Sid Vicious' Final Interview

The last interview with Bernard Clarke in late 1978. You can see Michelle Robison holding Sid's leg at the start.

[@gps8958]

Young people, this isn't cool, this is depressive addiction at it worst.

[@absolving]

Vicious should never be looked up to

[@gps8958]

@Hartley Hare Well done for reclaiming your life

[@matedobrossy1021]

@Hartley Hare Well done buddy! Take care.

[@JB_exposures]

I seriously doubt any of my peers think this is cool

[@gps8958]

@@JB_exposures Sid was and still is, seen as an anti hero who lived fast and died young and gave two fingers to life. Believe it or not I was a kid at the sex pistols peak and most of my peers and I foolishly thought Sid and the rest were cool. Seeing what addiction and abuse cause have long since changed our adult minds.

[@Stinkepunker74]

Sid looks absolutely depressed and destroyed and merely like a lost boy than an adult man.

[@root6683]

ML8593wy lol, a normal person would be depressed after loosing close person, but your assumption is false here, Sid is not normal he is psychopath . This is why ppl fall for psychopaths --- they ASSUME they have feelings like the rest of us ,

[@root6683]

ML8593wy lol, a normal person would be depressed after loosing close person, but your assumption is false here, Sid is not normal he is psychopath . This is why ppl fall for psychopaths --- they ASSUME they have feelings like the rest of us . He cares only about himself, he 'just wants to have fun'

[@emilyclarke2780]

Peter F He was not a psychopath, he was a drug addict.

[@root6683]

Amanda Shears drug addict AND psychopath ... most drug addicts are psychopaths anyway

[@miked9466]

Peter F: Most drug addicts feel a lot of pain and medicate to not feel the way they do. The drugs turn on them and turn them into something else. Most drug addicts do not know why they feel the way they do till its to late. Pain, confusion, depression and hurting etc. If drug addicts knew why they feel like that they could work on themselves. I know first hand.

[@7720jojo]

i can't believe he actually asked sid if he had fun at the moment. geez, the woman he loved just fucking died, what kind of question is that?

[@zuN-ch5ed]

Jay H well, but it was Sid that killed her, so Sid should have known better before killing Nancy. Honestly Sid was a very destructive and self destructive kind of person, even more than Nancy probably. He was the cause of his own pain.

[@keelyjohnston19]

@@zuN-ch5ed was you there. Cause if you wasn't then how do you no he killed her.

[@zuN-ch5ed]

keely johnston what a stupid answer! In that fucking hotel room there was just Sid and Nancy, so who the hell could have killed her? What kind of justification is “I was sleeping”? If someone is being murdered in your same hotel room, how can you not hear any noise or see anything? And knowing how fucked up Sid was, it would not be so surprising if he would kill someone. Then keep defending your idol, bro. Even if it is quite clear that he killed Nancy, keep being in denial.

[@zuN-ch5ed]

Many squirrel's, like at least 16 squirrel's I know that there are some rumours about her meeting drug dealers on that night, you dumb ass! But I still don’t believe it, I still think it was Sid. Then you cannot say this story like if this was the official one, since those are just rumours. And it was Sid the one who were charged for her murder, but then he died. The drug dealer story is just a speculation. So shut up you idiot

[@sname774]

no one can truly know what happened there

[@cybrunel1016]

Sid was a manic depressive, probably never had fun in his life, he was abused as a child by alcoholic/drug addict parents. His mum started him on heroin, the poor lad didn't stand a chance. RIP.

[@ttbb7342]

I know him personally from hackney

[@johnobrien6484]

@@ttbb7342 no ya dont

[@lemonchicken507]

Paraphrasing John Lydon

[@sexobscura]

he was simply psychotic

[@bosesebi6685]

Parents to be need to have a permit, license to have kid. Or permanent contraceptives, from state.

[@holliehopewell4306]

This is the first time I have ever actually heard sid speak. This really isn't the voice I was expecting, he sounded so soft and depressed. But ultimately in the end he got what he wanted and I hope he was happy in the end

[@holliehopewell4306]

@TUbIuyola I have diverse music taste lmao

[@TrashIncorperated]

@@holliehopewell4306 my favorite singer is Elliott Smith, I don’t just like sex pistols

[@TheRichEDagger]

He wasnt happy bro. He died sad and alone

[@holliehopewell4306]

@@TheRichEDagger everyone dies alone, and he literally wanted to die young so he got want he wanted which would have made him happy.

