733 --> 00:09:58,167 I'm like, "What the fuck happened?" 233 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:00,667 You know, "Sid just broke a freaking glass in..." 234 00:10:00,700 --> 00:10:02,670 We didn't know who it was. 235 00:10:02,100 --> 00:10:03,233 Patti Smith's brother, of course. 236 00:10:03,267 --> 00:10:05,467 From what people told me, 237 00:10:05,500 --> 00:10:07,700 I know Patti Smith's brother was a buffoon 238 00:10:07,733 --> 00:10:10,767 and probably deserved anything that happened to him. 239 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:13,167 That guy was just some drunk moron 240 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:16,333 who, you know, it was the straw that broke the camel's back, I think. 241 00:10:20,700 --> 00:10:24,330 It's stupid, but a 21-year-old crazy boy, 242 00:10:24,670 --> 00:10:25,767 does something and he goes back to jail. 243 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:28,233 He didn't think about that. 244 00:10:28,267 --> 00:10:29,633 End of it. 245 00:10:29,667 --> 00:10:32,670 So much for protecting Sid. [LAUGHING] 246 00:10:32,100 --> 00:10:33,233 But he was like that, 247 00:10:33,267 --> 00:10:34,700 he could go off at any moment around, 248 00:10:34,733 --> 00:10:36,700 and that was the thing, it was a little bit... 249 00:10:36,733 --> 00:10:38,567 You were always like, "Oh, let's go out, 250 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:40,333 "oh, what's gonna happen now." 251 00:10:40,367 --> 00:10:43,567 Vicious is in a detention cell at the Manhattan Criminal Court building 252 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:47,330 waiting for friends to post $50,000 bail. 253 00:10:47,670 --> 00:10:49,700 Sid was due in court on the first of February. 254 00:10:49,733 --> 00:10:53,567 Um, a really good lawyer had been hired by now, 255 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:55,233 James Merberg. 256 00:10:55,267 --> 00:10:57,330 At the expense of Virgin Records 257 00:10:57,670 --> 00:10:58,200 and the deal that Malcolm had done 258 00:10:58,233 --> 00:11:00,767 for an album that they were gonna record. 259 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:04,100 What no one understood is just how good Merberg was. 260 00:11:04,133 --> 00:11:06,700 The assumption that glittered in his management office was 261 00:11:06,733 --> 00:11:10,670 that it would take at least until the 3rd or 4th of February, 262 00:11:10,100 --> 00:11:12,167 to get Sid released on the new bail 263 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:14,133 that Virgin had posted for him. 264 00:11:14,167 --> 00:11:16,267 Merberg goes in there, 265 00:11:16,300 --> 00:11:19,133 in the morning on the first and by lunchtime 266 00:11:19,167 --> 00:11:21,367 it's all wrapped up and done and dusted. 267 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:23,667 And so, Sid is released 268 00:11:23,700 --> 00:11:26,433 into the waiting arms of 269 00:11:26,467 --> 00:11:28,133 his mother, Anne Beverley, 270 00:11:28,167 --> 00:11:30,267 and his new girlfriend, Michelle Robinson. 271 00:11:30,300 --> 00:11:35,100 I happened to know Michelle Robinson since long before, um, Sid... 272 00:11:35,133 --> 00:11:36,667 She was around in the days 273 00:11:36,700 --> 00:11:39,300 when I was working with David Bowie. 274 00:11:39,333 --> 00:11:42,767 ALAN: She had a big fixation on Sid for a long time 275 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:44,800 and she knew Nancy 276 00:11:44,833 --> 00:11:47,330 from before Nancy went to England. 277 00:11:47,670 --> 00:11:49,367 The new girlfriend, you know, that was quick. 278 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:51,300 Um, very quickly that one. 279 00:11:51,333 --> 00:11:52,733 But, you know, he needed somebody. 280 00:11:52,767 --> 00:11:55,300 He needed that sort of emotional prop. 281 00:11:55,333 --> 00:11:57,200 And she fit the bill. 282 00:11:57,233 --> 00:11:59,300 She was a little bit like 283 00:12:00,733 --> 00:12:02,600 the old brand of groupies. 284 00:12:02,633 --> 00:12:04,833 She always dressed candid. 285 00:12:04,867 --> 00:12:08,167 In those days, kind of in a semi-SNM kind of way. 286 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:10,670 Lot of leather, lot of high heels, 287 00:12:10,100 --> 00:12:13,400 lot of hair, huge amounts of make-up. 288 00:12:13,433 --> 00:12:14,567 She was very glamorous. 289 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:17,267 She had a very, very aggressive personality. 290 00:12:17,300 --> 00:12:20,633 And Sid was like the prize. 291 00:12:20,667 --> 00:12:22,833 No matter what condition, he was Sid Vicious. 292 00:12:22,867 --> 00:12:24,733 He was the trophy. 293 00:12:24,767 --> 00:12:26,833 And they wanted him. 294 00:12:26,867 --> 00:12:31,833 Ultimately if he would've, you know, not met his 295 00:12:31,867 --> 00:12:33,433 untimely demise, 296 00:12:33,467 --> 00:12:35,533 that was a good situation for him. 297 00:12:35,567 --> 00:12:37,300 It really was. 298 00:12:37,333 --> 00:12:41,500 We thought he was getting out that day and, um... 299 00:12:43,100 --> 00:12:45,300 We were going to wait and see if he was getting out, 300 00:12:45,333 --> 00:12:48,670 and then have a party. [LAUGHING] 301 00:12:49,670 --> 00:12:50,670 Whee! 302 00:12:55,670 --> 00:12:58,500 I'd gone down to the courthouse with, um, Terry Ork. 303 00:12:58,533 --> 00:13:01,400 Somebody comes up to me, he goes,"Oh, you appeal today." 304 00:13:01,433 --> 00:13:03,367 He goes... I didn't recognize the person. 305 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:04,767 He goes... He says, 306 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:07,533 "You're friend's gonna be getting out in a minute." 307 00:13:07,567 --> 00:13:09,567 You know, we're friends of Sid. 308 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:11,333 So, he says, "If you go downstairs, 309 00:13:11,367 --> 00:13:14,330 "he should coming out in the next half hour." 310 00:13:14,670 --> 00:13:16,267 I think his mother... I bumped into his mother next. 311 00:13:16,300 --> 00:13:19,300 And within like 5-10 minutes, there was Sid. 312 00:13:19,333 --> 00:13:21,333 After that, then we, you know, were out the door, 313 00:13:21,367 --> 00:13:22,667 were out the back door of the courthouse 314 00:13:22,700 --> 00:13:24,500 on to the streets. 315 00:13:24,533 --> 00:13:28,133 ALAN: During interviews with Sid's mother for my book, 316 00:13:28,167 --> 00:13:29,400 she made it plainly obvious 317 00:13:29,433 --> 00:13:31,233 that both herself and Malcolm 318 00:13:31,267 --> 00:13:34,670 had talked to him regarding a possible future. 319 00:13:34,100 --> 00:13:35,800 But he seemed to be stuck in a mantra 320 00:13:35,833 --> 00:13:38,670 regarding joining his Nancy. 321 00:13:38,100 --> 00:13:40,670 [ EARLY GRAVE PLAYING] 322 00:13:40,767 --> 00:13:43,467 * To the man 323 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:47,467 * To the man 324 00:13:47,500 --> 00:13:52,333 * Of an early grave 325 00:13:52,367 --> 00:13:54,500 So, you know, like any junkie, 326 00:13:54,533 --> 00:13:56,567 uh, you know, he wanted to get high. 327 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:58,567 You know what I mean, that's the first... 328 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:00,330 Your first thought always. 329 00:14:00,670 --> 00:14:02,330 What a great time to get high when you're clean. 330 00:14:08,467 --> 00:14:11,100 PETER: I think his mother picked up some drugs for Sid 331 00:14:11,133 --> 00:14:14,167 and Sid's like, "Have you got them, you've got them?" 332 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:16,467 And anyway we go to the hotel... 333 00:14:16,500 --> 00:14:19,733 We go to this place where Anne's staying 334 00:14:19,767 --> 00:14:22,833 and he does the drugs and of course they are absolutely rubbish. 335 00:14:22,867 --> 00:14:25,400 At this point, you know, Sid had asked me, 336 00:14:25,433 --> 00:14:27,400 "Oh, can you get me anything, can you get me anything?" 337 00:14:27,433 --> 00:14:30,300 I'm in a bit of two minds about what to do. 338 00:14:30,333 --> 00:14:32,367 So anyway I say, "I'll see what I can do." 339 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:33,767 I had other things I had to do that day. 340 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:36,433 I was, at that point, living with, uh, 341 00:14:36,467 --> 00:14:37,700 two French hookers, 342 00:14:37,733 --> 00:14:40,567 who were actually heroin dealers up on 15th street. 343 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:43,167 But they came out, he came out with Peter, 344 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:44,700 looking to score. 345 00:14:44,733 --> 00:14:46,500 And after the fiasco at Hurrah 346 00:14:46,533 --> 00:14:48,100 with the pain and the glasses... 347 00:14:48,133 --> 00:14:49,767 I think... I just... 348 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:51,733 My whole thing... We knew he was coming over. 349 00:14:51,767 --> 00:14:54,600 It was like we talked. There was a whole bunch of us like, 350 00:14:54,633 --> 00:14:56,233 "Let's not sell him anything." 351 00:14:56,267 --> 00:15:00,300 So, the usual channels were, um, I would... 352 00:15:00,333 --> 00:15:03,330 New people were probably dealing in it. 353 00:15:03,670 --> 00:15:08,330 Um, nobody really wanted to, um, get involved. 354 00:15:08,670 --> 00:15:13,533 We had some shit, but we decided not to give him any. 355 00:15:13,567 --> 00:15:15,300 So, he came over looking for that. 356 00:15:15,333 --> 00:15:18,500 And we said, "No, Sid, we're looking for ourselves." 357 00:15:18,533 --> 00:15:20,833 I don't think we did a very convincing job. 358 00:15:20,867 --> 00:15:22,367 'Cause I could tell. 359 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:25,670 He hung his head and went, "All right, guys." And left. 360 00:15:25,100 --> 00:15:27,433 And that was the last time I saw him alive. 361 00:15:34,367 --> 00:15:37,300 At that time I felt like I was doing him a favor. 362 00:15:37,333 --> 00:15:38,767 But then now I wish I'd said, 363 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:40,600 "Now come and see what'll I do." 364 00:15:40,633 --> 00:15:43,467 You know, now I feel like I made a mistake then. 365 00:15:43,500 --> 00:15:46,167 And that's when Peter was dispatched 366 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:48,367 by Anne, with Anne's money, 367 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:51,367 to go and get some more drugs for Sid. 368 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:53,400 PETER: Somehow I got in touch with this woman, 369 00:15:53,433 --> 00:15:54,833 who I didn't know at all. 370 00:15:54,867 --> 00:15:58,670 And somebody had given me her as a contact. 371 00:15:58,100 --> 00:16:00,300 I went down to see her. 372 00:16:00,333 --> 00:16:04,700 And I got what I'd been asked to pick up. 373 00:16:04,733 --> 00:16:06,800 ALAN: The things, what did come back with Peter, 374 00:16:06,833 --> 00:16:08,367 was beyond good. 375 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:10,233 It was, you know, I think... 376 00:16:10,267 --> 00:16:13,200 It said it was 98% proof or something. 377 00:16:13,233 --> 00:16:14,600 Which is too pure for the human body 378 00:16:14,633 --> 00:16:16,300 in any state basically. 379 00:16:16,333 --> 00:16:19,670 About two days later, 380 00:16:19,100 --> 00:16:21,733 I tried to get in touch with this woman again, 381 00:16:21,767 --> 00:16:25,330 and, uh, this woman had disappeared. 382 00:16:26,100 --> 00:16:27,633 She was no longer 383 00:16:27,667 --> 00:16:31,300 at the place where I'd met her, at the apartment I'd met her. 384 00:16:31,333 --> 00:16:33,433 And was nowhere to be found, really. 385 00:16:33,467 --> 00:16:34,667 I never saw her again. 386 00:16:35,367 --> 00:16:37,167 [PEOPLE CHATTERING] 387 00:16:40,367 --> 00:16:41,433 Oh, my God! 388 00:16:42,333 --> 00:16:43,400 Oh, my... 389 00:16:43,433 --> 00:16:45,200 REPORTER: Donna Floria lived just across the hall 390 00:16:45,233 --> 00:16:47,467 from the apartment in which the singer died. 391 00:16:47,500 --> 00:16:50,167 But she would not say whether she was among the eight people 392 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:52,300 who attended last night's party for Sid Vicious. 393 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:54,533 I was invited to that... 394 00:16:55,300 --> 00:16:57,670 "Party." 395 00:16:57,100 --> 00:16:59,300 Which wasn't really a party, it was just a few people. 396 00:16:59,333 --> 00:17:01,670 There weren't even that many people. 397 00:17:01,100 --> 00:17:03,333 Michelle asked if I could get heroin. 398 00:17:03,367 --> 00:17:05,433 I was like, "I'm not a dealer." 399 00:17:05,467 --> 00:17:07,467 You know, "No, I don't know." 400 00:17:07,500 --> 00:17:09,533 "Well, you're invited anyway, come. 401 00:17:09,567 --> 00:17:12,333 "You know, Sid's out," and da-da, da-da, da... 402 00:17:12,367 --> 00:17:13,833 And, I said, 403 00:17:13,867 --> 00:17:16,100 "Nah, too exhausting for me." 404 00:17:16,133 --> 00:17:18,600 Yeah, it was me and, like, my best friend 405 00:17:18,633 --> 00:17:20,600 and there was Jerry Only from the Misfits. 406 00:17:21,700 --> 00:17:25,333 Um, and Eileen, three of us. 407 00:17:25,367 --> 00:17:30,300 And then just Michelle and Anne and Sid, that was it. 408 00:17:30,333 --> 00:17:32,333 MAN: Who was in the flat when you got back? 409 00:17:32,367 --> 00:17:36,700 Just, uh, Sid's mother, Sid and Michelle 410 00:17:36,733 --> 00:17:39,633 And I went to the apartment probably at about... 411 00:17:39,667 --> 00:17:42,100 I would say no earlier than about 7:00 412 00:17:42,133 --> 00:17:44,267 and no later than about 8:30. 413 00:17:44,300 --> 00:17:47,100 No one came in, they came by. 414 00:17:47,133 --> 00:17:50,100 You know, to make deliveries, but they didn't come in. 415 00:17:50,133 --> 00:17:52,200 I don't know what they said, but... 416 00:17:52,233 --> 00:17:55,300 I was there until about 1:32 in the morning. 417 00:17:55,333 --> 00:17:58,467 HOWIE: None of us had ever mentioned Peter Kodick's name, 418 00:17:58,500 --> 00:18:01,567 I always left that out because 419 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:03,767 I didn't know where he is or what trouble he was in. 420 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:06,167 I didn't want to make his life miserable, 421 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:08,670 and just in case, you know. 422 00:18:08,100 --> 00:18:11,330 ALAN: Twenty-nine and three-quarter years later. 423 00:18:11,670 --> 00:18:13,133 That's 63 Bank street. 424 00:18:13,167 --> 00:18:15,233 HOWIE: Weirdsville. 425 00:18:15,267 --> 00:18:17,100 I remember it a little differently. 426 00:18:17,133 --> 00:18:19,167 It doesn't resemble. 427 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:21,133 HOWIE: I thought this was... 428 00:18:21,167 --> 00:18:23,833 I think the living room came more up to here maybe. 429 00:18:23,867 --> 00:18:26,833 The living room was right up next to the kitchen. 430 00:18:26,867 --> 00:18:28,667 ALAN: It was like a small... 431 00:18:28,700 --> 00:18:31,833 What would you call it, probably like bed steps. 432 00:18:31,867 --> 00:18:33,633 Um, the apartment in New York. 433 00:18:33,667 --> 00:18:37,333 And there was a big... There was a couch going along here. 434 00:18:38,433 --> 00:18:41,133 And nothing here. 435 00:18:41,167 --> 00:18:44,433 'Cause I remember when those guys came through the door, 436 00:18:44,467 --> 00:18:46,800 you could see them from sitting here, you know. 437 00:18:46,833 --> 00:18:49,667 PETER: There is, what you call a front room, 438 00:18:49,700 --> 00:18:51,400 with a kitchen in it. 439 00:18:51,433 --> 00:18:52,767 And a bathroom, that was it. 440 00:18:53,633 --> 00:18:55,233 [GASPS] Wow! 441 00:18:56,367 --> 00:18:57,567 This is the same. 442 00:18:59,133 --> 00:19:00,133 Wow! 443 00:19:02,500 --> 00:19:06,133 I mean, basically small, small bedroom. 444 00:19:06,167 --> 00:19:08,633 She had a bed where her and Sid were lying. 445 00:19:08,667 --> 00:19:10,233 Very, very weird. 446 00:19:10,267 --> 00:19:12,800 I mean, it's so similar 'cause it's really dark. 447 00:19:12,833 --> 00:19:16,200 And I remember it being really dark and, uh... 448 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:20,767 This is all very, very similar. 449 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:23,667 REPORTER: The police say they were told by the victim's girlfriend 450 00:19:23,700 --> 00:19:26,833 that his last hours were spent looking towards the future. 451 00:19:26,867 --> 00:19:30,200 HOWIE: He was just in really amazing spirits. 452 00:19:30,233 --> 00:19:31,667 PETER: We were laughing at certain things. 453 00:19:31,700 --> 00:19:33,433 Malcolm had sent him a list of the songs 454 00:19:33,467 --> 00:19:35,533 that he wanted him to do for the album. 455 00:19:35,567 --> 00:19:37,833 I knew there was the ones that The Clash ended up doing, 456 00:19:37,867 --> 00:19:40,600 like, "I fought the law and the law won," and, uh... 457 00:19:40,633 --> 00:19:44,167 I remember one that was on... It was YMCA, 458 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:49,133 which we thought, highly unusual, and a bit amusing. 