Vicious in 1976 was more than the face of punk on a street level although he was that (Rotten the star, Vicious the man on the street), he was the face of face, the face of the UK, of England Dreaming: when you think about the limits of punk UK, you get to the image of Sid Vicious.
rock-pop stars have always wanted to wear stuff for shock value, decades ago many rockers found it was really cool to wear Nazi propaganda, from Sid Vicious to Scott Weiland, Lemmy, Jimmy Page,… while in the 90’s Axl Rose went on stage every night wearing a Charles Manson shirt and that was really stupid
. Truck Stop Gospel – Parker Millsap – Steve Crawford fave, raised in the Pentecostal Church till he found god in the open road as an Americana icon, the 20 year old emerging star does both god and Ameriman here: sorta Yankee Jake Buggs – A
I was still waiting outside when I heard the guitars, telling me there was some action happening on stage and I decided that, if I wanted to see something, I couldn’t respect the rules anymore… After all, they were celebrating punk history and anarchy, so it was time to try something a bit unruly
Why would Jagger have paid for the legal fee for Sid if he were accused of having murdered Spungen? Was he convinced he was innocent? The story has always been very muddy, it’s once again one of these mysterious stabbings which has never been clearly elucidated