[@ellenoniell8093]

I really didnt expect him to have a British accent honestly

[@NONAME66692]

Reporter: Where would you like to be? Sid: Under the ground -That made me cry

[@paulsimpson4155]

Yes so sad so young poor kid !

[@nicparker3809]

drugs made him kill his GF. one bag of dope and 2 people means trouble.

[@hykalgamerz7056]

Agnes Larsson yeah me too

[@cheesetomato9140]

Spoken like a true arsehole or what? He made his mistake getting with the yank bitch

[@filipematias5127]

@@nicparker3809 : No one knows who killed Nancy!

[@user-kz6dy4yo5x]

man, he sounds so tired/so world-weary & disillusioned. Nobody should be this way at the goddamn age of 21. RIP always

[@colinharnack4033]

🤔 prayers

[@MVHS85]

@Juan Perez You will..... trust me, I'm 52 going on 53......

[@josephconsoli4128]

His mentally disturbed mother damaged him badly. What comes out of you is exactly what is in you. The gross self-abuse of his body says it all. I've known people that have a wonderful loving person deep down in them, but they've been too damaged to ever let that side of them out. Unless they agree to spend a lifetime in therapy and on medications, they're destiny is a dark one.

[@jasonapplebaum9871]

Lil peep

[@rockkjjuice7514]

Drugs?

[@Seventeen_Seconds]

Doesn’t matter how you feel about the Pistols and Sid, this is hard to watch

[@Seventeen_Seconds]

@Mister Problematic 😂

[@peterburry2014]

​@Mister Problematic Maybe you could share the footage so that we can all be judge and jury

[@xgeex7540]

EXACTLY

[@lovethyneighbor6886]

Not really, I don’t feel bad for murderers. He is burning in hell right now.

[@Seventeen_Seconds]

@@lovethyneighbor6886 it was never even proved he did it

[@TheArtofGuitar]

Man that hit hard.

[@kmpro3737]

haha

[@mikehunt5134]

Hey friend, I hope you know that you are always loved and supported!!! As a human being first and foremost, and as a KZbin of course too. Your videos are awesome man, they're helping me and so many others in so many different ways!!! I love you brother. Never forget you are loved and supported. You are worth all of the beauty this world has to offer. Never forget that man. Rock on, much love, and always be exactly who you are. You're worth it all ❤💙💜💗

[@cboisandlin9601]

Almost as hard as this kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3vPYWmkrbWomJo

[@davidn.211]

@@cboisandlin9601 Oh no!

[@dahliafiend]

Ya. I feel like this all the time. It’s not good.

[@trilogiedelarche]

Poor kid. Parents break up after his birth. Mom deals drugs in Ibiza and abandons him back in London, when he was only 8... Never had a dad to talk to, never had a mum to care for him. He was just trying to put up a face, when deep inside he was empty and insecure... :(

[@silviazanicotti5054]

John Lydon was - and is - a good person, beyond the somewhat bizarre appearance... genuine and fundamentally kind, the sweet Punk you don't expect. The only one who briefly managed to give him some security and who, despite his young age at the time, could have taken care of him infinitely better than his mother...Rip Sid

[@alisia413]

so young and so exhausted

[@giftigebiene7431]

+Alex Lourette that's strange, there's nowhere on wikipedia a page on Alex Lourette. Where do you belong? Should I search "toilet", right?

[@basanistes359]

+Alex Lourette Sid Vicious. A name I know. Alex Lourette....Who are you again?

[@thebatman4279]

The Kardashians have a Wikipedia page. What's your point?

[@basanistes359]

StrokeMeYouInsolentHumanCuzIAmACat The Kardashians are better then you. That's my point.

[@filipematias5127]

@ML8593wy : That's pure speculation!

[@Graciemh43]

He never did have a chance that kid

[@youandwhosearmy6339]

+Gracie H not with the mother he had no

[@lazzypuppets2929]

Me neither

[@cheesetomato9140]

He had a bigger chance than most young people, look at The other band members, especially John Lydon? mind you, he had a brain unlike old Sid?