459 00:19:49,167 --> 00:19:51,233 And we were going through the list, laughing at that. 460 00:19:51,267 --> 00:19:53,300 HOWIE: He was really happy to see everybody 461 00:19:53,333 --> 00:19:57,467 and talking and we were listening to New York Dolls records 462 00:19:57,500 --> 00:19:59,500 and he was jumping around playing air guitar, 463 00:19:59,533 --> 00:20:01,733 being funny and telling jokes and... 464 00:20:01,767 --> 00:20:05,667 It was really an incredible thing for me 465 00:20:05,700 --> 00:20:07,433 to see the real side of him. 466 00:20:07,467 --> 00:20:09,733 He was talking about going upstate, 467 00:20:09,767 --> 00:20:11,567 clearing his name up, 468 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:14,367 doing this record and... 469 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:15,667 He had a lot on his shoulders, 470 00:20:15,700 --> 00:20:19,467 but it was pretty positive. 471 00:20:19,500 --> 00:20:23,633 INTERVIEWER: Another distinction you have is being the other person, 472 00:20:23,667 --> 00:20:25,733 who did the same stuff 473 00:20:25,767 --> 00:20:29,533 the night that he OD'd. Yeah, yeah, that's true. 474 00:20:29,567 --> 00:20:33,800 And, I OD'd that night also. Did that come from... 475 00:20:33,833 --> 00:20:35,767 Did that come from your regular dealer? 476 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:38,600 No, it was a friend of ours, 477 00:20:38,633 --> 00:20:41,433 uh, that flew in from England. 478 00:20:41,467 --> 00:20:44,733 Soon as I shot this dope, man, it was fucking strong. 479 00:20:44,767 --> 00:20:46,333 I knew it as soon as I shot it. 480 00:20:46,367 --> 00:20:50,670 I walked out of the bathroom, I said, "I think this is it." 481 00:20:50,100 --> 00:20:53,300 And Sheila just said... I heard Sheila going, 482 00:20:53,333 --> 00:20:54,800 "Don't die in my apartment." 483 00:20:54,833 --> 00:20:56,733 I said, "Shut the fuck up." 484 00:20:56,767 --> 00:21:00,333 And next thing I knew, it was four hours later. 485 00:21:00,367 --> 00:21:02,267 I wouldn't say it was his fault. 486 00:21:02,300 --> 00:21:03,800 He told you it was strong. 487 00:21:03,833 --> 00:21:05,333 Yes, he did. Mm-hmm. 488 00:21:05,367 --> 00:21:07,633 And he didn't hold a gun to my head. 489 00:21:08,100 --> 00:21:09,267 I took it. 490 00:21:10,300 --> 00:21:12,533 I took it with a smile on my face. 491 00:21:12,567 --> 00:21:15,633 About 12:00 Sid Vicious shot up some heroin, 492 00:21:15,667 --> 00:21:17,533 and he had a reaction to it, 493 00:21:17,567 --> 00:21:20,600 which he came out of about 45 minutes later. 494 00:21:20,633 --> 00:21:23,767 And then about 2:00, he laid down 495 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:25,433 to go to sleep. 496 00:21:25,467 --> 00:21:27,670 He'd taken too much. 497 00:21:29,233 --> 00:21:31,767 He sort of passed out. 498 00:21:32,833 --> 00:21:35,100 We revived him. 499 00:21:35,133 --> 00:21:39,667 And then it was a good few hours, I was there after. 500 00:21:39,700 --> 00:21:42,367 And by the time I left, he was okay. 501 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:45,400 HOWIE: I remember that it became a real bummer 502 00:21:45,433 --> 00:21:47,333 and we left for a while. 503 00:21:47,367 --> 00:21:48,600 Sid had asked me if there was anymore, 504 00:21:48,633 --> 00:21:50,133 and I told him, "No, there's not any left." 505 00:21:50,167 --> 00:21:53,330 I said, "It's all gone, you've done it all." 506 00:21:53,670 --> 00:21:55,433 And what was left I gave to his mother. 507 00:21:55,467 --> 00:21:56,833 And I told her, like, 508 00:21:56,867 --> 00:21:59,633 "No way give him anymore of this tonight. 509 00:21:59,667 --> 00:22:02,100 "You know, give him this tomorrow." 510 00:22:02,133 --> 00:22:05,333 The significance of detoxification 511 00:22:05,367 --> 00:22:08,733 is that if a drug user detoxifies 512 00:22:08,767 --> 00:22:11,633 and uses the same dose he was used to, 513 00:22:11,667 --> 00:22:13,000 it can be lethal. 514 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:15,767 So the detoxification program 515 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:18,467 takes the drug user off the drug, 516 00:22:18,500 --> 00:22:21,400 but also removes whatever tolerance 517 00:22:21,433 --> 00:22:23,133 or immunity he has for the drug. 518 00:22:23,167 --> 00:22:24,733 Then the phone rang, 519 00:22:24,767 --> 00:22:26,367 it was Pam Brown. 520 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:28,367 And... 521 00:22:29,633 --> 00:22:31,800 She asked me if I saw the news. 522 00:22:31,833 --> 00:22:34,100 I said, "Nah, I didn't see very much." 523 00:22:34,133 --> 00:22:36,300 And she said, " Sid died." 524 00:22:37,633 --> 00:22:38,800 I knew it was the same dope, 525 00:22:38,833 --> 00:22:40,667 and then I found out that's what it was. 526 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:43,400 [ROCK MUSIC PLAYING] 527 00:22:52,133 --> 00:22:53,533 My first reaction was, 528 00:22:53,567 --> 00:22:54,667 "hot shot." 529 00:22:54,700 --> 00:22:56,100 Well, they got a batch 530 00:22:56,133 --> 00:22:58,667 that I think was particularly good. 531 00:22:58,700 --> 00:23:00,233 LEEE: The stories now told 532 00:23:00,267 --> 00:23:02,800 are that it was heroin that was just too pure. 533 00:23:02,833 --> 00:23:05,133 But then that was also a very common way 534 00:23:05,167 --> 00:23:06,700 of hot shoting someone. 535 00:23:06,733 --> 00:23:08,300 REPORTER: All I know for now 536 00:23:08,333 --> 00:23:10,500 is that he'd been asleep with companion Michelle Robinson 537 00:23:10,533 --> 00:23:12,330 at the time of his death. 538 00:23:13,100 --> 00:23:14,500 She's an unemployed actress 539 00:23:14,533 --> 00:23:15,733 who was hustled away from the scene 540 00:23:15,767 --> 00:23:17,533 along with the victim's mother. 541 00:23:17,567 --> 00:23:20,330 The whole idea, his mother gave him something, 542 00:23:20,670 --> 00:23:21,367 I don't believe that. 543 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:22,700 I don't believe that. 544 00:23:22,733 --> 00:23:25,133 The only people who can say the God's honest truth 545 00:23:25,167 --> 00:23:27,500 about what went on in Bank Street that night, 546 00:23:27,533 --> 00:23:29,400 one is Sid, and he's dead, 547 00:23:29,433 --> 00:23:32,133 one is Anne, and she's dead, and one is Michelle, 548 00:23:32,167 --> 00:23:34,167 and she doesn't even answer to that name anymore. 549 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:35,767 Whether he took more, 550 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,667 whether there were other things like pills involved, 551 00:23:38,700 --> 00:23:42,233 God alone knows. But we know he'd overdosed once that night, 552 00:23:42,267 --> 00:23:44,233 he OD'd finally somewhere in the night, 553 00:23:44,267 --> 00:23:47,167 and the next morning, Sid Vicious was dead. 554 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:48,800 HOWIE: I was here once, 555 00:23:48,833 --> 00:23:52,200 for six or seven hours, ever in my life. 556 00:23:52,233 --> 00:23:54,467 Thirty years ago. With this thing 557 00:23:54,500 --> 00:23:56,767 that happened here that impacted my entire life, 558 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:58,233 I could never touch it. 559 00:23:58,267 --> 00:23:59,400 You know what I mean. 560 00:23:59,433 --> 00:24:01,767 And now, I'm standing in it. 561 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,367 So, that's really, really odd. 562 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,733 NARRATOR: The day after Sid's death, his mother, Anne Beverly, 563 00:24:08,767 --> 00:24:12,133 found this note in the pocket of her son's jeans. 564 00:24:12,167 --> 00:24:13,800 It seems to point to a death pact 565 00:24:13,833 --> 00:24:15,433 between Sid and Nancy 566 00:24:15,467 --> 00:24:18,100 which apparently had existed since the previous summer. 567 00:24:19,267 --> 00:24:21,733 It was meant to happen. 568 00:24:21,767 --> 00:24:25,100 Nancy always said she'd die before she was 21. 569 00:24:25,133 --> 00:24:28,233 I think I was the... What they now call a "self harmer". 570 00:24:28,267 --> 00:24:30,833 In them days it was called stupid. 571 00:24:30,867 --> 00:24:33,133 I think it was an inspiration to Sid as well. 572 00:24:33,167 --> 00:24:35,267 And of course, he had to do bigger 573 00:24:35,300 --> 00:24:36,733 and better and went further. 574 00:24:36,767 --> 00:24:39,200 The last major British magazine interview 575 00:24:39,233 --> 00:24:40,267 the pair of them did 576 00:24:40,300 --> 00:24:41,600 was for the Record Mirror. 577 00:24:41,633 --> 00:24:43,767 That was March-April '78. 578 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:45,330 They were already telling people 579 00:24:45,670 --> 00:24:46,700 they'd got a suicide pact. 580 00:24:46,733 --> 00:24:49,433 Nancy, by all accounts, had been telling people, 581 00:24:49,467 --> 00:24:51,100 before she even came to England, 582 00:24:51,133 --> 00:24:52,500 that she'd never make 21. 583 00:24:52,533 --> 00:24:55,670 STEVE: There was always a sort of faintness, 584 00:24:55,100 --> 00:24:58,367 a sort of acceptance, you know, "Live fast die young," 585 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,167 and he wasn't going to see very much old age. 586 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,167 She definitely had like that thing. 587 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,000 I think she just brought him into it. 588 00:25:05,733 --> 00:25:07,670 Like death wish. 589 00:25:07,100 --> 00:25:08,667 I remember going into the kitchen one day, 590 00:25:08,700 --> 00:25:11,700 and Nancy was there with her hand over a bowl. 591 00:25:12,633 --> 00:25:14,333 She cut her wrist. 592 00:25:14,367 --> 00:25:15,567 Eating her ice cream. 593 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:17,300 "Okay, all right, Nancy. What are you doing?" 594 00:25:17,333 --> 00:25:19,330 "Sid doesn't love me anymore." 595 00:25:19,670 --> 00:25:21,100 "All right, I'll come back. I'm just gonna put the kettle on." 596 00:25:21,133 --> 00:25:23,267 You know, it was just total play-acting. 597 00:25:23,300 --> 00:25:25,670 The philosophical answer 598 00:25:25,100 --> 00:25:27,330 and probably the only answer I can give you 599 00:25:27,670 --> 00:25:29,700 with any authority is Nancy killed Nancy. 600 00:25:29,733 --> 00:25:33,567 HOWIE: I kinda feel like the most logical conclusion to me 601 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,100 is that she just did it herself 602 00:25:35,133 --> 00:25:36,700 as some kind of, you know... 603 00:25:38,233 --> 00:25:40,667 That's what people like that do, you know. 604 00:25:40,700 --> 00:25:43,200 Like teenagers who cut themselves, you know. 605 00:25:43,233 --> 00:25:44,533 NEON: I lost a friend. 606 00:25:44,567 --> 00:25:46,267 Person that I'd known for a long time. 607 00:25:46,300 --> 00:25:47,700 Drug addiction's a disease. 608 00:25:47,733 --> 00:25:50,167 It's like being mad at somebody for having cancer. 609 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,600 You know, it's like, it's a disease. 610 00:25:52,633 --> 00:25:54,767 [ TERMINAL PLAYING] 611 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:11,300 NARRATOR: With the death of Sid Vicious, NYPD closed the case 612 00:26:11,333 --> 00:26:13,500 believing he was the murderer. 613 00:26:13,533 --> 00:26:16,333 No further investigation has ever taken place. 614 00:26:16,367 --> 00:26:19,167 But the police all treated this like, "Who cares, 615 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:20,767 "it's just another dead junkie. 616 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,733 "You know, we got better things to do with our time." 617 00:26:23,767 --> 00:26:26,233 And this guy's name was Vicious. 618 00:26:26,267 --> 00:26:29,367 Um, you know, he was supposedly violent, 619 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:30,833 You know, of course, he killed his girlfriend. 620 00:26:30,867 --> 00:26:32,667 They never thought twice about it. 621 00:26:32,700 --> 00:26:35,400 Nobody ever followed up on it. 622 00:26:35,433 --> 00:26:39,500 It's like Sid got out, Sid OD'd and end of story? 623 00:26:39,533 --> 00:26:41,533 Is that really what happened? 624 00:26:42,300 --> 00:26:44,100 Is that, just, you know... 625 00:26:44,133 --> 00:26:47,533 Might as well just leave it at that, who cares. 626 00:26:47,567 --> 00:26:49,670 ALAN: Anne Beverly was a character. 627 00:26:49,100 --> 00:26:50,633 Anne Beverly was very Bohemian. 628 00:26:50,667 --> 00:26:53,467 I first was introduced to her in 1984. 629 00:26:53,500 --> 00:26:56,300 And we talked about doing a book 630 00:26:56,333 --> 00:26:58,167 about her son. 631 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,800 And then Alex Cox's movie came along, Sid and Nancy, 632 00:27:00,833 --> 00:27:03,367 which played two significant roles. 633 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,670 It postponed the book for about three or four years. 634 00:27:06,100 --> 00:27:09,800 And it allowed me and Anne to get closer, 635 00:27:09,833 --> 00:27:12,567 and for her to tell me an awful lot more about Sid. 636 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:14,300 [ TERMINAL PLAYING] 637 00:27:19,433 --> 00:27:22,500 GEORGE: The fact that Sid's mother killed herself 638 00:27:22,533 --> 00:27:24,567 the same year that the Sex Pistols re-formed 639 00:27:26,467 --> 00:27:28,267 is probably a coincidence. 640 00:27:28,300 --> 00:27:30,533 ALAN: You know, we all woke up one morning 641 00:27:30,567 --> 00:27:32,433 and we had a letter in the post. 642 00:27:32,467 --> 00:27:34,433 David Ross, Sid's cousin had a letter 643 00:27:34,467 --> 00:27:36,500 that had a check in it for ten grand 644 00:27:36,533 --> 00:27:38,300 to organize a funeral. 645 00:27:38,333 --> 00:27:41,467 Whether she was carrying some kind of guilt over the years, 646 00:27:41,500 --> 00:27:45,733 um, regarding her role, in his death or not, 647 00:27:45,767 --> 00:27:47,400 is very debatable. 648 00:27:47,433 --> 00:27:50,667 And my letter, basically, was very down, 649 00:27:50,700 --> 00:27:52,467 did not say anything final. 650 00:27:52,500 --> 00:27:54,667 Didn't say she'd done what she'd done. 651 00:27:54,700 --> 00:27:56,600 But was very, very down. 652 00:27:56,633 --> 00:27:59,333 And then at the bottom end of it, it kind of said to me, 653 00:27:59,367 --> 00:28:02,800 "Do me a favor and make sure that one day the world knows 654 00:28:02,833 --> 00:28:06,133 that whatever else my son was, he was not a murderer." 655 00:28:06,167 --> 00:28:08,133 [ FAST TRACK TO HELL PLAYING] 656 00:28:08,167 --> 00:28:10,333 * Out in the streets 657 00:28:10,367 --> 00:28:12,667 * It's down to you and me 658 00:28:12,700 --> 00:28:14,300 * It's a jungle 659 00:28:15,767 --> 00:28:18,400 * I'm on a fast track to hell 660 00:28:21,267 --> 00:28:23,200 So this is the house where Nancy grew up. 661 00:28:23,700 --> 00:28:25,233 Behind me. 662 00:28:25,267 --> 00:28:27,600 Uh, as you can see it's quite a lovely place, 663 00:28:27,633 --> 00:28:29,167 which is a bit of a big difference 664 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,100 between the dreary lane flat 665 00:28:31,133 --> 00:28:34,633 where Sid and his mother spent their early years together. 666 00:28:34,667 --> 00:28:37,233 There was only cold water there, and no warmth. 667 00:28:37,667 --> 00:28:39,400 Uh, 668 00:28:39,433 --> 00:28:41,767 they're poles apart, yet they're linked forever. 669 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:46,433 Nancy in Philadelphia was an upper middle class, 670 00:28:47,300 --> 00:28:51,400 Jewish, rock and roll fanatic. 671 00:28:51,433 --> 00:28:54,500 STEVE: He had that thing, he was charming, witty. 672 00:28:54,533 --> 00:28:56,200 He was full of wonder. 673 00:28:56,233 --> 00:28:57,800 People really were in tune with him. 674 00:28:57,833 --> 00:29:01,233 And he had charisma for days and days and days. 675 00:29:01,267 --> 00:29:05,100 She was one of the super-groupies 676 00:29:05,133 --> 00:29:08,233 of Philadelphia at that time. 677 00:29:08,267 --> 00:29:10,467 And they were the people who knew Aerosmith 678 00:29:10,500 --> 00:29:12,233 and stuff like that. 679 00:29:12,267 --> 00:29:14,200 They could get you backstage. 680 00:29:14,233 --> 00:29:15,767 I just genuinely liked him. 681 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,767 I mean, there was just something about John. 682 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:19,600 Nothing pretentious. 683 00:29:19,633 --> 00:29:21,700 I mean, he would not have been one of my friends if it'd been the case. 684 00:29:21,733 --> 00:29:24,133 I mean, there were a lot of punk hangers on 685 00:29:24,167 --> 00:29:26,767 I really didn't give tosses about, to be honest with you. 686 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,367 I didn't really hang out with them at all. 687 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,330 VIVIANE: You know, Sid was really clever. 688 00:29:30,670 --> 00:29:31,100 He had a great brain 689 00:29:31,133 --> 00:29:33,167 and the way he wore Nazi insignia 690 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,800 and Swastikas was completely to dilute the meaning of it. 691 00:29:36,833 --> 00:29:39,400 You know, and people never got that about him. 692 00:29:39,433 --> 00:29:42,167 He was clever and he understood concept. 693 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,133 [STATIC] 694 00:29:45,533 --> 00:29:47,700 SID: Well, I'm not stupid, you know, 695 00:29:47,733 --> 00:29:49,733 and this is why I fool people. 