Dimensions
160 x 240 x 29mm
The old school register for Soho Parish Primary school has a note in the margin recording that five-year-old John Simon Ritchie turned up for his first day at school unaccompanied in September 1962. He'd walked from his mum's council flat near Drury Lane, across Covent Garden and several major road junctions to Gt Windmill Street alone.
Somehow it's a fitting start to the wild and troubled life that would be Sid Vicious'. It's also a story that's indicative of the detailed research Alan Parker has put into this biography of Sid Vicious He spent an evening discussing young Simon Ritchie's schooldays with the headmistress of Soho Parish, has interviewed the likes of fellow Sex Pistols Paul Cook and Glen Matlock at length, as well as numerous other punk luminaries. Parker brings a wealth of new detail to Sid's story, much gained from the NYPD and extensive interviews with Sid's mother prior to her suicide in 1996.