[@cheesetomato9140]

@Dat tizio What the hell have I said? read it again Pigeon brain' I have said ''He had a brain unlike Sid?''

[@breannebellezza9755]

No he didn't have a chance. Poor baby. He did not get the help he desperately needed and deserved.

[@itsemily1995]

"Where would you like to be?" "Under the ground." "Are you serious?" "Oh yeah." :(

[@JTRocks4Ever]

This man has to be one of the saddest cases in the rock world. He never had a chance at a good life. He self harmed with drugs and cutting himself because he harbored so much rage and sadness. I've always felt so sorry for him and I hope he found some peace in the afterlife.

[@holliehopewell4306]

He needed help but no one paid much attention, especially back in the 70s getting help for mental health issues was difficult, even more so if you were a male. He wanted to die young though, he probably would have wound up dying in a similar age in a similar way if he hadn't of joined the pistols and met nancy. All he wanted to do was see her again, he was probably happy knowing he may have been able to

[@JTRocks4Ever]

@@holliehopewell4306 its still hard to get help for mental problems and drug addiction today too. It helps if you are surrounded by people who want to help you rather than people feeding you more drugs. He already had a new girlfriend and was moving on so I don't think he wanted to join Nancy. It was a stupid accidental overdose because he had actually detoxed in prison. Again, if he wasn't around other junkies he might have been able to overcome his issues, other people have.

[@holliehopewell4306]

@@JTRocks4Ever he said in his suicide note that he couldn't go on without her and he wanted to be buried next to his baby. He did want to be with her. Whether he had a new girlfriend or not, that was probably him trying to move on from it in that moment. It wasn't an accidently overdose or else he wouldn't have written that note saying goodbye and saying what he wanted to be buried in and where. He couldn't move on from her, she was his first love

[@holliehopewell4306]

@@JTRocks4Ever yes other people have overcome their addictions when they aren't around other addicts but plenty aren't able to. I had a cousin who was addicted to heroin from the age of 14. And she died recently despite everyone trying to help her. Addiction and mental health are a difficult thing. He wanted to die young anyway, so no matter how he went he got his wish

[@JTRocks4Ever]

@@holliehopewell4306 no one wants to die young, they only think they do when they are at that low point and get no help.

[@MikeGervasi]

I've heard a few interviews where Sid was clean and he was amazingly brilliant and well spoken. Poor kid never had a chance.

[@Teeb2023]

Amazingly brilliant? can you elaborate on that?

[@holliehopewell4306]

@@Teeb2023 Rotton said before the drugs and the pistols, sid was funny, full of life and just a laugh to be around. And while he was clean he did briefly go back to that state. That's probably what they meant

[@TheMaxKids]

@@Teeb2023 I’d like to hear this as well. 😂

[@carlosdeno]

@@Teeb2023 😂😂😂

[@88hyperman]

His stupid mom got him into drugs

[@fever_spike]

“Are you having fun at the moment?” Seriously, though-what the fuck kinda question is that to ask at that particular point in time?

[@andredmtr]

I feel bad for Sid, he was totally wasted when she died, he barely remembers anything from that night as noticed in this footage, I think that, even if he had in fact killed her, he wouldn't remember doing it.

[@allforfun3608]

+André Pansera really jim u died before him

[@breannebellezza9755]

He didn't kill Nancy and he would have been fully acquitted. He would have had a very hard time getting better afterward. It would have taken a lot of therapy and intervention but it would have happened eventually.

[@jdoritohead4983]

Breanne Bellezza bruh he definitely killed Nancy

[@breannebellezza9755]

@@jdoritohead4983 No he didn't. He would have been fully acquitted. Look at the evidence before you go accusing someone, you idiot.

[@breannebellezza9755]

@@jdoritohead4983 Also, I am not your bruh.

[@lazydaisydays]

I blame his parents. His dad left, and his mother chose drugs and put him in this lifestyle. He was a tortured soul.

[@ClaudeMagicbox]

lazydaisydays His mother actually bought him the deadly heroin overdose... She brought an amount that was normal for a hardcore 24/7 addicts while he had just come out of prison after months of abstinence.