696 00:29:49,767 --> 00:29:51,767 I act like a complete dummy you know. 697 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,267 "Oh, Sid Vicious, duh!" 698 00:29:54,300 --> 00:29:57,567 But in actual fact, they underestimate me so much 699 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:01,233 that they find out that I fooled them completely. 700 00:30:01,267 --> 00:30:02,267 [STATIC] 701 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,300 When I first met John Beverly, 702 00:30:08,333 --> 00:30:11,467 yes, I could see him living a long and full life. 703 00:30:11,500 --> 00:30:13,400 When Beverly became Vicious, 704 00:30:13,433 --> 00:30:16,500 you knew that he was not going to make 22. 705 00:30:16,533 --> 00:30:19,670 EDWARD: And, I went to this audition, 706 00:30:19,100 --> 00:30:21,767 and we were all sitting in the stalls, 707 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,133 you know, waiting for stuff to happen. 708 00:30:24,167 --> 00:30:28,767 And, um, Sid and Nancy entered. 709 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,670 So, there was a bit of a stir, naturally. 710 00:30:31,100 --> 00:30:33,200 "Oh, Sid, Sid and Nancy." 711 00:30:33,233 --> 00:30:36,700 And then Sid, at one point, turned round and said, 712 00:30:36,733 --> 00:30:40,267 "Why don't you lot all fuck off." 713 00:30:40,300 --> 00:30:43,733 And one of the auditioners said, "Bollocks." 714 00:30:43,767 --> 00:30:46,267 Well, you know, as he would, as he would. 715 00:30:46,300 --> 00:30:48,100 And he suddenly went into a fury. 716 00:30:48,133 --> 00:30:50,200 He said, "What, you say, 'Bollocks' to me." 717 00:30:50,233 --> 00:30:52,800 And he got out of his, uh, stupor, 718 00:30:52,833 --> 00:30:55,167 and charged back, 719 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,133 and started laying into this bloke. 720 00:30:57,167 --> 00:30:58,500 So, there was this bloke 721 00:30:58,533 --> 00:31:01,267 being attacked by presumably his hero, 722 00:31:01,300 --> 00:31:04,330 trying to fend him off. 723 00:31:04,670 --> 00:31:06,233 About half an hour later, him and this bloke 724 00:31:06,267 --> 00:31:09,670 were sitting next to each other, chatting quite friendly. 725 00:31:09,100 --> 00:31:10,467 And Sid said, 726 00:31:10,500 --> 00:31:14,567 "Yeah, it's a good way to make friends by having a fight." 727 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,833 And you know, they were the best of buddies by then. 728 00:31:16,867 --> 00:31:20,233 When Sid and I used to hang out, we used to go out in the evenings. 729 00:31:20,267 --> 00:31:23,167 We often ended up in physical trouble and fights. 730 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,833 That was before he was called Sid Vicious. 731 00:31:26,867 --> 00:31:29,100 And it was this sort of escalation of, 732 00:31:29,133 --> 00:31:30,233 "Oh, we've come home again 733 00:31:30,267 --> 00:31:31,767 "and Sid's got into trouble again." 734 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:33,233 He liked to fight. 735 00:31:33,267 --> 00:31:35,133 He couldn't have one. He couldn't fight sleep. 736 00:31:35,167 --> 00:31:41,267 But he... [LAUGHING] He gave that, you know, out. 737 00:31:41,300 --> 00:31:42,733 It's not that he was particularly aggressive, 738 00:31:42,767 --> 00:31:45,167 but he wouldn't take any nonsense from anyone. 739 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,567 When someone says something stupid, you just tell them it's stupid. 740 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:49,000 Actually, it got to the point 741 00:31:49,330 --> 00:31:50,767 where he'd take his belt off and wrap it round his hand 742 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:52,833 and just whack people with the buckle. 743 00:31:52,867 --> 00:31:54,367 I don't know where that came from 744 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,100 'cause he wasn't actually a physically aggressive guy. 745 00:31:56,133 --> 00:31:57,567 We're sitting in the Speakeasy 746 00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:59,733 and Paul Weller is coming in with his wife. 747 00:31:59,767 --> 00:32:02,467 If Sid had just waited a second and asked me, 748 00:32:02,500 --> 00:32:06,100 I would have told him that Paul Weller can well look after himself. 749 00:32:06,133 --> 00:32:07,600 His dad John was an ex-boxer and all that. 750 00:32:07,633 --> 00:32:11,670 Sid's gone out like a lunatic with the boots flying. 751 00:32:11,100 --> 00:32:13,400 Paul Weller's cracked him a few punches. 752 00:32:13,433 --> 00:32:16,267 But he had a glass in his hand, at the time, Paul, 753 00:32:16,300 --> 00:32:18,133 and it cut Sid on the face. 754 00:32:19,700 --> 00:32:22,400 There was a bit of screaming, I jumped in between them. 755 00:32:22,433 --> 00:32:24,600 And Sid's there, he's cut, he's got a glass in his face. 756 00:32:24,633 --> 00:32:27,667 And Paul and his wife, I apologized to them and they went off. 757 00:32:27,700 --> 00:32:29,700 And I said, "Sid, why did you attack him like that?" 758 00:32:29,733 --> 00:32:33,600 He said, "Because he said that we nicked In The City, 759 00:32:33,633 --> 00:32:35,467 and Holidays In The Sun." 760 00:32:35,500 --> 00:32:38,833 I said, "Well, you did." [LAUGHING] 761 00:32:38,867 --> 00:32:41,600 MARK: One night I went round and saw Sid, 762 00:32:41,633 --> 00:32:45,367 and there was a cat that was in the flat. 763 00:32:46,500 --> 00:32:48,433 And, for no 764 00:32:50,500 --> 00:32:52,367 reason he decided, 765 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:54,800 to put a noose around the cat 766 00:32:57,733 --> 00:32:58,733 and hang it up, 767 00:33:01,100 --> 00:33:02,233 in front of me. 768 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:04,400 And, 769 00:33:06,700 --> 00:33:08,100 it didn't last long, 770 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:10,500 as far as 771 00:33:10,533 --> 00:33:13,533 ticks on the clock, but it seemed like an eternity. 772 00:33:14,533 --> 00:33:15,533 And... 773 00:33:16,433 --> 00:33:18,000 The cat was struggling, 774 00:33:19,667 --> 00:33:20,667 and... 775 00:33:23,433 --> 00:33:26,567 Tried to get away, but obviously couldn't. 776 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:28,200 It was whining. 777 00:33:28,233 --> 00:33:31,533 It was absolutely fighting to get away. 778 00:33:31,567 --> 00:33:33,567 And just before 779 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,800 it's passed away, 780 00:33:35,833 --> 00:33:38,330 it urinated and defecated 781 00:33:39,333 --> 00:33:40,733 right on his feet. 782 00:33:40,767 --> 00:33:46,330 And Sid was holding it in front of me. 783 00:33:47,367 --> 00:33:51,133 I utterly regret not stopping him doing that. 784 00:33:53,233 --> 00:33:56,300 Why he did that, I don't know. 785 00:33:56,333 --> 00:34:00,400 Um, I have no idea. 786 00:34:00,433 --> 00:34:04,467 It's the most disgusting thing that I've ever seen in my life. 787 00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:08,300 And if I could have my life all over again... 788 00:34:08,333 --> 00:34:12,500 That is the biggest regret... I would stop him from doing that. 789 00:34:12,533 --> 00:34:15,200 It was horrible. 790 00:34:15,233 --> 00:34:19,330 Finally put the cat in a plastic bag, 791 00:34:20,300 --> 00:34:22,633 and took it to the bin downstairs. 792 00:34:22,667 --> 00:34:24,433 It was horrible. 793 00:34:24,467 --> 00:34:26,233 He was always like that. 794 00:34:26,267 --> 00:34:28,300 He just took everything to the nth degree 795 00:34:28,333 --> 00:34:30,133 and he didn't care where it took him. 796 00:34:30,167 --> 00:34:33,300 I guess he knew that one day the person he hit, or the thing he did 797 00:34:33,333 --> 00:34:35,267 would be the end. 798 00:34:35,300 --> 00:34:37,667 He was willing to take it to the edge, he was willing to take it that far. 799 00:34:37,700 --> 00:34:39,367 I don't know why or where that came from. 800 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:40,800 But he was like that always. 801 00:34:40,833 --> 00:34:43,100 He was the guy that never saw 802 00:34:43,133 --> 00:34:44,633 a red light, as they say. 803 00:34:45,700 --> 00:34:47,400 Everything was always green. 804 00:34:49,670 --> 00:34:51,567 MAN: However, dangerous? However, dangerous. 805 00:34:53,333 --> 00:34:56,267 Do you feel if he had never met you, he might be alive today? 806 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:02,167 I don't know. 807 00:35:02,633 --> 00:35:03,800 I don't know. 808 00:35:04,500 --> 00:35:05,800 Heck, you know. 809 00:35:05,833 --> 00:35:08,733 You might get run over by a car. I don't know. 810 00:35:08,767 --> 00:35:13,767 But Sid, I suppose, would, at the very best, be called... 811 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,300 Uh, could be called amoral. 812 00:35:16,333 --> 00:35:21,267 He just didn't really have a concept of what was good and what was bad. 813 00:35:21,300 --> 00:35:23,800 Certainly not for him, but for other people as well. 814 00:35:23,833 --> 00:35:26,700 Sid especially didn't know who himself was, anyway, 815 00:35:26,733 --> 00:35:28,333 'cause he was too young. 816 00:35:28,367 --> 00:35:32,267 I think the thing about Sid and his upbringing, 817 00:35:32,300 --> 00:35:34,800 he just wanted someone to love. 818 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,333 You know, seems to be fairly obvious. 819 00:35:38,367 --> 00:35:40,233 No father figure, you know, 820 00:35:40,267 --> 00:35:42,267 moved around from pillar to post. 821 00:35:42,300 --> 00:35:46,330 Mama being the Bohemian, never settled. 822 00:35:46,670 --> 00:35:49,200 You know, people like that tend to make a fool of themselves 823 00:35:49,233 --> 00:35:51,667 or dress up strange. 824 00:35:51,700 --> 00:35:54,330 Anything to get attention and be liked. 825 00:35:54,670 --> 00:35:56,330 When I met Anne for the first time, 826 00:35:56,670 --> 00:35:59,167 it was almost like, "Ah, that's the explanation." 827 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,133 Beverly couldn't look after herself, let alone look after Sid. 828 00:36:02,167 --> 00:36:05,267 I never liked her. I mean, it was quite clear to me 829 00:36:05,300 --> 00:36:07,300 where his problems lay and it was with her. 830 00:36:07,333 --> 00:36:10,200 I always felt there was a bit of an agenda there. 831 00:36:10,233 --> 00:36:14,267 Well, ugh, kill me for thinking that, but I did. 832 00:36:14,300 --> 00:36:15,833 PETER: What I know about Beverly... 833 00:36:15,867 --> 00:36:19,267 What Sid told me was, you know, they used to go to Morocco 834 00:36:19,300 --> 00:36:21,670 and then they would go back into Spain. 835 00:36:21,100 --> 00:36:23,167 And she used to sort of stuff, 836 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:26,800 um, hash, blocks of hash down Sid's trousers. 837 00:36:26,833 --> 00:36:28,733 I mean, if you got caught in Spain at that time 838 00:36:28,767 --> 00:36:30,600 with even a joint under Franco, 839 00:36:30,633 --> 00:36:32,767 you could go to prison, for, you know, 14 years. 840 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:34,800 So, it was pretty dangerous, but probably lucrative. 841 00:36:34,833 --> 00:36:36,800 Yeah, if we went around to Sid's flat, 842 00:36:36,833 --> 00:36:39,330 you know, the high rise where Anne lived, 843 00:36:39,670 --> 00:36:40,633 we could just do drugs in front of her 844 00:36:40,667 --> 00:36:42,300 whatever way we wanted. 845 00:36:42,333 --> 00:36:45,133 Beverly was the type of person that if she arrived somewhere, 846 00:36:45,167 --> 00:36:47,500 it'd be like... Sid'll be like, "Oh, God, it's my mom. 847 00:36:47,533 --> 00:36:50,300 "Let's hide, you know, hope she doesn't see us." 848 00:36:50,333 --> 00:36:53,467 So, I don't think there was any particularly close bond there. 849 00:36:53,500 --> 00:36:56,333 I remember when Sid and I went to see The Pistols at The Screen On The Green. 850 00:36:56,367 --> 00:36:58,367 And I had this little vintage dress on 851 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,333 that Sid had sort of cut really short and ripped up, made it look fantastic. 852 00:37:01,367 --> 00:37:04,333 I mean, you know, he was a great girlie mate in many ways. 853 00:37:04,367 --> 00:37:06,330 And we watched the Pistols, and we thought, "Oh." 854 00:37:06,670 --> 00:37:07,367 We said to each other, "What's the point, 855 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:08,733 "what's the point of carrying on. 856 00:37:08,767 --> 00:37:10,700 "They say all, they're everything we want to be. 857 00:37:10,733 --> 00:37:12,233 "There's no point being in a band." 858 00:37:12,267 --> 00:37:14,233 We just felt like giving up at the end of that gig. 859 00:37:14,267 --> 00:37:15,433 It was such a fantastic show. 860 00:37:15,467 --> 00:37:18,300 GLEN: When did Sid become one of our number one fans? 861 00:37:18,333 --> 00:37:20,367 I don't know that he did or not. 862 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,400 I think he was just number one hanging round after John. 863 00:37:23,433 --> 00:37:25,200 I think that was a bit of a double act 864 00:37:25,233 --> 00:37:28,567 and then John was busy doing something else and Sid wasn't. 865 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:30,233 So... 866 00:37:30,267 --> 00:37:32,733 There was nothing else going on in London at that time. 867 00:37:32,767 --> 00:37:34,600 So, we were where the action was. 868 00:37:34,633 --> 00:37:37,233 So, he came and shared his mayhem. 869 00:37:37,267 --> 00:37:40,300 It is interesting to me that John did bring Sid in 870 00:37:40,333 --> 00:37:43,800 to, like, supposedly be his ally in the band and then goes... 871 00:37:43,833 --> 00:37:47,500 But actually, instantly, he realized that he was gonna overshadow John. 872 00:37:47,533 --> 00:37:49,670 Because of the way he looked, the way he was. 873 00:38:00,233 --> 00:38:02,267 The styles of people like 874 00:38:02,300 --> 00:38:04,200 Fleetwood Mac, Eagles, and Led Zeppelin 875 00:38:04,233 --> 00:38:06,500 were a million miles away from this street kid. 876 00:38:06,533 --> 00:38:08,333 So, he needed to go back to the clubs 877 00:38:08,367 --> 00:38:11,800 and I think that's why some scuzzy little bar like CBGB's 878 00:38:11,833 --> 00:38:14,500 was where you could create a brand new scene. 879 00:38:14,533 --> 00:38:17,167 Dory Hamilton, and this girl Sharon, Honi O'Rourke, 880 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:18,800 who went on to be my bass player, 881 00:38:18,833 --> 00:38:20,533 and Nancy, they were all friends. 882 00:38:20,567 --> 00:38:24,670 You know, there were different kind of groupies in the scene. 883 00:38:24,100 --> 00:38:28,833 There were groupies who just wanted to hang out with famous people 884 00:38:28,867 --> 00:38:32,467 or were just kind of nice girls who you could have sex with 885 00:38:32,500 --> 00:38:34,300 or, like, friendly. 886 00:38:34,333 --> 00:38:36,800 But then you had the Nancy type. 887 00:38:36,833 --> 00:38:39,767 She wanted to marry a rockstar and be a rockstar's wife. 888 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:41,733 But usually girls like that 889 00:38:41,767 --> 00:38:44,233 hook-up with a boyfriend pretty quickly. 890 00:38:44,267 --> 00:38:46,330 Nancy didn't have a boyfriend. 891 00:38:46,670 --> 00:38:48,800 Because no one could stand being with her for more than one evening. 892 00:38:48,833 --> 00:38:51,300 She was just really repulsive. 893 00:38:51,333 --> 00:38:53,300 KEITH: Nancy came on the scene, right, 894 00:38:53,333 --> 00:38:55,567 and, like, she could've been 18, 895 00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:57,500 she might've been 20, I don't know. 896 00:38:57,533 --> 00:38:59,167 But, fuck, she's like, 897 00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:00,833 so old, you know. 898 00:39:00,867 --> 00:39:03,500 I just mean, like, 899 00:39:03,533 --> 00:39:07,200 she's just seen too much, she's seen so much. 900 00:39:07,233 --> 00:39:09,700 The other people who were very on to the scene, 901 00:39:09,733 --> 00:39:15,267 like Gill Hagenson, the bartenders at Max's and CBGB's and things, 902 00:39:15,300 --> 00:39:17,533 all kind of said, "Stay away from her." 903 00:39:17,567 --> 00:39:20,133 She was a drug dealer and she was a prostitute. 904 00:39:20,167 --> 00:39:21,567 And she was really bad news. 905 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:24,100 And when someone is called "really bad news," 906 00:39:24,133 --> 00:39:26,367 when you have Dee Dee Ramone's carny 907 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,167 going around breaking bottles over people's heads, 908 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:30,633 that's really bad news. 909 00:39:30,667 --> 00:39:33,333 Right, I mean, I thought she was like 27, you know. 910 00:39:33,367 --> 00:39:36,800 Anyway, and young, I mean, that's what... "She was only 27." 911 00:39:36,833 --> 00:39:39,400 So there you go, I didn't even know she was 20! 912 00:39:39,433 --> 00:39:41,633 This woman had years of experience, 913 00:39:41,667 --> 00:39:44,433 at manipulation, intimidation, 914 00:39:44,467 --> 00:39:48,700 and, of course, you fuck everybody as well. 915 00:39:48,733 --> 00:39:51,467 You know, God love her... 916 00:39:51,500 --> 00:39:53,167 If she couldn't get it free, she'd have sex. 917 00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,633 She asked me on numerous occasions. 918 00:39:55,667 --> 00:39:57,533 It's how Nancy operated. 