Band Name: Sid Vicious
Music Album: Sid Sings
Album Release Date: December 1986
Music Genre: Punk Rock
Record Label: Virgin
Album Release Country: United Kingdom
Music Record Type: 11 Tracks Vinyl Album LP Reissue
Born May 10th 1957, as John Simon Ritchie, in London. He later adopted his stepfather's surname of Beverley. The "Sid" nickname was given to him by Johnny Rotten.
Described in his book by Johnny Rotten's father as a "suffering idiot", Vicious appeared briefly as the drummer for Siouxsie & The Banshees, and was also a member of the 'Flowers of Romance', before replacing Glen Matlock as bass player in the Sex Pistols, despite his recognised ineptitude on the instrument. After the break-up of the Sex Pistols, he performed with Johnny Thunders, solo, and with the one-off group Vicious White Kids - he performed with the latter at his farewell gig in July 1978, before moving to the USA.
On 12 October 1978, he was arrested for the murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen (2). Ten days later, he tried to kill himself, and was sent to Bellevue Hospital. On 2 February 1 (...)
| A1 | Born To Lose |
| A2 | I Wanna Be Your Dog |
| A3 | Take A Chance On Me |
| A4 | Stepping Stone |
| A5 | My Way |
| B1 | Belsen |
| B2 | Something Else |
| B3 | Chatterbox |
| B4 | Search And Destroy |
| B5 | Chinese Rocks |
| B6 | I Killed The Cat |
Reissue with Red/Green Virgin labels. No sticker, no poster and plain inner sleeve.
OVED 85 printed on rear sleeve. Yellow spine reads "SID VICIOUS VIRGIN RECORDS OVED 85"
Producer: The Engineer.
℗ 1979 Virgin Records Ltd. Ⓒ 1979 Virgin Records Ltd.
All songs recorded live at Max's Kansas City, New York, September 28th/29th/30th 1978 except A1: Ivanhoes Club, Huddersfield, December 25th 1977(last Pistols gig in the U.K.) and A5: studio version of "My Way" recorded at Studio de la Grande Armee in Paris 10th April 1978.
A1 - Heartbreakers Inc./Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd.
A2/B1 - Warner Bros Music Ltd.
A3 - Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd.
A4 - Screen Gems/Columbia
A5/B6 - Shapiro Bernstein & Co Ltd
B2 - Burlington Music Ltd.
B3 - Island Music Ltd
B4 - Mainman Ltd
B5 - Copyright Control. The writing credits for this song have since been amended to Dee Dee Ramone/Richard Hell.
All performing, design, production, recorded at, engineering info is uncredited on the record.
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