[@jasonsabourin2275]

@@ClaudeMagicbox the dope that she got was very strong, there was word that some people were over dosing, but the word never got to those two, At least not to Sid....... Maybe? I've Read different accounts from different people of that day/night. More or Less Hearsay.

[@saxongreen78]

...she might have even bodily rigged up his last shot, if the rumour is to be believed.

[@stellalewis9855]

The music industry put him the position of being a sacrifice

[@sexobscura]

thanks Sigmund

[@margueritemazzeo2904]

Wanting to be under the ground at 21..so heartbreaking to watch this..RIP Sid..😭😭💐🥀

[@krisgrym]

I did with 13

[@leafflavoredbleach2740]

“I’m not having fun at all” I felt that

[@flannerymonaghan-morris7461]

So heartbreaking. You can see the heartbroken look in his eyes and face, and that thousand yard stare…it’s haunting. Of course, mental health counseling back in the 70’s wasn’t as good as it was now, but no one came to help him. I’m a year older than he was when he died, and I cannot help but think….what if someone had given Sid to rehab first? What would he be like if he got sober and clean today? So sad…

[@jlcrproductions301]

nancy was the only person sid had, he lost contact with Johnny and he probably didnt see his mum much so he was obviously not going to live on without nancy, it was only a matter of time before sid killed himself

[@jansandman6983]

he's got no mental health issues, he is broken and wasted because he was a drug addict. he should instead remembered as what kids don't want to do. I know he's famous and all but a junkie is still a junkie. there is nothing commendable about it.

[@holliehopewell4306]

@@jlcrproductions301 he always said he wanted to die young anyway. Johnny once said that he blamed himself for sids death because he was the one who got him into the band, but he probably would have wound up going the same way no matter what, especially given his childhood. That quote at the start was basically his version of live fast die young

[@mrjonesandme8848]

Mental health services are far, far far worse now. Once the government and insurance got involved, they stopped treating people and instead give them pills that fuxk their brains up

[@hollywoodCam4747]

Counseling is worse now. Most ppl today have psychological issues

[@Chicharrera.]

Everyone thought it was all an act, an image, that he was simply trying to be cool or a tough guy. But in reality, he was in deep, torturous, inescapable emotional pain. It was never an act. It was just his reality. His own private hell. He was mesmerised by whatever images, thoughts and memories were running through his minds eye.

[@Nickk81]

💔💔💔💔💔

[@chloechlorine13]

Heartbreaking.

[@Ray-si9co]

x 10 really.

[@xgeex7540]

@Joe Bloggs his brain have been so affected by the amount of alcohol and drugs he's been taking...But anyway, where'd u got that info? I mean for real...i wanna know

[@sexobscura]

I just suffered a cardio-aneurysm

[@-valentino-qvq1699]

@Joe Bloggs Proof

[@davidn.211]

@Joe Bloggs Hell is not real.

[@surfsup5757]

Sid's brush with greatness came with the ultimate price. Sometimes the dragon wins and takes you and all you love with it. RIP Sid and Nancy.

[@holliehopewell4306]

He lived the way he wanted to, he had fun, did what he wanted and died young which is something he'd wanted since he was a teen. In the end he was probably just happy he might get the chance to see nancy again. While I don't like her ik she had her own issues and needed help. They both did

[@surfsup5757]

@@holliehopewell4306 He wore the punk badge with honor and tried to live up the lifestyle. Ultimately, it ate him up and took him down.

[@holliehopewell4306]

@@surfsup5757 that is very true. He wasn't built to take the lifestyle he wanted at qll

[@erbakkkk111]

We can see the sadness in his eyes, he was really depressed and I wish I could give him a big hug. He needed help, a lot of help. R.I.P dear Sid.

[@toiletpaper5770]

I see alot of comments about how broken he looks. I think when you live your life the wrong way, it wears on you. I feel younger now at 41 than I did during my drug years.

[@davidmarchant9386]

He lived a tough life no therapy back then just face the music. All drugs mess u up but at the young age they're needed to escape. Look at ozzy now looks amazing to what he has 20-30 years ago

[@pluviophile1988]

Imagine if someone acted like this in an interview now. The producers would bury IT under the ground. Can't be THIS real today!