919 00:39:57,567 --> 00:40:00,667 She would go get the drugs so she could get laid. 920 00:40:00,700 --> 00:40:02,433 The first time I met Nancy, 921 00:40:02,467 --> 00:40:04,267 she was being shagged in the toilet 922 00:40:05,667 --> 00:40:06,667 by somebody. 923 00:40:07,667 --> 00:40:09,800 [LAUGHING] Not Sid, no. 924 00:40:10,533 --> 00:40:11,700 [LAUGHING] 925 00:40:11,733 --> 00:40:14,600 But someone very close to him . [LAUGHING] 926 00:40:14,633 --> 00:40:16,500 [ROCK MUSIC PLAYING] 927 00:40:23,533 --> 00:40:26,433 DON: Before The Heartbreakers, Nancy came over, 928 00:40:26,467 --> 00:40:27,733 at The Roxy in London. 929 00:40:27,767 --> 00:40:30,167 It was speed in the toilets upstairs 930 00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,467 and weed in the basement downstairs. 931 00:40:32,500 --> 00:40:35,167 And as I said before, we had beer to wash it down. 932 00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:39,133 You know, in those days you could have had a wheelbarrow load of cocaine, 933 00:40:39,167 --> 00:40:40,800 rock-on, you were doing really well. 934 00:40:40,833 --> 00:40:42,700 You had that much heroin, 935 00:40:42,733 --> 00:40:44,670 the stigma that that carried. 936 00:40:44,100 --> 00:40:45,400 You know, people were like, "Whoa." 937 00:40:45,433 --> 00:40:46,633 You know, didn't wanna know. 938 00:40:46,667 --> 00:40:48,367 [ROCK BAND PLAYING] 939 00:40:56,133 --> 00:40:58,767 It wasn't street, it was pseudo-glamourous. 940 00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:02,300 New York infiltrated the London punk scene and brought 941 00:41:02,333 --> 00:41:04,700 one of the worst aspects of New York with it. 942 00:41:11,167 --> 00:41:13,500 Why on earth, people think 943 00:41:14,467 --> 00:41:16,667 this band, The Heartbreakers, 944 00:41:16,700 --> 00:41:18,467 Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan, 945 00:41:18,500 --> 00:41:20,467 who couldn't tie their shoes in the morning, 946 00:41:20,500 --> 00:41:23,533 could orchestrate the downfall 947 00:41:23,567 --> 00:41:26,300 of British youth by importing heroin 948 00:41:26,333 --> 00:41:29,670 into the British isles is beyond me. 949 00:41:29,100 --> 00:41:32,367 And no one noticed Keith Moon and Keith Richards, 950 00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:34,367 in and out of hospitals... 951 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:37,100 They were English and they were stoned junkies, 952 00:41:37,133 --> 00:41:38,733 real stoned junkies in England. 953 00:41:46,500 --> 00:41:48,330 GLEN: You know, to me The Heartbreakers 954 00:41:48,670 --> 00:41:49,800 would be regarded the best punk band. 955 00:41:49,833 --> 00:41:51,400 There was something about them 956 00:41:51,433 --> 00:41:54,567 like this cultural kind of arrogance, good song, look great. 957 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:56,167 And we watched them, totally gobsmacked. 958 00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:58,330 And then they came down into the audience 959 00:41:58,670 --> 00:42:00,633 to say hello after they'd done their 20-minutes. 960 00:42:01,500 --> 00:42:03,700 And I said to Jerry Nolan, 961 00:42:03,733 --> 00:42:05,767 "I really like that song Chinese Rock. 962 00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:07,467 "What's that all about then?" 963 00:42:07,500 --> 00:42:09,167 He looks at me like I was an idiot 964 00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:10,433 and he says, "Heroin, boy." 965 00:42:10,467 --> 00:42:12,167 Oh, right. 966 00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:17,467 Hadn't even come into anybody's consciousness until then. 967 00:42:17,500 --> 00:42:20,100 By the time The Heatbreakers and Nancy arrived, 968 00:42:20,133 --> 00:42:23,267 it was the new thing, you know, they almost made it cool. 969 00:42:23,300 --> 00:42:24,500 STEVE: Johnny and Jerry needed 970 00:42:24,533 --> 00:42:26,133 to find someone they could hang out with. 971 00:42:26,167 --> 00:42:28,200 It was an English kid, the first English kid. 972 00:42:28,233 --> 00:42:29,533 This guy is cool. 973 00:42:29,567 --> 00:42:31,433 Now, it's in the nature, 974 00:42:31,467 --> 00:42:33,767 the unfortunate nature of a junkie 975 00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:37,300 to not want to be alone in their, 976 00:42:37,333 --> 00:42:38,667 uh, addiction. 977 00:42:38,700 --> 00:42:40,600 I'm in their camp now. I'm probably the first kid 978 00:42:40,633 --> 00:42:42,367 who did smack with these guys from New York. 979 00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:44,670 'Cause they don't speed. 980 00:42:44,100 --> 00:42:47,367 There's no doubt, that they turned a lot of people onto heroin. 981 00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:50,533 And that really did have a major impact on the Punk rock scene 982 00:42:50,567 --> 00:42:54,670 and almost wiped out the first chapter of it. 983 00:42:54,100 --> 00:42:56,467 And he was like rolling up his leg every now and again 984 00:42:56,500 --> 00:42:59,100 and he was showing everybody all his needle marks. 985 00:42:59,133 --> 00:43:00,733 He says, "Oh, God. 986 00:43:00,767 --> 00:43:04,167 "This foot has gone numb now, I can't use this foot anymore." 987 00:43:07,167 --> 00:43:12,467 And his whole body was absolutely covered with marks. 988 00:43:12,500 --> 00:43:16,133 KRIS: Sid developed his persona when he became a Pistol. 989 00:43:16,167 --> 00:43:17,800 I know the image 990 00:43:17,833 --> 00:43:20,567 and the requirements of living up to it. 991 00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:22,233 Did go to his head sometimes. 992 00:43:22,267 --> 00:43:25,330 LEEE: The name Sid Vicious was the most amazing 993 00:43:25,670 --> 00:43:26,200 creation in the world. 994 00:43:26,233 --> 00:43:28,670 It's like Hollywood stars, 995 00:43:28,100 --> 00:43:29,567 you know, Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, 996 00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:31,400 those people didn't know how to deal with 997 00:43:31,433 --> 00:43:34,300 who they suddenly had to be. 998 00:43:34,333 --> 00:43:35,733 And had to be all the time. 999 00:43:35,767 --> 00:43:38,267 They didn't get to 1000 00:43:38,300 --> 00:43:40,533 only be it when the cameras were on 1001 00:43:40,567 --> 00:43:44,733 or only till someone said, "Now you can go home now, 1002 00:43:44,767 --> 00:43:46,670 "and just be yourself." 1003 00:43:46,100 --> 00:43:48,267 KRIS: But this was exacerbated by drugs, 1004 00:43:48,300 --> 00:43:52,433 which stoked, you know, his reasoning, innocence, 1005 00:43:52,467 --> 00:43:55,200 all went out the window and he became Sid Vicious. 1006 00:43:55,233 --> 00:43:56,600 [ PRETTY DOPE FIEND PLAYING] 1007 00:43:56,633 --> 00:43:58,700 * Lookin' for A pretty dope fiend * 1008 00:43:59,867 --> 00:44:01,600 And I remember one day, 1009 00:44:01,633 --> 00:44:03,667 she was with me at Honi O'Rourke's placed at the Chelsea Hotel. 1010 00:44:03,700 --> 00:44:06,567 And she says, "Wow, guys, you know, 1011 00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:08,400 "I'm going to London, man. 1012 00:44:08,433 --> 00:44:11,100 "'Cause The Heartbreakers are gonna be playing there." 1013 00:44:14,167 --> 00:44:17,667 Nancy turned up in London 1014 00:44:17,700 --> 00:44:21,300 when she did, because she had a thing for Jerry Nolan. 1015 00:44:21,333 --> 00:44:22,767 KRIS: The story is with a guitar, 1016 00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,670 but I don't know why she'd be giving Jerry a guitar 1017 00:44:25,100 --> 00:44:26,567 because he was a drummer. 1018 00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:27,633 Nolan was a drummer. 1019 00:44:27,667 --> 00:44:30,200 This really beautiful pink, left-handed 1020 00:44:30,233 --> 00:44:33,633 Fender Esquire with all the knobs on it were offset dice. 1021 00:44:33,667 --> 00:44:36,733 Really flash kind of... Not very punk, but... 1022 00:44:36,767 --> 00:44:38,833 He couldn't play it, but, um... 1023 00:44:38,867 --> 00:44:40,467 She brought it over for him. "Hey..." 1024 00:44:40,500 --> 00:44:43,633 But he knew she was bad news, just gave her the bum's rush. 1025 00:44:43,667 --> 00:44:46,400 I used to go back to The Heartbreakers' flat quite a lot. 1026 00:44:46,433 --> 00:44:47,700 Anyway, we walked in, 1027 00:44:47,733 --> 00:44:50,833 and there was just this incredibly loud woman there. 1028 00:44:50,867 --> 00:44:53,167 Neil said it was my birthday 1029 00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,567 and she just started going about her birthday. 1030 00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:58,167 Everyone was just zonked out on smack. 1031 00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:01,567 And we'd sort of turn the lights out and sort of sitting down. 1032 00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:04,367 And suddenly there's this presence in the room. 1033 00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:06,233 Here's Jerry Nolan. 1034 00:45:06,267 --> 00:45:09,100 And fully-clothed, mohair jumper, the whole lot. 1035 00:45:09,133 --> 00:45:10,467 And he got into bed beside me. 1036 00:45:10,500 --> 00:45:12,833 So, I was stuck in the middle of Neil and Jerry. 1037 00:45:12,867 --> 00:45:15,833 And he just said that he wasn't being weird or anything, 1038 00:45:15,867 --> 00:45:17,267 but, you know, he was really... 1039 00:45:17,300 --> 00:45:19,667 There was no way he was gonna be on his own, 1040 00:45:19,700 --> 00:45:21,300 with Nancy on the loose. 1041 00:45:21,333 --> 00:45:23,367 She came up to me, Nancy, 1042 00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:26,333 came up, from behind, put her hand on my shoulder, 1043 00:45:26,367 --> 00:45:28,330 and said, "Hi, where's Jerry?" 1044 00:45:28,670 --> 00:45:29,767 First words out of her mouth. 1045 00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:31,400 And I said, "You will not see Jerry, 1046 00:45:31,433 --> 00:45:32,767 "I won't let you near Jerry. 1047 00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,133 "If I have to lock Jerry up in a room 1048 00:45:35,167 --> 00:45:37,600 "and not let him out of it, I won't let you near Jerry. 1049 00:45:37,633 --> 00:45:39,133 "Do you understand?" 1050 00:45:39,167 --> 00:45:41,167 And she just said, "Oh, okay," and wandered away. 1051 00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:42,633 That was it. 1052 00:45:42,667 --> 00:45:44,133 I think my first introduction 1053 00:45:44,167 --> 00:45:47,767 to Nancy was hearing this neighing, whining sound 1054 00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,367 from the background, over my dub records I was playing. 1055 00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:51,533 'Cause she was loud. 1056 00:45:51,567 --> 00:45:53,633 See, Jerry very much used her. 1057 00:45:53,667 --> 00:45:54,667 Jerry... 1058 00:45:56,200 --> 00:46:00,133 Jerry... If someone could supply Jerry with drugs, 1059 00:46:00,167 --> 00:46:02,467 or with money or with a place to stay, 1060 00:46:02,500 --> 00:46:06,300 or a ride to the bar, 1061 00:46:06,333 --> 00:46:08,133 they were his girlfriend. 1062 00:46:08,167 --> 00:46:09,733 And because obviously no one knew her, 1063 00:46:09,767 --> 00:46:12,467 no one knew this story was a whole heap of lies. 1064 00:46:12,500 --> 00:46:14,600 What it did is it opened a lot of doors for her, 1065 00:46:14,633 --> 00:46:17,100 got her into McLaren Westwood empire. 1066 00:46:17,133 --> 00:46:19,400 He got her into the Speakeasy. 1067 00:46:19,433 --> 00:46:21,400 We'd go to the Roxy as a kind of, 1068 00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:24,433 um, watering hole. 1069 00:46:24,467 --> 00:46:27,467 And there's this girl staggering about with a very high voice. 1070 00:46:28,367 --> 00:46:29,200 Um... 1071 00:46:30,467 --> 00:46:32,100 There were a couple of Heartbreakers there 1072 00:46:32,133 --> 00:46:33,733 and they were avoiding her like the plague. 1073 00:46:33,767 --> 00:46:36,330 She was going around asking everyone for a cigarette. 1074 00:46:36,670 --> 00:46:37,533 And she spotted Sid. 1075 00:46:37,567 --> 00:46:40,833 And made a beeline. And that was it. 1076 00:46:40,867 --> 00:46:43,300 He started talking to her. She was all over him. 1077 00:46:54,267 --> 00:46:56,800 We'd never met American women before. 1078 00:46:58,300 --> 00:47:02,567 And so, initially, it was quite a giggle. 1079 00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:05,100 Saw her on the arm of Sid 1080 00:47:05,133 --> 00:47:06,367 and I thought, 1081 00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:10,367 "Oh, my God, if there were ever a perfect target 1082 00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:12,400 for Nancy Spungen." 1083 00:47:12,433 --> 00:47:16,670 Sid was very innocent, gullible, whatever you wanna call it, naive. 1084 00:47:16,100 --> 00:47:17,533 She probably blew him off his feet. 1085 00:47:23,100 --> 00:47:26,400 What amazes me, is that how over the years, 1086 00:47:26,433 --> 00:47:29,233 it's become a Romeo and Juliet story. 1087 00:47:29,267 --> 00:47:31,733 And it's been kinda romanticized. 1088 00:47:31,767 --> 00:47:34,133 But he really loved this person. 1089 00:47:34,167 --> 00:47:35,833 He loved her more than he loved his music. 1090 00:47:35,867 --> 00:47:37,633 VIVIANE: Bit by bit, as he got together with Nancy, 1091 00:47:37,667 --> 00:47:40,200 and then he became, you know, very caring 1092 00:47:40,233 --> 00:47:43,330 and caught up in her world and trying to make her happy. 1093 00:47:43,670 --> 00:47:44,467 ALAN: Whispering in his ear, 1094 00:47:44,500 --> 00:47:46,367 she taught him things no one had ever taught him 1095 00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:47,500 and she showed him a bit of love. 1096 00:47:47,533 --> 00:47:48,733 They were sensitive people 1097 00:47:48,767 --> 00:47:50,833 and they seemed to get along very well. 1098 00:47:50,867 --> 00:47:53,567 In fact, they were always holding one another in my office. 1099 00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:54,833 You sort of sense 1100 00:47:54,867 --> 00:47:57,167 that there was a great affection between them. 1101 00:47:57,200 --> 00:47:59,300 Maybe they were right for each other. 1102 00:47:59,333 --> 00:48:01,167 Maybe, whatever it is 1103 00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:02,767 she brought to the table, he needed. 1104 00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:04,333 Sid was really shy. 1105 00:48:04,367 --> 00:48:05,833 He was really shy with girls. 1106 00:48:05,867 --> 00:48:08,367 I never ever saw him chat up a girl. 1107 00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:10,670 I mean, a girl would have to come to Sid. 1108 00:48:10,100 --> 00:48:11,367 He wasn't interested in sex. 1109 00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:13,167 So if girls, they would throw themselves at him, 1110 00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:15,200 and he wasn't interested. 1111 00:48:15,233 --> 00:48:19,267 He was quite possibly a virgin before he met Nancy. 1112 00:48:19,300 --> 00:48:22,367 He needed a strong, forward woman 1113 00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,367 to, you know, to go to bed with him. 1114 00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:26,330 Otherwise, he would never make the move. 1115 00:48:26,670 --> 00:48:27,267 And she made the move. 1116 00:48:27,300 --> 00:48:29,533 She would really, sort of like, bolster his ego. 1117 00:48:29,567 --> 00:48:31,733 In a way that I thought was really 1118 00:48:31,767 --> 00:48:33,833 what you're supposed to do if you're boy and girlfriend. 1119 00:48:33,867 --> 00:48:35,767 I don't know if you saw any of the gigs, 1120 00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:38,367 but Sid was really shining out. 1121 00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:41,670 JONES: And I think, if you had that in the background, 1122 00:48:41,100 --> 00:48:43,233 then I don't think it was quite as tragic, 1123 00:48:43,267 --> 00:48:45,367 as we're all sort of being led to believe. 1124 00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:47,333 How many people loved The Beatles and hated Yoko? 1125 00:48:47,700 --> 00:48:49,670 Automatically. 1126 00:48:49,100 --> 00:48:51,767 It's like Yoko all of a sudden had power. 1127 00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:55,633 And The Beatles, and John and she was controlling John. 1128 00:48:55,667 --> 00:48:58,100 Well, maybe John wanted to be controlled. 1129 00:48:58,133 --> 00:48:59,433 Maybe John needed her. 1130 00:48:59,467 --> 00:49:02,167 When someone's in love, what can you do, you know. 1131 00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:03,567 If it's the bird or the band, 1132 00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:05,200 usually the bird wins. 1133 00:49:10,367 --> 00:49:12,133 The Pistols came to America. 1134 00:49:12,167 --> 00:49:14,600 They came to America, they came to tour. 1135 00:49:14,633 --> 00:49:16,767 By the time they announced their tour, 1136 00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:19,133 I knew I had to find a way to get on that tour. 1137 00:49:19,167 --> 00:49:21,233 STEVE: Been a long time, Sid, when he went to America 1138 00:49:21,267 --> 00:49:23,167 on the tour with the Pistols, 1139 00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:26,633 you know, he asked me and Barry to look after Nancy. 1140 00:49:26,667 --> 00:49:29,670 So we had the job of making sure she was all right. 1141 00:49:29,100 --> 00:49:30,767 He was away with The Pistols in America. 1142 00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:32,800 He'd be ringing back, "Viv, can you make sure you've seen Nancy. 1143 00:49:32,833 --> 00:49:34,333 "She says no one wants to talk to her. 1144 00:49:34,367 --> 00:49:35,533 "No one wants to speak to her. 1145 00:49:35,567 --> 00:49:37,267 "Everyone hates her. It's breaking my heart." 1146 00:49:37,300 --> 00:49:39,133 You know, he was still worried in the States, 1147 00:49:39,167 --> 00:49:41,333 because she'd be ringing him up, giving him an earful all the time. 1148 00:49:41,367 --> 00:49:44,700 No one really wanted Nancy around. 1149 00:49:44,733 --> 00:49:46,467 They told her, "Nance, it's because of Sid." 1150 00:49:46,500 --> 00:49:48,167 And she did get to that the point, 1151 00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:51,133 where she was persona non grata around most people's places. 1152 00:49:51,167 --> 00:49:54,433 We ended up setting up a party in Bob Gruen's room. 1153 00:49:54,467 --> 00:49:57,300 And, sure enough, everybody except for Johnny 1154 00:49:57,333 --> 00:49:58,733 from The Pistols showed up. 1155 00:49:59,867 --> 00:50:02,633 And Sid walked in, 1156 00:50:02,667 --> 00:50:04,633 kinda in the middle of the party, 1157 00:50:04,667 --> 00:50:07,330 with this tall blond woman. 1158 00:50:07,670 --> 00:50:09,567 We're all kinda like, "Oh, that's good for Sid. 1159 00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:12,133 "He picked up the best-looking girl from the gig." 1160 00:50:12,167 --> 00:50:13,567 One time he called up, 1161 00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,467 and was her telling how he'd been with a transvestite. 1162 00:50:16,500 --> 00:50:18,167 She had a very deep voice. 1163 00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:20,533 And Sid was pretty upfront. 1164 00:50:20,567 --> 00:50:22,467 He's like, "Well, here now. 1165 00:50:22,500 --> 00:50:26,670 "Am I gonna suck your cock or your cunt?" 1166 00:50:26,100 --> 00:50:28,833 And she said, "Cunt."[HOARSELY] 1167 00:50:28,867 --> 00:50:31,670 And everybody's like... [MIMICKING VIBRATING] 1168 00:50:31,100 --> 00:50:33,330 You know, "What the..." 1169 00:50:33,670 --> 00:50:35,767 It, you know... That's a man's voice. 1170 00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:37,467 "Sid, what are you doing over there, you know, 1171 00:50:37,500 --> 00:50:39,367 "on the road in America for the first time. 1172 00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:40,633 "We can only imagine." 1173 00:50:40,667 --> 00:50:42,133 He was telling her about 1174 00:50:42,867 --> 00:50:44,600 this transvestite 1175 00:50:44,633 --> 00:50:47,233 he'd ended up with and... 1176 00:50:47,267 --> 00:50:48,833 Her reaction was, "Well, all right, Sid, 1177 00:50:48,867 --> 00:50:51,767 as long as you're not fucking any girls, you know." 1178 00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:54,433 [LAUGHING] Which I thought was funny. 1179 00:51:00,300 --> 00:51:04,333 There were three or four real hardcore Pistols fans from LA. 1180 00:51:04,367 --> 00:51:07,670 Um, of which one is the famous Hellin Killer. 1181 00:51:07,100 --> 00:51:09,670 HELLIN: When Sid came out, 1182 00:51:09,100 --> 00:51:11,670 and he came right up to us. 1183 00:51:11,100 --> 00:51:13,667 It's like,"Look, people that I can talk to." 1184 00:51:13,700 --> 00:51:20,233 He was just like any kid like anywhere that we would run into. 1185 00:51:20,267 --> 00:51:22,100 And he came running up, and he was like, 1186 00:51:22,133 --> 00:51:24,300 "Hey," and he starts talking to us. 1187 00:51:24,333 --> 00:51:25,800 He's like, "Are you coming to the show?" 1188 00:51:25,833 --> 00:51:27,633 And I'm like, "We've got tickets." 1189 00:51:27,667 --> 00:51:29,800 And he grabbed the tickets out of my hand, 1190 00:51:29,833 --> 00:51:32,670 and he grabbed us and we went back in. 1191 00:51:32,100 --> 00:51:33,767 And he goes, "Give them their money back. 1192 00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:36,100 "They're on my guest list." 1193 00:51:36,133 --> 00:51:39,600 And that was my initial meeting of Sid. 1194 00:51:39,633 --> 00:51:42,467 So she kinda became Sid's companion 1195 00:51:42,500 --> 00:51:45,133 on tour for that last US tour. 1196 00:51:45,167 --> 00:51:49,467 I remember in Dallas, he called her 1197 00:51:49,500 --> 00:51:50,800 and he was on the phone with her. 1198 00:51:50,833 --> 00:51:54,670 He's like, "I met this girl and it's really great." 1199 00:51:54,100 --> 00:51:56,367 And I was like really terrified 1200 00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:59,400 because what I heard of Nancy and what I thought of Nancy. 1201 00:51:59,433 --> 00:52:05,133 What everyone said was just what an incredible nightmare she was. 1202 00:52:05,167 --> 00:52:09,333 "Oh, she's gonna kill you if she ever finds out about you." 1203 00:52:09,367 --> 00:52:14,267 I was just like, "Why are you even mentioning that I exist to her?" 1204 00:52:15,267 --> 00:52:17,500 It was kind of frightening to me. 1205 00:52:19,367 --> 00:52:22,233 But he was like in love with her. 1206 00:52:22,267 --> 00:52:24,367 [ UP FOR THE CRACK PLAYING] 1207 00:52:27,700 --> 00:52:29,567 * So many times I've waited 1208 00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:32,667 * Too many times sedated 1209 00:52:33,733 --> 00:52:36,733 * So many times elated 1210 00:52:36,767 --> 00:52:39,267 JOHN: The Sex Pistols were fighting with each other. 1211 00:52:39,300 --> 00:52:41,330 Malcolm was not speaking with Johnny. 1212 00:52:41,670 --> 00:52:43,600 Johnny was not speaking to Malcolm. 1213 00:52:43,633 --> 00:52:45,533 Um, nobody could find Sid. 1214 00:52:45,567 --> 00:52:48,233 He was hanging out with some groupies, taking drugs. 1215 00:52:49,300 --> 00:52:51,330 We were in the bathroom. 1216 00:52:51,670 --> 00:52:53,330 He's like, "I'm gonna do this." I'm like, "No, don't do it." 1217 00:52:53,670 --> 00:52:54,300 He's like, "I'm gonna do it." 1218 00:52:54,333 --> 00:52:56,833 And I'm like, "Okay, there's nothing I can do." 1219 00:52:56,867 --> 00:53:00,467 And sitting on the edge of the bathtub, 1220 00:53:00,500 --> 00:53:03,733 Sid shot his steroids. 1221 00:53:03,767 --> 00:53:06,733 And fell directly back into the bathtub. 1222 00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:22,670 I've got Sid in the worst situation I've ever seen. 1223 00:53:22,100 --> 00:53:23,533 And these kids are just kinda looking at him. 1224 00:53:23,567 --> 00:53:26,733 Almost dead, turning blue. I got him on his feet, 1225 00:53:26,767 --> 00:53:28,333 walked him around. 1226 00:53:28,367 --> 00:53:30,300 Stuff I've never had to do with anybody ever. 1227 00:53:30,333 --> 00:53:31,467 He was responding. 1228 00:53:31,500 --> 00:53:35,400 He was groaning, but he was in a semi-coma. 1229 00:53:35,433 --> 00:53:37,567 But his circulation returned. 1230 00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:39,330 It was working, you know. 1231 00:53:39,670 --> 00:53:41,567 I was really fearing it won't. 1232 00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:44,100 And here's the beauty of Sid. 1233 00:53:44,133 --> 00:53:47,433 The doctor shows up, gives him the Narcan, 1234 00:53:47,467 --> 00:53:50,667 whatever is they give you when you OD on heroin. 1235 00:53:50,700 --> 00:53:52,000 Sid sits up, 1236 00:53:52,733 --> 00:53:55,667 fixes his hair, stands up, 1237 00:53:55,700 --> 00:53:58,500 and looks around and goes, "What?" 1238 00:53:58,533 --> 00:54:01,000 And that was it. That was like nothing happened. 1239 00:54:03,100 --> 00:54:06,533 SID: The Sex Pistols are finished. 1240 00:54:06,567 --> 00:54:10,200 There could never be a replacement for John Rotten. 1241 00:54:10,233 --> 00:54:13,767 Sometimes it upsets me so much that I cry about it. 1242 00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:17,467 Because that band stood for so, so much. 1243 00:54:17,500 --> 00:54:21,300 It stood for so much, like freedom of youth and speech 1244 00:54:21,333 --> 00:54:24,800 and it was very revolutionary. 1245 00:54:24,833 --> 00:54:28,500 I guess a junkie only needs a rap to justify his life, 1246 00:54:28,533 --> 00:54:30,133 and a means to get that rap. 1247 00:54:30,167 --> 00:54:32,300 Once he was kicked out of the Pistols, 1248 00:54:32,333 --> 00:54:33,500 he was kind of lost 1249 00:54:33,533 --> 00:54:37,670 and up for absolutely anything. 1250 00:54:47,533 --> 00:54:49,767 Porno, playing with anybody. 1251 00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:53,100 I mean, they were just like desperate junkies. 1252 00:54:53,133 --> 00:54:54,833 Really sad, it has to be said. 1253 00:54:54,867 --> 00:54:57,500 Hey, do you wanna make a pornographic movie? 1254 00:54:57,533 --> 00:55:00,400 Give us a hundred pounds. 1255 00:55:00,433 --> 00:55:03,800 I remember she came up to me and said, "Hi, Steve. 1256 00:55:03,833 --> 00:55:07,330 "Would you like to watch me and Sid have sex for 20 pounds?" 1257 00:55:07,670 --> 00:55:09,167 I went, "You'd have to pay me a lot more than that, Nancy. 1258 00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:11,700 "I tell you, honestly, I couldn't think of nothing worse 1259 00:55:11,733 --> 00:55:13,467 "than watching you and him having sex?" 1260 00:55:13,500 --> 00:55:14,833 She even hit on me one time. 1261 00:55:14,867 --> 00:55:17,433 I had to get her a spliff to get her off my back. 1262 00:55:17,467 --> 00:55:18,633 Not literally, folks. 1263 00:55:18,667 --> 00:55:22,100 There was also a rumor that Sid did as well. 1264 00:55:22,133 --> 00:55:24,767 You know, that he gave himself to make money. 1265 00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:28,670 Do you want me to make you a cup of coffee? 1266 00:55:30,433 --> 00:55:31,600 Yeah, could you? 1267 00:55:31,633 --> 00:55:33,733 Yes, I'll make you a cup of coffee. 1268 00:55:33,767 --> 00:55:36,500 I just took a suitcase, got on a plane and went to London. 1269 00:55:36,533 --> 00:55:38,333 And I was on King's Road, 1270 00:55:38,367 --> 00:55:40,400 and some kids came out and they're like, 1271 00:55:40,433 --> 00:55:42,500 "So, Sid's in the store right there. 1272 00:55:42,533 --> 00:55:45,133 "Boy, why don't you go and say hi." 1273 00:55:45,167 --> 00:55:47,700 And I'm like, "Okay." 1274 00:55:47,733 --> 00:55:50,600 And I walked in and he turned around 1275 00:55:50,633 --> 00:55:55,700 and it was like we had just seen each other five minutes ago. 1276 00:55:55,733 --> 00:56:01,300 And at that point, he's like, "You have to come over and meet Nancy." 1277 00:56:01,333 --> 00:56:05,300 To be really honest, Nancy was so nice 1278 00:56:05,333 --> 00:56:07,700 and wonderful to me, when I met her. 1279 00:56:07,733 --> 00:56:11,670 And, then she goes, "You need to stay here with us, 1280 00:56:11,100 --> 00:56:12,767 "if you're not really staying anywhere." 1281 00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:16,333 They actually spent a lot of time in bed in their room, 1282 00:56:16,367 --> 00:56:20,300 in front of the TV, in their underwear, high on fucking heroin. 1283 00:56:20,333 --> 00:56:23,367 We would go to the chip shop, come back, 1284 00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:27,500 watch TV, do our hair, you know. 1285 00:56:27,533 --> 00:56:28,767 They stayed home a lot. 1286 00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:31,330 You know, there wasn't a lot of fighting. 1287 00:56:31,670 --> 00:56:33,330 There wasn't a lot of arguing. 1288 00:56:33,670 --> 00:56:34,500 I think the whole time I was there, 1289 00:56:34,533 --> 00:56:36,800 there was like one argument fight. 1290 00:56:36,833 --> 00:56:40,433 There was kind of a lot of whining on Nancy's part, 1291 00:56:40,467 --> 00:56:42,200 but I think she was just very whiny. 1292 00:56:42,233 --> 00:56:44,670 Girlfriend at the time used to make clothes 1293 00:56:44,100 --> 00:56:48,100 and she used to kinda hang out there. 1294 00:56:48,133 --> 00:56:51,167 And say that she was always trying to let her jeans out a bit more. 1295 00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:53,233 'Cause she was putting on weight 1296 00:56:53,267 --> 00:56:55,133 and putting on weight and putting on weight. 1297 00:56:55,167 --> 00:56:59,267 Those jeans had these, sort of, different shade of blue V's in the back. 1298 00:56:59,300 --> 00:57:02,700 There was apparently animosity between Nancy and Sid's mom. 1299 00:57:03,833 --> 00:57:06,267 And while I was living there, 1300 00:57:06,300 --> 00:57:08,133 like, a couple of times they went out, 1301 00:57:08,167 --> 00:57:10,633 and they were like, "If she comes by..." 1302 00:57:10,667 --> 00:57:13,667 Nancy, "If she comes by, don't let her in the house." 1303 00:57:13,700 --> 00:57:15,533 And one night she did come by. 1304 00:57:15,567 --> 00:57:18,433 She was, "I just wanted to drop some things off for Sid." 1305 00:57:18,467 --> 00:57:21,733 And she gave me a big bag of jujubes 1306 00:57:22,700 --> 00:57:25,700 and a big bag of syringes. 1307 00:57:25,733 --> 00:57:29,330 This was mom's present or whatever, 1308 00:57:29,670 --> 00:57:31,267 care package for Sid. 1309 00:57:31,300 --> 00:57:34,233 And I was just like, "Wow." 1310 00:57:34,267 --> 00:57:40,233 Malcolm, um, held the purse strings as regards money. 1311 00:57:40,267 --> 00:57:43,670 So, Sid needed money because he had a drug habit. 1312 00:57:43,100 --> 00:57:45,767 So he was always dependent upon that. 1313 00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:49,670 And Malcolm was never forthcoming with any great amounts of money. 1314 00:57:52,670 --> 00:57:53,633 SID: It's here to signify, 1315 00:57:53,667 --> 00:57:56,267 the flow of air around the chair, you know. 1316 00:57:56,300 --> 00:57:58,400 Trying to be all artistic and impress us 1317 00:57:58,433 --> 00:57:59,800 and we were laughing our heads off. 1318 00:57:59,833 --> 00:58:01,333 "You are an idiot." 1319 00:58:01,833 --> 00:58:03,300 I hate Malcolm. 1320 00:58:03,333 --> 00:58:06,300 Obviously, Malcolm was really concentrating on Sid. 1321 00:58:06,333 --> 00:58:10,100 And Nancy was really getting in the way of Maclcolm's plans. 1322 00:58:10,133 --> 00:58:11,600 What Nancy was doing was deciding 1323 00:58:11,633 --> 00:58:13,330 that she was going to be Sid's manager. 1324 00:58:13,670 --> 00:58:15,567 So, Malcolm did his word of mouth thing, 1325 00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:17,200 which I thought was hilarious. 1326 00:58:17,233 --> 00:58:19,633 SID: My girlfriend manages me. 1327 00:58:19,667 --> 00:58:23,700 I just wanna get another band together and tour. 1328 00:58:23,733 --> 00:58:28,433 The reality was, on paper and on contract with the lawyers, 1329 00:58:28,467 --> 00:58:31,433 Malcolm McLaren was still Sid's manager. 1330 00:58:31,467 --> 00:58:34,233 In retrospect, maybe, there was a lot more humor to the whole thing, 1331 00:58:34,267 --> 00:58:37,330 than I was able to really enjoy at the time. 1332 00:58:37,670 --> 00:58:39,400 SID: I don't know whether so many songs sung... 1333 00:58:39,433 --> 00:58:41,500 I don't know whether he'll have enough faith in it. 1334 00:58:41,533 --> 00:58:43,300 But she's damn smart. 1335 00:58:43,333 --> 00:58:47,500 Damn smart. She's been a lot around the music business 1336 00:58:47,533 --> 00:58:50,633 since she was 13 and she knows a lot of guys 1337 00:58:50,667 --> 00:58:52,467 and she can pull a lot of weight. 1338 00:58:54,333 --> 00:58:56,433 I was really surprised that Glen and him 1339 00:58:56,467 --> 00:58:57,667 were really good friends. 1340 00:58:57,700 --> 00:59:01,467 When Glen first came over, I was like, "Go figure." 1341 00:59:01,500 --> 00:59:05,500 The one guy, that, you know, he replaced in the band, 1342 00:59:05,533 --> 00:59:08,670 is the one guy who's there for him. 1343 00:59:08,100 --> 00:59:09,667 When I was sitting there in the pub next to him, 1344 00:59:09,700 --> 00:59:12,133 and he said, " What's all this about we don't get on?" 1345 00:59:12,167 --> 00:59:14,233 I said "I don't know. We're sitting here in a pub, aren't we?" 1346 00:59:14,267 --> 00:59:15,100 And he said, "Yeah." 1347 00:59:16,367 --> 00:59:18,600 And he said, "How can we prove to people?" 1348 00:59:18,633 --> 00:59:20,800 I said, "I don't know. I don't know if I'm bothered about proving to people." 1349 00:59:20,833 --> 00:59:23,233 He said, "No, no, we should." 1350 00:59:23,267 --> 00:59:25,833 I said, "How about doing a gig then?" 1351 00:59:25,867 --> 00:59:27,600 He went, "That's a good idea. Who can we get?" 1352 00:59:27,633 --> 00:59:29,330 We went through who we could get 1353 00:59:29,670 --> 00:59:31,200 and we got Steve New of the Rich Kids 1354 00:59:31,233 --> 00:59:35,167 and Rat Scabies, just old mates. 1355 00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:37,800 And put a band together. And we called it the Vicious White Kids. 1356 00:59:37,833 --> 00:59:40,300 Sid Vicious, I was still just about 1357 00:59:40,333 --> 00:59:42,200 in the Rich Kids and Steve was in... 1358 00:59:42,233 --> 00:59:44,533 Rat Scabies was actually not in the band at that stage. 1359 00:59:44,567 --> 00:59:46,333 He had a band called The White Cats. 1360 00:59:46,367 --> 00:59:48,233 It was kind of funny though 1361 00:59:48,267 --> 00:59:51,467 'cause, I don't know, I just found Sid a little bit slow, really. 1362 00:59:51,500 --> 00:59:54,567 He said, "We've got Steve on guitar, 1363 00:59:54,600 --> 00:59:56,133 "and Rat on drums. 