[@amandalawson6828]

These days it would be all over social media

[@JDD1217]

He actually looked a lot more sober and healthy here than a lot of others videos I’ve seen, a lot of other times his face looked more bloated and his skin looked unhealthy too

[@jesstv3341]

He’d not long been released from Riker’s where he’d undergone an enforced detox.

[@deathknigt3000]

Sid:"I'd like to have fun...any kind of fun. Just fun. That's my object in life." Interviewer: "Are you having fun at the moment?" Sid: "Are you kidding? I'm not having fun at all..." Damn, that hurt :(

[@amylee4965]

Yelp that's right it becomes no fun when you have to have it to just stay well its not the high any more its just to be well! It takes your body's morphine away so with out you'll get very sick worst file ever and no energy at all and takes a while before your body's morphine to regain so it ends up a vicious cycle

[@sexobscura]

We don't need what we just watched transcribed

[@susanacarmacio7401]

Be in Peace Sid Vicious, without passing cloth to you or to anyone, but your childhood was very bad with you, Sid Vicious, needed a lot of help and had little "It". But it became a legend.

[@anitabonghit9415]

are you kidding.....i'm not having any funatall

[@pierrenic.7682]

clearly a tragedy ...

[@bradygibson2125]

No fun

[@nelsonx5326]

This is very sad. Imagine waking up to find out you killed the person you loved most.

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

You mean to find most people assumed you did. It could've been a dope dealer for all you know. Do you know how many seedy character hung around Chelsea back then!

[@Mr75044]

@@ADAMSIXTIES exactly what I thought....you owe the dealer's in the states life is cheap......

[@Mr75044]

@@ADAMSIXTIES PS Keith Richards has admitted packin while dealing with dealer's over the pond...

[@MultiSuperguy101]

S. Adam Bernstein Pretty sure it was him who did it.

[@kitten170]

Everyone who went into the room had seen that he was passed out on a mattress. They even spoke about Nancy having at least $3,000 on her at all times and always dropping 100's everywhere. Sid didn't kill Nancy. Sid was too messed up to even wake up. In their interview Sid was nodding out from heroine and when Nancy said, "oh no sid!" It shook him out of it and he became concerned for her. He loved her alot. The night she died he had taken pills and couldn't have woken up. Plus, when Sid and Nancy would argue, everyone would hear them. That night there was no arguments. Sid woke up and Nancy was dead. The money was gone and the knife that killed her was wiped clean. Sid would have been covered in blood if he did it and IF he was even the slightest bit coherent to wake up and kill her (which he couldn't have possibly been) then why would he rob (basically himself) and clean the knife? People seen a man in the room that night with them. He was the killer. But it's easy to close a case cause they were junkies.

[@pollokpark8841]

He was so bloody young! R.I.P. love Gone, but not forgotten. Ever.

[@danielaschwarz1971]

I will never forget Sid and i can understand him why he was sometimes nasty,i read a lot of him and he had a bad childhood,what a pity that he died and yeah he was so bloody young and he was in his heart a nice boy...sorry for my bad english i am german.....R.I.P my Sid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@stevemcniel5513]

Daniela Schwarz sid would've been 60 today.

[@norahteresagomez9020]

Sid Vicious will never be forgotten

[@karendelaurey3319]

Pollok Park oh fuck off he was a fucking junkie

[@spaced6782]

Karen Delaurey if you grew up seeing your mom do heroin, you probably would be too.

[@Sameoldfitup]

“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.” ― Leonardo da Vinci.

[@helenwaldron5858]

Bless him and thst bitch mother gave her 16 year old son heroin?! RIP. XXX😩😩😩🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😭

[@ilovesammy3657]

He loved her though which is so odd but so sweet as well.

[@freeheadmess]

If a celebrity had said that on film now, "under the ground" then they would have some kind of help forced upon them. well, hopefully.

[@GianniEndo]

Unlikely, unfortunately. Can't help those unwilling to help themselves

[@KuroMicra]

Such a poor guy. Misled and unfortunately easily influenced by all the trappings of stardom that ultimately killed him. Still struck by the interview with John Lydon on Filth and the Fury where he breaks down after admitting he felt so guilty over John (Sid's) death.

[@secondchance6603]

@@Tom-uv7ry This is true.