1364 00:59:57,400 --> 00:59:59,267 "Who's gonna play bass?" 1365 00:59:59,300 --> 01:00:01,133 He said, "You're a bass player and I'm a bass player. 1366 01:00:01,167 --> 01:00:02,367 "Who's gonna play bass?" 1367 01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:03,633 I said, "I'll put it this way, Sid, 1368 01:00:03,667 --> 01:00:04,833 "I'm certainly not gonna sing." 1369 01:00:04,867 --> 01:00:07,467 He went, "Oh. Who's gonna sing then?" 1370 01:00:07,500 --> 01:00:08,733 I said, "You can sing." 1371 01:00:08,767 --> 01:00:10,267 "Who's gonna play bass?" 1372 01:00:11,833 --> 01:00:13,800 That was the greatest show. 1373 01:00:13,833 --> 01:00:15,567 Everyone was there. 1374 01:00:15,600 --> 01:00:17,333 [ TIME OF YOUR LIFE PLAYING] 1375 01:00:20,600 --> 01:00:25,433 * Time, time, time... 1376 01:00:25,467 --> 01:00:28,667 I think Debbie Harry was there, everyone was there. 1377 01:00:28,700 --> 01:00:30,400 That was an amazing show. 1378 01:00:30,433 --> 01:00:33,567 And had he been able to continue to pull that off 1379 01:00:33,600 --> 01:00:34,800 when he got to New York, 1380 01:00:36,133 --> 01:00:38,800 who knows what would have happened. 1381 01:00:38,833 --> 01:00:41,100 There you go, then we started rehearsing. 1382 01:00:41,133 --> 01:00:42,833 We did our one number, 1383 01:00:42,867 --> 01:00:44,233 and Sid comes up to me afterwards. 1384 01:00:44,267 --> 01:00:46,100 And he says, "Well, it's like you can play bass 1385 01:00:46,133 --> 01:00:48,000 "all the way for a song without stopping." 1386 01:00:49,333 --> 01:00:51,433 At that time it did enable a lot kids 1387 01:00:51,467 --> 01:00:54,267 who hadn't seen Sid Vicious on stage 1388 01:00:54,300 --> 01:00:55,767 to actually go. 1389 01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:58,670 Since the rehearsal... We went for our first rehearsal, 1390 01:00:58,100 --> 01:01:00,567 everything had been cleared out by the band who had it before. 1391 01:01:00,600 --> 01:01:04,330 Apart from this Fender Mustang bass guitar, it was just sitting there. 1392 01:01:04,670 --> 01:01:05,233 His eyes lit up. 1393 01:01:05,267 --> 01:01:06,600 He went, "I'm having that for my honey." 1394 01:01:06,633 --> 01:01:08,667 You know, um, Nancy. 1395 01:01:08,700 --> 01:01:11,433 We rehearsed and we drove home. 1396 01:01:11,467 --> 01:01:13,400 Next day we got up to our rehearsal. 1397 01:01:13,433 --> 01:01:15,833 And they say, "Okay, have a good gig. Take the equipment. 1398 01:01:15,867 --> 01:01:17,133 "But you can't take the equipment 1399 01:01:17,167 --> 01:01:18,433 "until you give us the bass back." 1400 01:01:18,467 --> 01:01:19,767 "What bass?" 1401 01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:22,600 "The bass that Sid walked out with last night." 1402 01:01:22,633 --> 01:01:23,700 "No, we didn't have a bass." 1403 01:01:23,733 --> 01:01:26,100 "Everybody seen you, Sid." 1404 01:01:26,133 --> 01:01:28,670 We put a phone call in to Nancy, you know. 1405 01:01:28,100 --> 01:01:31,133 We arranged that, "Well, the bass was coming." 1406 01:01:31,167 --> 01:01:32,433 You know, we could be loading up. 1407 01:01:32,467 --> 01:01:35,100 But we had to sit there waiting for it to turn up. 1408 01:01:35,133 --> 01:01:37,167 Of course, in the meantime, Nancy's painted it 1409 01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:39,330 with black emulsion. 1410 01:01:39,670 --> 01:01:41,670 Hadn't even taken the strings off or anything like that. 1411 01:01:41,100 --> 01:01:44,200 And arrives in a cab in a black dripping bag. 1412 01:01:44,233 --> 01:01:46,133 So we gave it to the guy, but it's still dripping wet. 1413 01:01:46,167 --> 01:01:47,767 You know, but we just went. 1414 01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:51,167 But the whole idea of it was obviously to raise enough funds 1415 01:01:51,200 --> 01:01:54,330 to send Sid over to New York and, you know... 1416 01:01:54,670 --> 01:01:55,200 It could have been a lot of things. 1417 01:01:55,233 --> 01:01:56,567 It could be to get away from Malcolm. 1418 01:01:56,600 --> 01:01:59,500 Maybe to get some control over his career himself, 1419 01:01:59,533 --> 01:02:01,330 if he knew what he was doing. 1420 01:02:01,670 --> 01:02:04,700 But, um, I think there was also some legal problems, 1421 01:02:04,733 --> 01:02:07,400 they had over here at the time too. 1422 01:02:07,433 --> 01:02:10,233 There was a young, fairly up-and-coming 1423 01:02:10,267 --> 01:02:13,330 and promising record producer called John Shepcock. 1424 01:02:13,670 --> 01:02:15,233 He was in his early 20s. 1425 01:02:15,267 --> 01:02:18,367 Um, and he was a heroin addict too. 1426 01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:20,667 And he went down to Pindock Mews one night. 1427 01:02:20,700 --> 01:02:22,700 And himself, Sid and Nancy 1428 01:02:22,733 --> 01:02:25,333 had this kind of nod out on heroin. 1429 01:02:25,367 --> 01:02:28,433 And what tells you about the state they were in, 1430 01:02:28,467 --> 01:02:31,330 is the next morning they woke up, 1431 01:02:31,670 --> 01:02:33,133 and genuinely did not know 1432 01:02:33,167 --> 01:02:35,533 they were lying next to the dead body of John Shepcock. 1433 01:02:35,567 --> 01:02:38,600 And what Anne Beverly told me, is later she said, 1434 01:02:38,633 --> 01:02:40,800 then they knew they had to go. 1435 01:02:40,833 --> 01:02:44,200 Because the police were already harassing them for so many things, 1436 01:02:44,233 --> 01:02:47,100 and now, suddenly they're waking up with a dead body in their bed. 1437 01:02:47,133 --> 01:02:48,700 The way I remember that whole thing 1438 01:02:48,733 --> 01:02:50,200 of Sid and Nancy hooking up 1439 01:02:50,233 --> 01:02:51,667 and then her pretending to be his "manager" 1440 01:02:51,700 --> 01:02:54,670 and going to New York... 1441 01:02:54,100 --> 01:02:56,767 I have to say, that things were moving so fast by that time 1442 01:02:56,800 --> 01:02:58,267 that we didn't give a shit. 1443 01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:01,800 SID: Things aren't getting any easier. 1444 01:03:01,833 --> 01:03:03,367 It's probably getting worse and worse. 1445 01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:06,330 I hate this country and everything to do with it. 1446 01:03:06,670 --> 01:03:07,800 You know, the punk rock thing 1447 01:03:07,833 --> 01:03:09,667 had taken off and it had momentum. 1448 01:03:09,700 --> 01:03:12,833 And, no Sid, no Nancy or any of that stuff could really stop it. 1449 01:03:12,867 --> 01:03:14,800 So, we didn't really think twice about it. 1450 01:03:14,833 --> 01:03:16,833 SID: I want to go live somewhere else. 1451 01:03:16,867 --> 01:03:19,400 So, I mean we have no plans whatsoever. 1452 01:03:19,433 --> 01:03:24,667 We just live today solely existentialist like Jean-Paul Sartre. 1453 01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:30,467 His entire, you know, roots 1454 01:03:30,500 --> 01:03:33,467 and everything that he was obsessed with, 1455 01:03:33,500 --> 01:03:35,467 was in New York as well. 1456 01:03:35,500 --> 01:03:37,500 It was cool. New York was cool. 1457 01:03:37,533 --> 01:03:39,167 "Let's go to New York." "It sounds good." 1458 01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:42,100 "We can play at Max's, we can make money." "Yeah, okay, bro." 1459 01:03:42,133 --> 01:03:43,667 "We'll launch our career from there." 1460 01:03:43,700 --> 01:03:47,133 His obsession, with, you know, The New York Dolls 1461 01:03:47,167 --> 01:03:49,433 and the whole New York 1462 01:03:49,467 --> 01:03:51,500 punk rock and pre-punk rock scene... 1463 01:03:51,533 --> 01:03:53,330 You know, between the two of them, 1464 01:03:53,670 --> 01:03:55,333 where else... That's where they had to go. 1465 01:03:55,367 --> 01:03:57,667 They were so excited. 1466 01:03:57,700 --> 01:03:59,667 They were like, "We're going to America, 1467 01:03:59,700 --> 01:04:01,267 "and we are gonna just 1468 01:04:02,133 --> 01:04:03,233 "take over." 1469 01:04:04,867 --> 01:04:06,600 As opposed to, "We're going to America 1470 01:04:06,633 --> 01:04:08,670 "and it's going to eat us." 1471 01:04:21,433 --> 01:04:23,533 [ROCK MUSIC PLAYING] 1472 01:04:30,400 --> 01:04:33,670 HOWIE: On the one hand I think they came, 1473 01:04:33,100 --> 01:04:35,330 so she could show-off 1474 01:04:35,670 --> 01:04:37,400 and get back at everyone. 1475 01:04:37,433 --> 01:04:40,100 'Cause I don't think that many people liked her when she left. 1476 01:04:40,133 --> 01:04:42,767 New York reacted to the return 1477 01:04:42,800 --> 01:04:44,330 of Nancy 1478 01:04:45,200 --> 01:04:47,330 pretty much like you would expect. 1479 01:04:47,670 --> 01:04:50,533 She was like some, I guess, third rate, whatever, 1480 01:04:50,567 --> 01:04:55,200 chick from New York who never got paid any attention as she came back. 1481 01:04:55,233 --> 01:04:58,330 It's almost like a high school thing, you know. 1482 01:04:58,670 --> 01:04:59,200 This is all about her. 1483 01:04:59,233 --> 01:05:01,433 You know what I mean, this was not about him. 1484 01:05:01,467 --> 01:05:04,330 This was about her. For her. You know what I mean. 1485 01:05:04,670 --> 01:05:06,233 She was doing that thing, 1486 01:05:06,267 --> 01:05:07,400 you know, when you pull up 1487 01:05:07,433 --> 01:05:09,333 to your high school reunion in a Rolls Royce. 1488 01:05:09,367 --> 01:05:12,567 You know, that's where she was at. 1489 01:05:18,200 --> 01:05:19,833 One year in England. 1490 01:05:19,867 --> 01:05:21,333 She came back with Sid, 1491 01:05:21,367 --> 01:05:23,467 and she had the thickest Cockney accent 1492 01:05:23,500 --> 01:05:25,330 in the world, you know. 1493 01:05:25,670 --> 01:05:26,400 It's like, you know what... 1494 01:05:27,700 --> 01:05:29,200 The day before she had it, 1495 01:05:29,233 --> 01:05:30,600 she had like this... I don't know, like, 1496 01:05:30,633 --> 01:05:33,500 Philadelphia, you know... She grew up in Philadelphia. 1497 01:05:33,533 --> 01:05:36,100 Felt kinda like the client's Nancy. 1498 01:05:36,133 --> 01:05:40,670 It's almost like those Americans who come back with British accents. 1499 01:05:40,100 --> 01:05:42,200 So, she came back with a British boyfriend 1500 01:05:42,233 --> 01:05:44,133 and British money and British fame. 1501 01:05:44,167 --> 01:05:47,600 And all of which was wildly phony. 1502 01:05:47,633 --> 01:05:50,670 ELLIOT: She was Nancy, you know, she was running around. 1503 01:05:50,100 --> 01:05:52,367 She was like Mrs. Sid Vicious. 1504 01:05:52,400 --> 01:05:57,267 So, yes, everyone, everyone really despised her. 1505 01:06:02,333 --> 01:06:05,670 Sid Vicious was barely big on the underground in America. 1506 01:06:05,100 --> 01:06:07,767 You know, The Pistols hadn't actually sold any units, 1507 01:06:07,800 --> 01:06:09,567 they'd already split up. 1508 01:06:09,600 --> 01:06:13,367 It would be ten years later before their album went Platinum in America. 1509 01:06:13,400 --> 01:06:15,200 So, when he arrived, 1510 01:06:15,233 --> 01:06:18,200 he would've been famous within his click of people. 1511 01:06:18,233 --> 01:06:22,200 I'm talking about a very basic underground fame. 1512 01:06:22,233 --> 01:06:24,733 People would throw shit at us in the streets. 1513 01:06:24,767 --> 01:06:27,433 You know, Sid Vicious was not a rockstar 1514 01:06:27,467 --> 01:06:30,167 except among that circle of people. 1515 01:06:37,167 --> 01:06:39,200 As for the landmark Chelsea Hotel, 1516 01:06:39,233 --> 01:06:41,200 it is more used to names like Dylan Thomas, 1517 01:06:41,233 --> 01:06:43,333 and Bob Dylan than that of Sid Vicious. 1518 01:06:43,367 --> 01:06:45,367 The Chelsea hotel was a, uh... 1519 01:06:46,100 --> 01:06:47,633 A fancy low-life 1520 01:06:48,267 --> 01:06:49,467 [LAUGHING] 1521 01:06:49,500 --> 01:06:53,233 nightmare with a hefty history. 1522 01:06:53,267 --> 01:06:57,330 But it's mystique was that so many artists, 1523 01:06:57,670 --> 01:07:00,400 from Andy Warhol to Muhammad Ali... 1524 01:07:00,433 --> 01:07:05,700 It was a place where the it people would feel comfortable. 1525 01:07:05,733 --> 01:07:08,670 NEON: Dylan Thomas to Bob Dylan, 1526 01:07:08,100 --> 01:07:12,330 all these brilliant artists were there at some period of time. 1527 01:07:12,670 --> 01:07:15,100 I first moved into the Chelsea in 1975. 1528 01:07:15,133 --> 01:07:17,467 And I lived there on and off until '81. 1529 01:07:17,500 --> 01:07:19,533 NEON: You're allowed to do things 1530 01:07:19,567 --> 01:07:21,833 you wouldn't be able to do in other hotels. 1531 01:07:21,867 --> 01:07:24,670 You can take the bed apart. 1532 01:07:24,100 --> 01:07:27,167 You can throw the bed out. You can put it in the hallway. 1533 01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:30,567 It was an extremely dingy, dark place. 1534 01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:34,133 You can paint the walls each week a different color. 1535 01:07:34,167 --> 01:07:36,800 Hang what you want on it, nail What you want up on it. 1536 01:07:36,833 --> 01:07:41,200 The rooms were anything but attractive. 1537 01:07:41,233 --> 01:07:44,133 How dingy your room was or how posh your room was, 1538 01:07:44,167 --> 01:07:46,700 was up to you, not the hotel. 1539 01:07:46,733 --> 01:07:49,433 LEEE: They were so available at the Chelsea Hotel. 1540 01:07:49,467 --> 01:07:51,467 Everyone knew where they were. 1541 01:07:51,500 --> 01:07:53,733 And everyone knew when they had drugs. 1542 01:07:53,767 --> 01:07:56,667 There was no screening at the front desk. 1543 01:07:56,700 --> 01:07:58,400 People just in and out. 1544 01:07:58,433 --> 01:08:01,400 And every drug dealer wanted to sell them something 1545 01:08:01,433 --> 01:08:03,733 because, "Yeah, they've got money and they're famous." 1546 01:08:03,767 --> 01:08:06,467 STEVE: The Chelsea Hotel, I think, was also kind of a... 1547 01:08:06,500 --> 01:08:08,200 Maybe not the greatest move for them 1548 01:08:08,233 --> 01:08:10,400 because you had a lot of characters in there. 1549 01:08:10,433 --> 01:08:12,800 Rockets Redglare, and these sleazy fuckers 1550 01:08:12,833 --> 01:08:15,600 who just wanted to be, sort of, in there with Sid, 1551 01:08:15,633 --> 01:08:17,567 and obviously, you know... 1552 01:08:17,600 --> 01:08:19,833 Wanting to rub shoulders 1553 01:08:19,867 --> 01:08:22,670 with this icon, you know. 1554 01:08:22,100 --> 01:08:25,533 So, immediately they fell in with all the creeps. 1555 01:08:25,567 --> 01:08:29,733 And maybe I should say "us creeps." [LAUGHING] 1556 01:08:29,767 --> 01:08:33,467 NEON: And there was this blond there at the reception, 1557 01:08:33,500 --> 01:08:35,633 kinda stumbling. 1558 01:08:35,667 --> 01:08:40,500 Surrounded all these pound notes and US notes on the floor. 1559 01:08:40,533 --> 01:08:44,500 And the guy behind the reception looking really irritated. 1560 01:08:44,533 --> 01:08:46,800 Like, "Ugh, God!" 1561 01:08:46,833 --> 01:08:48,133 And me and Honi O' Rourke 1562 01:08:48,167 --> 01:08:50,100 went and said, "You could meet her." 1563 01:08:50,133 --> 01:08:51,333 And it was Nancy. 1564 01:08:51,367 --> 01:08:54,733 She had like a big bruise on the side of her head. 1565 01:08:54,767 --> 01:08:57,167 She's says, "Oh, wow, look what happened to me. 1566 01:08:57,200 --> 01:09:01,100 "We were at Johnny Rotten's place or something, somebody OD'd." 1567 01:09:01,133 --> 01:09:03,800 Something, and she was hit with a bat or something. 1568 01:09:03,833 --> 01:09:05,267 We had to leave. 1569 01:09:06,200 --> 01:09:07,700 "Oh, okay. 1570 01:09:07,733 --> 01:09:09,467 "Ah, you want to meet Sid!" 1571 01:09:20,633 --> 01:09:22,267 We got him on to methadone. 1572 01:09:22,300 --> 01:09:25,133 It was one of the first things we did because he was not well. 1573 01:09:25,167 --> 01:09:27,200 He came with a massive habit from London, 1574 01:09:27,233 --> 01:09:29,767 the heroin in London is much stronger than it was New York, 1575 01:09:29,800 --> 01:09:31,333 so that was the problem. 1576 01:09:31,367 --> 01:09:33,100 So, that wasn't holding him. 1577 01:09:33,133 --> 01:09:37,700 I mean, these are the problems you have when you travel. 1578 01:09:37,733 --> 01:09:40,167 ALAN: I mean, when they arrived in America, 1579 01:09:40,200 --> 01:09:41,567 we must remember 1580 01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:43,833 there was a fairly substantial lump of money due to them 1581 01:09:43,867 --> 01:09:46,133 from the cover of the song My Way. 1582 01:09:46,167 --> 01:09:50,167 But of course, they were two very desperate heroin addicts. 1583 01:09:50,200 --> 01:09:51,567 Waiting around for money 1584 01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:54,133 was not particularly on the agenda on a daily basis. 1585 01:09:54,167 --> 01:09:56,333 She had to have money readily available. 1586 01:09:56,367 --> 01:09:59,300 ESTHER: Sid and Jerry were good friends. 1587 01:09:59,333 --> 01:10:02,733 And Jerry suggested they get a band, 1588 01:10:02,767 --> 01:10:04,533 and so they did. 1589 01:10:04,567 --> 01:10:07,267 Um, it's gonna be Sid, Jerry Nolan 1590 01:10:07,300 --> 01:10:09,330 and Arthur Kane from The Dolls 1591 01:10:09,670 --> 01:10:12,500 and Steve Dior from Jerry's new group The Idols. 1592 01:10:12,533 --> 01:10:15,833 ESTHER: They were gonna have Johnny Thunders play with them. 1593 01:10:15,867 --> 01:10:18,330 But he wasn't very skilled, you know. 1594 01:10:18,670 --> 01:10:21,833 So, eventually my brother played with them. 1595 01:10:21,867 --> 01:10:23,600 We finally decided we were gonna do it. 1596 01:10:23,633 --> 01:10:25,233 Nancy negotiated. 1597 01:10:25,267 --> 01:10:27,533 Actually, Jerry Nolan negotiated to be honest with you. 1598 01:10:27,567 --> 01:10:28,733 It was good deal. 1599 01:10:28,767 --> 01:10:30,833 Do two shows a night, it was a Thursday night, 1600 01:10:30,867 --> 01:10:32,667 two shows, six fellows in. 1601 01:10:33,600 --> 01:10:35,200 I think the place held about... 1602 01:10:35,233 --> 01:10:37,567 You could cram 2,000 in there upstairs. 1603 01:10:37,600 --> 01:10:43,100 I remember, Brenda, she was booking things to have Sid play in Max's. 1604 01:10:43,133 --> 01:10:44,800 I mean, she got a big advance 1605 01:10:44,833 --> 01:10:47,333 I think from Tommy Dean Mills, Tommy Dean, 1606 01:10:47,367 --> 01:10:50,670 who is the new owner for Mickey Ruskin. 1607 01:10:50,100 --> 01:10:51,300 So, I think that's pretty good, 1608 01:10:51,333 --> 01:10:53,400 although she didn't have any power. 1609 01:10:53,433 --> 01:10:57,400 I couldn't go in there and say, "Okay, give me all this money." 1610 01:10:57,433 --> 01:10:58,700 You know, and they say, "Yeah." 1611 01:10:58,733 --> 01:11:00,267 And I haven't even played note? 1612 01:11:01,533 --> 01:11:04,300 And not many people in this scene could do that. 1613 01:11:09,233 --> 01:11:10,467 It was a cool show. 1614 01:11:10,500 --> 01:11:13,100 He was happy at sound check and everything. 1615 01:11:13,133 --> 01:11:16,700 Where Steve Dior... We're all around, we're doing the sound check. 1616 01:11:16,733 --> 01:11:19,700 He was just a little too stoned by the time showtime rolled around. 1617 01:11:19,733 --> 01:11:21,600 HOWIE: It was very exciting and packed. 1618 01:11:21,633 --> 01:11:23,300 And it sucked. 1619 01:11:23,333 --> 01:11:25,670 You know, just like you would expect. 1620 01:11:25,100 --> 01:11:27,500 It didn't suck... I mean, he was just so fucked up. 1621 01:11:27,533 --> 01:11:29,330 First night, he gets wasted. 1622 01:11:29,670 --> 01:11:32,670 And I said, "Sid, get stoned after the show, please. 1623 01:11:32,100 --> 01:11:35,433 "Do a good show and let's all have a good time after." 1624 01:11:35,467 --> 01:11:37,233 Things didn't go well at that show. 1625 01:11:37,267 --> 01:11:39,367 The crowd was a bit nasty at the moment. 1626 01:11:39,400 --> 01:11:41,467 Sid could barely stand up, 1627 01:11:41,500 --> 01:11:44,533 he kinda picked up where he left off in San Francisco. 1628 01:11:44,567 --> 01:11:46,533 And was nodding out on stage. 1629 01:11:46,567 --> 01:11:50,330 It was a success because it was packed. 1630 01:11:50,670 --> 01:11:51,433 There were lines around the block. 1631 01:11:51,467 --> 01:11:54,670 I know they were making quite good money during the gigs. 1632 01:11:54,100 --> 01:11:55,400 They could do Max's 1633 01:11:55,433 --> 01:11:57,300 and Sid himself would pocket 1634 01:11:57,333 --> 01:12:00,300 probably about three or four thousand dollars easily. 1635 01:12:00,333 --> 01:12:02,300 I got good money for those shows. 1636 01:12:02,333 --> 01:12:04,833 And it was pocket money for Sid. 1637 01:12:04,867 --> 01:12:06,433 It was pocket money for all those people, 1638 01:12:06,467 --> 01:12:08,767 anybody who played in that band. 1639 01:12:08,800 --> 01:12:10,167 It was good money for. 1640 01:12:11,133 --> 01:12:12,767 [POLICE RADIO CRACKLING] 1641 01:12:18,133 --> 01:12:20,433 ALAN: Leading up to the death of Nancy, 1642 01:12:20,467 --> 01:12:22,433 things on the New York underground, 1643 01:12:22,467 --> 01:12:23,833 and this could be because heroin 1644 01:12:23,867 --> 01:12:27,267 was getting harder to find on a daily basis, 1645 01:12:27,300 --> 01:12:29,533 did seem to get a lot more scuzzy. 1646 01:12:29,567 --> 01:12:31,500 The Dead Boys drummer was famously stabbed 1647 01:12:31,533 --> 01:12:34,330 outside a taxi rank at 4:00 in the morning. 1648 01:12:34,670 --> 01:12:36,467 And a lot of the people on the underground 1649 01:12:36,500 --> 01:12:38,300 were arming themselves. 1650 01:12:38,333 --> 01:12:40,670 You know, it's quite well documented, 1651 01:12:40,100 --> 01:12:42,433 that people like Dee Dee Ramone and Steve Bates 1652 01:12:42,467 --> 01:12:43,667 weren't just buying knives, 1653 01:12:43,700 --> 01:12:46,330 they were telling other people to buy knives. 1654 01:12:46,670 --> 01:12:48,433 Because there was obviously something going very wrong, 1655 01:12:48,467 --> 01:12:51,433 on the scuzzy side of Manhattan if you like. 1656 01:12:55,867 --> 01:12:57,800 There shouldn't be too much doubt, 1657 01:12:57,833 --> 01:13:00,330 uh, in anyone's mind 1658 01:13:00,670 --> 01:13:02,167 that the tension between them 1659 01:13:02,200 --> 01:13:03,733 was coming to a head. 1660 01:13:05,267 --> 01:13:08,670 Don't drop it on me again! 1661 01:13:08,733 --> 01:13:11,467 For anyone that wonders 1662 01:13:11,500 --> 01:13:13,633 at what might have happened on the 12th, 1663 01:13:13,667 --> 01:13:16,767 I think that you need to start with those shows. 1664 01:13:16,800 --> 01:13:20,433 You know, she'd gotten really kinda pushy. 1665 01:13:20,467 --> 01:13:24,200 And a degree of arrogance which was a disguise, I think, 1666 01:13:24,233 --> 01:13:25,633 for insecurities 1667 01:13:25,667 --> 01:13:28,433 that were going on with her and Sid and their relationship. 1668 01:13:33,700 --> 01:13:35,800 I think maybe it was Nancy, 1669 01:13:35,833 --> 01:13:38,467 who called up Honi O'Rourke, right. 1670 01:13:38,500 --> 01:13:43,767 And, uh, says, "Oh, Sid and I are gonna come by." 1671 01:13:43,800 --> 01:13:46,670 At the time, I don't know, it was before 12:00, 1672 01:13:46,100 --> 01:13:47,833 several hours before 12:00. 1673 01:13:47,867 --> 01:13:50,400 And they came to the room, 1674 01:13:50,433 --> 01:13:52,467 and Nancy had a portfolio 1675 01:13:52,500 --> 01:13:55,333 of like press clippings. And we ate. 1676 01:13:55,367 --> 01:13:56,700 They were kinda depressed. 1677 01:13:58,367 --> 01:14:02,367 * She's got some Nasty habits... * 1678 01:14:02,400 --> 01:14:04,833 NEON: And they started going through the pictures. 1679 01:14:04,867 --> 01:14:07,167 And he's like, "Remember that day 1680 01:14:07,200 --> 01:14:09,670 "and now look at us. 1681 01:14:09,100 --> 01:14:11,133 "Look, we're all fucked up." 1682 01:14:11,167 --> 01:14:14,433 It wasn't even exactly feeling sorry for themselves. 1683 01:14:14,467 --> 01:14:17,367 It was like, "Where are we? 1684 01:14:17,400 --> 01:14:21,667 "Wow, are we ever gonna get the glory days back?" 1685 01:14:21,700 --> 01:14:23,667 I mean, the one thing we need to understand about 1686 01:14:23,700 --> 01:14:26,670 October the 12th, the night that Nancy died, 1687 01:14:26,100 --> 01:14:27,567 there was no heroin about. 1688 01:14:27,600 --> 01:14:31,167 And that's what leads us back to the Dilaudid and the Tuinal 1689 01:14:31,200 --> 01:14:33,633 and various capsules and pills that were brought in for them 1690 01:14:33,667 --> 01:14:35,433 by various people that night. 1691 01:14:35,467 --> 01:14:39,330 They left. This is maybe around 12:00. 1692 01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:41,267 Close to it. 1693 01:14:41,300 --> 01:14:42,600 And then I went out. 1694 01:14:42,633 --> 01:14:43,700 You can imagine, you know, 1695 01:14:43,733 --> 01:14:45,500 Sid and Nancy were clucking like chickens. 1696 01:14:45,533 --> 01:14:47,667 They were coming down cold Turkey. 1697 01:14:47,700 --> 01:14:49,667 Which was the worst way to come off drugs. 1698 01:14:49,700 --> 01:14:51,600 This is why they were having a party 1699 01:14:51,633 --> 01:14:53,667 and buying a lot of drugs. 1700 01:14:53,700 --> 01:14:55,600 VICTOR: I had gotten in just after midnight, 1701 01:14:55,633 --> 01:14:59,233 he called and said they were, you know, looking 1702 01:14:59,267 --> 01:15:00,767 for something to relax with. 1703 01:15:00,800 --> 01:15:03,600 And then I went with Kelly. 1704 01:15:03,633 --> 01:15:06,733 Uh, I think Leon wanted to bring them 1705 01:15:06,767 --> 01:15:08,600 to the room to get the brownie points. 1706 01:15:08,633 --> 01:15:11,467 But Kelly insisted and insisted that I go with her. 1707 01:15:11,500 --> 01:15:13,733 * Really loves to party 1708 01:15:15,833 --> 01:15:18,600 * She never wants to leave... 1709 01:15:19,767 --> 01:15:21,767 It was just Sid there that I remember. 1710 01:15:21,800 --> 01:15:24,000 Nancy, she just gave us the money. 1711 01:15:24,367 --> 01:15:25,767 Uh, we left. 1712 01:15:25,800 --> 01:15:28,800 Someone came over and told me there was a party at Sid's 1713 01:15:28,833 --> 01:15:30,200 and asked me if I was going. 1714 01:15:30,233 --> 01:15:31,600 I didn't really wanna be there. 1715 01:15:31,633 --> 01:15:33,433 You didn't know it was going to be an important night, 1716 01:15:33,467 --> 01:15:35,567 it was just another night out in New York. 1717 01:15:35,600 --> 01:15:39,733 Then, around 2:00 or something, 3:00, 1718 01:15:39,767 --> 01:15:42,800 I had a violent tooth ache and a stomach ache. 1719 01:15:42,833 --> 01:15:46,670 Well, it's 19 years ago um... 1720 01:15:46,100 --> 01:15:48,533 But I know I don't go out before midnight. 1721 01:15:48,567 --> 01:15:51,533 And I know Max's closes at 4:00. 1722 01:15:51,567 --> 01:15:53,367 Probably somewhere between 2:00 and 4:00. 1723 01:15:53,400 --> 01:15:55,167 So, I went home. 1724 01:15:55,200 --> 01:15:58,367 And then was seeking some type of medication like a joint. 1725 01:15:58,400 --> 01:16:02,433 Right, and there was a dancer, 1726 01:16:02,467 --> 01:16:05,833 who lived on another floor. 1727 01:16:05,867 --> 01:16:07,567 hanging out with a friend of mine, uh, 1728 01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:10,433 Pepe Valentine, he was from a group called Squirrels. 1729 01:16:10,467 --> 01:16:11,833 Now, he is Victor Colicchio 1730 01:16:11,867 --> 01:16:14,233 and a girl named Kelly Garrett. 1731 01:16:14,267 --> 01:16:16,233 And I called her up and asked her, 1732 01:16:16,267 --> 01:16:18,133 "Oh, do you have a joint, I got a tooth ache and stuff." 1733 01:16:18,167 --> 01:16:19,500 She came down. 1734 01:16:19,533 --> 01:16:21,667 Neon claims to have been in the room with Kelly 1735 01:16:21,700 --> 01:16:24,670 and no last name residents of room 301 1736 01:16:24,100 --> 01:16:27,533 where he received a call from Nancy asking for pot at 4:00 a.m. 1737 01:16:27,567 --> 01:16:29,100 Nancy called me. 1738 01:16:29,133 --> 01:16:30,367 Wanted to know if I had a joint. 1739 01:16:30,400 --> 01:16:32,100 She talked about Sid. 1740 01:16:32,133 --> 01:16:33,433 I said, "How is he?" 1741 01:16:33,467 --> 01:16:35,633 And she says, "Oh, he's done a couple of Dilaudids. 1742 01:16:35,667 --> 01:16:37,533 "And he is out of it 1743 01:16:37,567 --> 01:16:39,267 "and he's useless." 1744 01:16:39,300 --> 01:16:42,300 There was another voice in the background and it wasn't Sid. 1745 01:16:42,333 --> 01:16:43,833 I couldn't tell who it was, 1746 01:16:43,867 --> 01:16:45,767 but there was somebody else in the room. 1747 01:16:45,800 --> 01:16:47,467 And she says, "Okay, well, 1748 01:16:47,500 --> 01:16:50,267 "call if you hear about something." 1749 01:16:50,300 --> 01:16:53,433 I said, "Yeah, of course." Right. 1750 01:16:53,467 --> 01:16:55,333 It was I'd say between 4:00 and 5:00, 1751 01:16:55,367 --> 01:16:57,600 that they came, that they called up. 1752 01:16:57,633 --> 01:16:59,133 Kelly came down to the room, 1753 01:16:59,167 --> 01:17:01,330 by the time I got dressed and got down to the room... 1754 01:17:01,670 --> 01:17:02,367 We knocked on the door 1755 01:17:02,400 --> 01:17:04,533 and she opened the door partially. 1756 01:17:04,567 --> 01:17:07,833 Uh, Sid was out of it, out of it. 1757 01:17:07,867 --> 01:17:11,833 Uh, and there was a guy in the room, 1758 01:17:11,867 --> 01:17:15,533 who I believe always his name to be, 1759 01:17:15,567 --> 01:17:18,400 I would say Snakey, Spidey, 1760 01:17:18,433 --> 01:17:21,300 Skippy, I just remembered... 1761 01:17:21,333 --> 01:17:24,633 You know, a "S" and "E" in the name. I didn't pay attention. 1762 01:17:24,667 --> 01:17:26,567 And he was there and they already had enough. 1763 01:17:26,600 --> 01:17:28,233 Sid was passed out. 1764 01:17:28,267 --> 01:17:31,400 And that was the last time I saw either one of them. 1765 01:17:32,700 --> 01:17:36,567 So, I walked in, you know, scanned around the room. 1766 01:17:36,600 --> 01:17:39,600 Sid was passed out on the bed, passed out. 1767 01:17:39,633 --> 01:17:42,200 WOMAN: Did he move at all while you were there? No. 1768 01:17:42,233 --> 01:17:43,500 Never said anything? 1769 01:17:44,670 --> 01:17:45,267 Said anything? 1770 01:17:45,767 --> 01:17:46,767 No. 1771 01:17:47,700 --> 01:17:51,700 I was familiar with his condition. 1772 01:17:51,733 --> 01:17:54,733 He wasn't sane, he probably wasn't even dreaming. 1773 01:17:54,767 --> 01:17:59,330 But someone said, uh, he had about 30 Tuinals. 1774 01:17:59,670 --> 01:18:01,467 ALAN: Basically, like Dilaudid, it's the kind of drug 1775 01:18:01,500 --> 01:18:03,767 that's given to cancer patients 1776 01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:05,633 to block out everything. 1777 01:18:05,667 --> 01:18:07,433 WOMAN: What are the likelihoods that someone 1778 01:18:07,467 --> 01:18:10,633 who had eaten 30 Tuinals would get up 1779 01:18:10,667 --> 01:18:13,267 in an hour, in a couple of hours and... 1780 01:18:13,300 --> 01:18:15,300 There is no possibility. 1781 01:18:15,867 --> 01:18:17,100 There is none. 1782 01:18:17,133 --> 01:18:20,670 Everybody who was at that party, 1783 01:18:20,100 --> 01:18:22,733 told me how Sid was so stoned, 1784 01:18:22,767 --> 01:18:25,167 he could not have lifted that knife, 1785 01:18:25,200 --> 01:18:27,633 much less stabbed somebody with it. 1786 01:18:27,667 --> 01:18:31,267 Now, 30 Tuinal, you know, boys and girls, will kill you. 1787 01:18:31,300 --> 01:18:34,500 It's not the kind of experiment you wanna try just to be like Sid Vicious. 1788 01:18:34,533 --> 01:18:36,800 It will kill you. It'll fell a tree. 1789 01:18:36,833 --> 01:18:38,300 Now, whether he ate 30 1790 01:18:38,333 --> 01:18:40,300 or whether he ate three, I don't know. 1791 01:18:40,333 --> 01:18:44,400 But, I knew people who could do 30 Tuinals. 1792 01:18:45,133 --> 01:18:46,500 You know. 1793 01:18:46,533 --> 01:18:48,367 I was one of them. 1794 01:18:48,400 --> 01:18:51,330 'Cause when I saw him and I know the amount of Tuinals he took... 1795 01:18:51,667 --> 01:18:52,667 And... 1796 01:18:54,233 --> 01:18:56,733 I just can't see him killing and going back to sleep 1797 01:18:56,767 --> 01:19:00,200 and there was just a lot of it that didn't make sense. 1798 01:19:00,233 --> 01:19:01,533 I know for a fact there are people 1799 01:19:01,567 --> 01:19:04,533 who went into that room that night that Nancy died. 1800 01:19:04,567 --> 01:19:07,367 And when they told their stories years later, 1801 01:19:07,400 --> 01:19:08,833 they said, "Talk about the shock 1802 01:19:08,867 --> 01:19:11,133 "when we woke up the next morning, Nancy was dead. 1803 01:19:11,167 --> 01:19:13,133 "When we left the Chelsea that night, 1804 01:19:13,167 --> 01:19:15,200 "we thought we're looking at the late Sid Vicious. 1805 01:19:15,233 --> 01:19:17,670 A while later, 1806 01:19:17,100 --> 01:19:20,300 there's like a knocking on the door. 1807 01:19:20,333 --> 01:19:25,633 No, pounding is more, you know... And it was so scary. 1808 01:19:25,667 --> 01:19:29,167 And then there was a sound, to me it sounded like metal, 1809 01:19:30,333 --> 01:19:33,000 hitting the floor. And some mumbling. 1810 01:19:34,467 --> 01:19:36,833 And, silence. 1811 01:19:36,867 --> 01:19:39,333 Honi O' Rourke came back around 6:00 or something 1812 01:19:39,367 --> 01:19:41,700 and said that there's some blood outside the door. 1813 01:19:41,733 --> 01:19:44,500 The thing that really struck me though 1814 01:19:44,533 --> 01:19:46,733 was why no one had ever talked to any of the people 1815 01:19:46,767 --> 01:19:48,333 who were actually there. 1816 01:19:48,367 --> 01:19:51,167 That there were so many people in The Chelsea, 1817 01:19:51,200 --> 01:19:53,433 they were in that room that night. 1818 01:19:53,467 --> 01:19:55,400 And that none of these people 1819 01:19:55,433 --> 01:19:58,367 seemed to have told anyone their story. 1820 01:19:58,400 --> 01:20:01,367 As a matter of fact, in the lobby of the Chelsea Hotel, 1821 01:20:01,400 --> 01:20:03,567 the next morning, when all the press, 1822 01:20:04,400 --> 01:20:05,667 and everybody was there, 1823 01:20:05,700 --> 01:20:07,733 there were newspaper people all over the place, 1824 01:20:07,767 --> 01:20:09,400 I did approach one detective. 1825 01:20:09,433 --> 01:20:11,670 I don't remember his name, 1826 01:20:11,100 --> 01:20:13,133 but he wasn't interested at all in anything that I had to say. 1827 01:20:13,167 --> 01:20:15,600 And the knife was left here on the suitcase? 1828 01:20:15,633 --> 01:20:18,433 This is interesting. I've got a better picture. 1829 01:20:20,233 --> 01:20:22,733 Yeah, look at that. That's clean. 1830 01:20:22,767 --> 01:20:24,733 No blood, no fingerprints, nothing. 1831 01:20:26,200 --> 01:20:28,267 VICTOR: I can't see Sid wiping it. 1832 01:20:28,300 --> 01:20:31,167 And I can't see him, uh, 1833 01:20:31,200 --> 01:20:32,267 placing it there. 1834 01:20:34,533 --> 01:20:35,667 MALCOLM: And I think that 1835 01:20:35,700 --> 01:20:38,667 the mitigating circumstances were such, 1836 01:20:38,700 --> 01:20:42,670 as told to me by the lawyer that was representing him, 1837 01:20:42,100 --> 01:20:45,800 if there were no fingerprints on this particular knife, 1838 01:20:45,833 --> 01:20:48,767 then we would obviously have a very good case. 1839 01:20:48,800 --> 01:20:50,300 ALAN: Sergeant Houseman, I think, looked 1840 01:20:50,333 --> 01:20:52,670 into the whole thing a bit deeper. 1841 01:20:52,100 --> 01:20:54,733 And he suggested, 1842 01:20:54,767 --> 01:20:59,670 that had there been more time and more digging done, 1843 01:20:59,100 --> 01:21:01,400 it's just possible there may have been a different outcome 1844 01:21:01,433 --> 01:21:02,800 when the whole thing got to court. 1845 01:21:02,833 --> 01:21:05,800 I know the police wanted to speak to six people, 1846 01:21:05,833 --> 01:21:08,670 they never told me the names of those people, 1847 01:21:09,133 --> 01:21:11,167 but I know that in the police file, 1848 01:21:11,200 --> 01:21:12,333 there is at least one page 1849 01:21:12,367 --> 01:21:14,400 where six names have been wiped out. 1850 01:21:14,433 --> 01:21:18,233 VICTOR: These names, the fingerprints must have been on record. 1851 01:21:18,267 --> 01:21:21,367 In order for my name to be on here, 1852 01:21:21,400 --> 01:21:23,267 I would have to give the cops my fingerprint. 1853 01:21:24,300 --> 01:21:25,533 So, it indicates to me 1854 01:21:25,567 --> 01:21:28,500 that these people had previous criminal records, 1855 01:21:28,533 --> 01:21:30,767 otherwise, their fingerprints wouldn't be on file. 1856 01:21:30,800 --> 01:21:32,800 ALAN: I just think it was one of those scenarios, 1857 01:21:32,833 --> 01:21:34,367 where if they had a little bit more time, 1858 01:21:34,400 --> 01:21:37,133 they may have done more with it. 1859 01:21:37,167 --> 01:21:39,200 Right after this thing happened, 1860 01:21:39,233 --> 01:21:41,300 everybody in New York was suspicious, 1861 01:21:41,333 --> 01:21:43,330 because the stories came out 1862 01:21:43,670 --> 01:21:45,767 that no money was found in the room. 1863 01:21:47,167 --> 01:21:49,433 And people who'd been at the party 1864 01:21:49,467 --> 01:21:51,733 saw her flashing a lot money around. 1865 01:21:51,767 --> 01:21:53,767 NARRATOR: In the weeks leading up to Nancy's murder, 1866 01:21:53,800 --> 01:21:57,233 Sid had played lucrative gigs at Max's Kansas City. 1867 01:21:57,267 --> 01:22:00,200 And finally, been paid his royalties on the sales of My Way. 1868 01:22:00,233 --> 01:22:02,267 Paid in cash for both. 1869 01:22:02,300 --> 01:22:04,600 Whatever else happened in room 100 that night, 1870 01:22:04,633 --> 01:22:06,167 are we also supposed to believe 1871 01:22:06,200 --> 01:22:08,267 that all this money simply vanished? 1872 01:22:08,300 --> 01:22:09,533 Yet during the night, 1873 01:22:09,567 --> 01:22:12,233 the room had been accessed by drug dealers, junkies, 1874 01:22:12,267 --> 01:22:15,433 band members and by NYPD. 1875 01:22:15,467 --> 01:22:18,633 ALAN: The NYPD had no clue there was any missing money. 1876 01:22:18,667 --> 01:22:20,167 It's only when various witnesses 1877 01:22:20,200 --> 01:22:21,400 started giving their statements 1878 01:22:21,433 --> 01:22:24,167 and talking about Nancy dropping 100-dollar bills 1879 01:22:24,200 --> 01:22:25,533 in the corridor of the Chelsea. 1880 01:22:25,567 --> 01:22:28,800 I remember following Nancy through the lobby, 1881 01:22:28,833 --> 01:22:30,367 picking up her money 1882 01:22:30,400 --> 01:22:33,600 because she was always dropping 100-dollar bills behind her. 1883 01:22:33,633 --> 01:22:37,433 I felt like Nancy had lost some of her street smarts. 1884 01:22:37,467 --> 01:22:40,330 And picking those up, "Nancy, put these away. 1885 01:22:40,670 --> 01:22:43,367 "This is, you know, remember New York city." [LAUGHING] 1886 01:22:43,400 --> 01:22:45,333 NEON: The old Nancy, right, 1887 01:22:45,367 --> 01:22:48,267 would've never been in a lobby of a hotel, 1888 01:22:48,300 --> 01:22:50,100 with thousands of pounds. 1889 01:22:50,700 --> 01:22:51,700 In New York? 1890 01:22:52,867 --> 01:22:54,467 What! 1891 01:22:54,500 --> 01:22:56,330 We were like, "Put your money away. What are you doing? 1892 01:22:56,670 --> 01:22:57,233 "Don't want people to see that." 1893 01:22:57,267 --> 01:22:59,833 "Are you, you know... That's nuts!" 1894 01:22:59,867 --> 01:23:01,500 And you know, "Oh, fuck you." 1895 01:23:01,533 --> 01:23:03,433 I mean, she always had about three grand on her. 1896 01:23:03,467 --> 01:23:05,400 Yeah, some people 1897 01:23:05,433 --> 01:23:07,633 might suspect the cops have taken it. 1898 01:23:07,667 --> 01:23:10,267 But, uh, um, 1899 01:23:10,300 --> 01:23:11,833 I would think it would've... 1900 01:23:11,867 --> 01:23:13,500 I don't think it was a motive in the killing, 1901 01:23:13,533 --> 01:23:14,633 but, uh, 1902 01:23:14,667 --> 01:23:16,600 it was an opportunity. 1903 01:23:17,633 --> 01:23:19,100 WOMAN: Sid? Yeah. 1904 01:23:19,133 --> 01:23:22,200 What did he tell you? He told me that, 1905 01:23:22,233 --> 01:23:24,633 he saw the drawer where they kept their money was open. 1906 01:23:25,400 --> 01:23:26,800 And, it was missing. 1907 01:23:26,833 --> 01:23:29,567 And then he went into the bathroom, she was under the sink. 1908 01:23:29,600 --> 01:23:30,633 Oh. 1909 01:23:30,667 --> 01:23:32,200 And she was all bloody. 1910 01:23:32,233 --> 01:23:33,667 Somebody came in the room, 1911 01:23:33,700 --> 01:23:36,600 stabbed Nancy, took the money and left. 1912 01:23:36,633 --> 01:23:40,330 That seemed like a pretty normal story to me. 1913 01:23:40,670 --> 01:23:43,167 You know that if you knew Nancy, 1914 01:23:43,200 --> 01:23:46,600 if she caught someone robbing her money, she would attack. 1915 01:23:46,633 --> 01:23:49,267 There's talk of a party in the room. 1916 01:23:49,300 --> 01:23:51,600 I can't see it as being much of a party 1917 01:23:51,633 --> 01:23:54,200 because we know already that Sid was out cold 1918 01:23:54,233 --> 01:23:57,670 before the night was too old. 1919 01:23:57,100 --> 01:23:58,800 There were people in and out of there. 1920 01:23:58,833 --> 01:24:02,233 ALAN: There wasn't that many people hanging around and staying. 1921 01:24:02,267 --> 01:24:04,100 HOWIE: And I think they were the same people 1922 01:24:04,133 --> 01:24:05,233 over and over again. 1923 01:24:11,500 --> 01:24:15,333 We know that some people said that some "drug dealer" 1924 01:24:15,367 --> 01:24:19,333 from the Chelsea Hotel had been in there at that time. 1925 01:24:19,367 --> 01:24:21,600 Rockets Redglare, he was another 1926 01:24:21,633 --> 01:24:23,300 self-seeking nutso. 1927 01:24:23,333 --> 01:24:25,533 Uh, wonderful person, by the way. 1928 01:24:25,567 --> 01:24:26,767 But, uh, crazy. 1929 01:24:26,800 --> 01:24:29,733 I remember running into Rockets on Avenue Way. 1930 01:24:29,767 --> 01:24:31,700 I remember exactly where it was, 1931 01:24:31,733 --> 01:24:33,330 just by the street. 1932 01:24:33,670 --> 01:24:35,733 He'd sort of linked arms with me and leaned on me 1933 01:24:35,767 --> 01:24:37,467 and he was a tremendously big guy. 1934 01:24:37,500 --> 01:24:39,633 Told me, "I'm writing a book. 1935 01:24:39,667 --> 01:24:41,767 "And there's gonna be some very interesting facts 1936 01:24:41,800 --> 01:24:43,300 "that are gonna come out." 1937 01:24:43,333 --> 01:24:46,267 And I kind of had a feeling. I knew where he was heading, 1938 01:24:46,300 --> 01:24:47,600 where he was going with this. 1939 01:24:48,333 --> 01:24:49,600 And I let him go 1940 01:24:49,633 --> 01:24:53,667 and he starts saying, "I did it." 1941 01:24:53,700 --> 01:24:56,800 And I didn't really have to say, "What did you do, Rockets?" 1942 01:24:56,833 --> 01:25:00,567 He was talking about, you know, the book 1943 01:25:00,600 --> 01:25:03,767 and he was gonna let people know that he was the man. 1944 01:25:03,800 --> 01:25:06,433 There were rumors that it was Rockets Redglare. 1945 01:25:06,467 --> 01:25:09,467 But as I said, he was the first one insisting it wasn't Sid. 1946 01:25:09,500 --> 01:25:11,500 And I don't think someone who committed a murder 1947 01:25:11,533 --> 01:25:14,200 would look to clear Sid. 1948 01:25:14,233 --> 01:25:16,200 Um, also he was a meal... 1949 01:25:16,233 --> 01:25:18,200 Sid was Rocket's meal ticket at the time. 1950 01:25:18,233 --> 01:25:20,633 And I don't think he would jeopardize, 1951 01:25:20,667 --> 01:25:24,233 and he also like the notoriety of hanging out with Sid. 1952 01:25:24,267 --> 01:25:27,667 So, he definitely... When he knew the spotlight was on him, 1953 01:25:27,700 --> 01:25:30,667 he would, uh... He would spin a tale or two. 1954 01:25:32,433 --> 01:25:34,233 I'm going, "Hello, I'm Kathleen Wirt. 1955 01:25:34,267 --> 01:25:35,600 "I'm making a movie about Sid Vicious. 1956 01:25:35,633 --> 01:25:37,267 "I'm proving he didn't kill Nancy." 1957 01:25:37,300 --> 01:25:39,533 "Hello, I'm Kathleen Wirt. I'm making a movie..." You know. 1958 01:25:39,567 --> 01:25:43,500 And finally, I just said this offhand to this one girl. 1959 01:25:43,533 --> 01:25:45,633 And she goes, "Oh, my God. I know he didn't." 1960 01:25:45,667 --> 01:25:47,600 She goes, "That Michael guy was crazy." 1961 01:25:47,633 --> 01:25:49,533 We're having a meal before the gig. 1962 01:25:49,567 --> 01:25:52,533 And this kid was sitting with Nancy, 1963 01:25:52,567 --> 01:25:53,800 blond hair kid. 1964 01:25:53,833 --> 01:25:55,833 And I said, 1965 01:25:55,867 --> 01:25:58,400 "Your boyfriend lived at the Chelsea in 1978?" 1966 01:25:58,433 --> 01:26:00,600 She said, "Yeah." And I said, "Was he a junkie?" 1967 01:26:00,633 --> 01:26:02,433 And she goes, "Oh, yeah." 1968 01:26:02,467 --> 01:26:04,567 And I said to Sid, you know, 1969 01:26:05,667 --> 01:26:06,667 "Who is that?" 1970 01:26:08,233 --> 01:26:10,633 And he says, "Oh, that's Michael. 1971 01:26:10,667 --> 01:26:12,333 "Nancy really likes him." 1972 01:26:12,367 --> 01:26:14,233 She said that he lived on the sixth floor. 1973 01:26:14,267 --> 01:26:17,467 And that there was a group of actors that lived up there 1974 01:26:17,500 --> 01:26:19,833 that partied sometimes with Sid and Nancy. 1975 01:26:19,867 --> 01:26:22,330 Would go down to this first floor, 1976 01:26:22,670 --> 01:26:24,533 and that he was a part of this group of people. 1977 01:26:40,333 --> 01:26:42,600 You're kind a young, you know, maybe cute. 1978 01:26:42,633 --> 01:26:43,833 Maybe Nancy was cute... I don't know. 1979 01:26:43,867 --> 01:26:45,600 I don't know what kind of relationship they had. 1980 01:26:45,633 --> 01:26:47,233 Sid didn't really seem to mind at all. 1981 01:26:47,267 --> 01:26:48,633 So, I was like, "Okay." 1982 01:26:48,667 --> 01:26:50,633 And apparently he was there the night 1983 01:26:50,667 --> 01:26:52,333 that she was murdered. 1984 01:26:52,367 --> 01:26:53,767 NED: [SPEAKING] 1985 01:27:24,367 --> 01:27:26,633 This kid, um... 1986 01:27:26,667 --> 01:27:29,533 Definitely that the police wanted to find this guy, 1987 01:27:29,567 --> 01:27:31,300 very anxious to find this guy. 1988 01:27:31,333 --> 01:27:33,533 I felt that they thought, they knew 1989 01:27:33,567 --> 01:27:35,670 that this is the guy that did it. 1990 01:27:35,100 --> 01:27:36,233 As far as I was concerned, 1991 01:27:36,267 --> 01:27:38,433 I couldn't tell them a lot about this guy. 1992 01:27:38,467 --> 01:27:41,567 It was another guy who just appeared on the scene all of a sudden. 1993 01:27:41,600 --> 01:27:43,733 Michael had come upstairs, 1994 01:27:43,767 --> 01:27:46,467 after this had happened. 1995 01:27:46,500 --> 01:27:48,330 Sometime early in the morning. 1996 01:27:55,767 --> 01:27:57,800 WRIT: To everyone in the room, 1997 01:27:57,833 --> 01:28:00,267 when he said that Sid had killed her, 1998 01:28:00,300 --> 01:28:01,800 that no one believed him. 1999 01:28:01,833 --> 01:28:06,633 And that he had shown up with all of this cash, 2000 01:28:06,667 --> 01:28:09,467 tied up with Nancy's purple hair tie. 2001 01:28:09,500 --> 01:28:14,533 And they all identified this guy to the police supposedly. 2002 01:28:14,567 --> 01:28:18,233 Which is why I always thought that if someone got hold of the police file, 2003 01:28:18,267 --> 01:28:20,367 that his name would be in there. 2004 01:28:20,400 --> 01:28:21,667 They closed the book, 2005 01:28:21,700 --> 01:28:23,300 I think 'cause nothing ever came out about it. 2006 01:28:23,333 --> 01:28:26,267 Because nothing ever came out about this guy Michael. 2007 01:28:26,300 --> 01:28:27,567 Who he was, and... 2008 01:28:27,600 --> 01:28:30,433 But I do have a drawing I did of this guy. 2009 01:28:30,467 --> 01:28:31,467 I drew a picture of him 2010 01:28:32,533 --> 01:28:33,533 from memory. 2011 01:28:34,867 --> 01:28:37,567 'Cause I've never seen a document. 2012 01:28:37,600 --> 01:28:40,167 But I did a sketch of what I believe is this guy... 2013 01:28:40,200 --> 01:28:42,133 What I remember him looking like. 2014 01:28:45,133 --> 01:28:47,000 This is the guy that I think did it. 2015 01:28:48,267 --> 01:28:49,300 Michael. 2016 01:28:57,533 --> 01:28:59,533 NARRATOR: Every witness who visited Sid and Nancy 2017 01:28:59,567 --> 01:29:01,133 on the night of Nancy's death, 2018 01:29:01,167 --> 01:29:04,800 claims that Sid was out cold on Tuinal for seven hours. 2019 01:29:04,833 --> 01:29:08,133 This is backed up by Bellevue Hospital records. 2020 01:29:08,167 --> 01:29:09,433 There are fingerprints in the room 2021 01:29:09,467 --> 01:29:11,767 of six people known to the NYPD. 2022 01:29:11,800 --> 01:29:14,267 Yet, there is no police record of any of them 2023 01:29:14,300 --> 01:29:15,800 ever being questioned. 2024 01:29:15,833 --> 01:29:17,533 The murder weapon is wiped clean 2025 01:29:17,567 --> 01:29:19,133 of blood and fingerprints. 2026 01:29:19,167 --> 01:29:20,500 How did this happen? 2027 01:29:20,533 --> 01:29:24,330 A large amount of money simply disappears overnight. 2028 01:29:24,670 --> 01:29:25,467 How? Where to? 2029 01:29:26,100 --> 01:29:27,400 Who is Michael? 2030 01:29:27,433 --> 01:29:28,733 And why do so many people believe 2031 01:29:28,767 --> 01:29:30,733 he was involved in the murder? 2032 01:29:30,767 --> 01:29:33,233 In more than 30 years since Nancy's death, 2033 01:29:33,267 --> 01:29:34,333 none of these questions 2034 01:29:34,367 --> 01:29:36,167 have ever been satisfactorily answered. 2035 01:29:43,100 --> 01:29:44,733 [STATIC] 2036 01:29:49,667 --> 01:29:51,433 [ SOUL SURVIVOR PLAYING] 2037 01:29:54,567 --> 01:29:56,167 * I'm a soul survivor 2038 01:29:56,200 --> 01:29:58,233 * And I live in a world of tack 2039 01:30:00,433 --> 01:30:03,100 * Whatever they say it just Rolls right across my back 2040 01:30:03,133 --> 01:30:05,533 I actually saw The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle the other day. 2041 01:30:05,567 --> 01:30:06,800 It was funny watching Sid do 2042 01:30:06,833 --> 01:30:08,567 My Way and C'Mon Everybody. 2043 01:30:08,600 --> 01:30:12,767 You realize that he was and could have been a really great funk man. 2044 01:30:12,800 --> 01:30:15,100 But, hey, wasn't to be. 2045 01:30:15,133 --> 01:30:16,700 You know, he had a fantastic look. 2046 01:30:16,733 --> 01:30:19,733 He had the best image of all the punks at that time. 2047 01:30:19,767 --> 01:30:22,633 You know, he's still an icon. 2048 01:30:22,667 --> 01:30:24,600 JONES: The fact that 30 years later, 2049 01:30:24,633 --> 01:30:26,833 I can still sort of still go into a comic shop, 2050 01:30:26,867 --> 01:30:29,433 and still see him and buy a doll. 2051 01:30:29,467 --> 01:30:32,367 Uh, it's just, just is quite extraordinary. 2052 01:30:32,400 --> 01:30:33,700 KRIS: I recently had a recklessly 2053 01:30:33,733 --> 01:30:35,433 extravagant time in New York. 2054 01:30:35,467 --> 01:30:37,833 And I went to CBGB's as well 2055 01:30:37,867 --> 01:30:40,400 and there was a Bob Gruen exhibition there. 2056 01:30:40,433 --> 01:30:44,500 And Sid figures prominently throughout it all 2057 01:30:44,533 --> 01:30:46,433 as being the face of punk. 2058 01:30:46,467 --> 01:30:49,670 If he didn't die, I'd dare say he could have been playing at Vegas, 2059 01:30:49,100 --> 01:30:51,670 you know, might be 2060 01:30:51,100 --> 01:30:53,700 running through rock and roll numbers, 2061 01:30:53,733 --> 01:30:56,167 a few Sex Pistols numbers and a couple of Sinatras. 2062 01:30:57,400 --> 01:30:58,767 It's always the same, isn't it? 2063 01:30:58,800 --> 01:31:01,433 If you die that young, that tragically 2064 01:31:01,467 --> 01:31:04,670 in such a sensational spotlight like that, 2065 01:31:04,100 --> 01:31:07,367 um, you're almost sort of like in amber. 2066 01:31:07,400 --> 01:31:09,300 It's happened to so many people. 2067 01:31:09,333 --> 01:31:12,367 You can see it all from James Dean, Marilyn Monroe. 2068 01:31:12,400 --> 01:31:14,330 I've never met anybody like him. 2069 01:31:14,670 --> 01:31:17,333 I probably never will meet anyone like him again. 2070 01:31:18,800 --> 01:31:20,567 One unique character. 2071 01:31:20,600 --> 01:31:22,200 [ SOUL SURVIVOR PLAYING] 2072 01:31:22,233 --> 01:31:25,500 * And yesterday's flowers Will be placed upon your head 2073 01:31:27,633 --> 01:31:30,233 * So come on, come on Come on, come on 2074 01:31:30,267 --> 01:31:33,330 * Let's roll Through rings of fire 2075 01:31:33,670 --> 01:31:35,633 * Come on, come on Come on, come on 2076 01:31:35,667 --> 01:31:38,467 * Let's light This flames' desire 2077 01:31:38,500 --> 01:31:40,833 * So come on, come on Come on, come on 2078 01:31:40,867 --> 01:31:43,667 * Let's light this flaming fire 2079 01:31:43,700 --> 01:31:46,200 * So come on, come on Come on, come on 2080 01:31:47,167 --> 01:31:49,433 * Soul survivor 2081 01:31:49,467 --> 01:31:50,767 * Soul survivor 2082 01:31:50,800 --> 01:31:51,800 * Soul survivor 153587

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