[@Teeb2023]

_"...where he breaks down "_ Wow... you fell for that? lol.

[@Konalo]

Sid was abused growing up. His mom was a drug addict when he grew up and Sid lost his dad when he was 7 years old. He couldn't find the fun he wanted. Even while he was a part of the sex pistols. Him losing Nancy did him even worse. Personally I think Sid committed suicide in February 1979, since he was released from prison a day after, but that's still entirely debatable. Also his mom killed herself in 1996.

[@daplayer1098]

In a different world... You are so lucky sid, so lucky.

[@jhrockgod]

He would be 63 years of old if he were alive today, hard to get your head around that watching this clip.

[@thenotchosen]

I am in my 50's now and when I loved the sex pistols as a young man sid was the coolest rock n roll star in the world and now I look and see a sad story of a young man caught by heroin , A lot of people hate Sid but I Hate heroin

[@ttbb7342]

Alot of people don't know him but l do personaly

[@sexobscura]

I can't hate someone I didn't know

[@cellarentertainment5988]

I met Sid one time in black pool and you could tell he was super dooped on heroin cause he kept kneeling down and almost passing out and when he would get up it would be like he was bi polar and mad at everyone around him. Crazy times

[@aimfuldrifter]

That's what heroin does to you.

[@Danigilmore06]

It's so sad how he went from the sweet kid who was a part of a group in highschool called the 4 John's to a addict he deserved so much better ❤️

[@cazza649]

My father in law met him and sat in a pub talking about life before a gig, from what I can gather from my f-i-L said about the 15 minute chat he really was just a kid, who wanted to live his best life, but couldn’t believe his luck. Nancy and the drug fuelled lifestyle just created a perfect storm for a kid who just wanted get away from his crappy life with a junkie mum

[@TheShaitan2000]

The worst part about his death is that Johnny Rotten says he himself is to blame for everything that happened. There's no one to blame but Vicious parents. The guy never had a healthy environment to begin with.

[@sexobscura]

I read an interview where John said that Sid could go off and die and no one would care. His revisionist history strikes me of amnesia-martydom. John is a very cluey individual, but he's also prone to human foibles like the rest of us

[@josephgonzales8897]

With a Mom like his, he never stood a chance in life...

[@SuperAnimelover100]

You told the TRUTH and nothing but the TRUTH !

[@MaryFenstermacher]

He meant my mom

[@SuperAnimelover100]

@@MaryFenstermacher Yikes.

[@R36vw]

A true legend but pushed the wrong way by his mum. Bless you Sid. R.I.P. gone but never forgotten. A mere boy. Crying out from the inside for help.

[@lolcool7309]

We love you john ritchie ❤️

[@enzomaidana5369]

This guy always spoke the truth. And he said they had a death pact which is not that uncommon in couples or brothers suffering. Rest in peace both.

[@michaelhauser6440]

He said what he felt. Doesn't necessarily make him a smart guy tho

[@issyeboi2060]

feel sad for him.. but can’t get over he killed a cat. sorry but you hurt animals, first signs of psychopath/ even future serial killer in worst cases

[@_funerxl._.miisanthropy_]

I don't really like him, but i do respect him. This guy really suffered, he grow up on the street, his parents lefted him, he was a big drug and alcohol addict, the poor boy never had a chance. Rest in peace, dude, hope you are finally in peace

[@ЕленаШайтерова-ы6я]

Талантливый парень был! Сгубили... Никто не помог... Жаль... Очень жаль... Так мало прожил... Легенда! Будет жить вечно!

[@Elm_street1428]

Он был несчастным ребёнком, который, по сути, никому не был нужен. Но вот чем он талантлив я не пойму?...

[@alisia413]

@@Elm_street1428 Как это чем? Был фронтменом известной группы, вошёл в историю рока.

[@katana9647]

He looks destroyed in this interview man :(

[@paigemarie5586]

yea because, the women he loved just died.

[@kegadolll]

It hits close to home with myself since I wholly relate and recall the sort of feelings that propel one to fix their gaze at nothing, wanting nothing, and feeling like I've lost everything with no will to keep going. That is why this interview always stuck in my head for a long time. I don't know if Sid ever had a chance considering that on top of everything else, there was no shortage of other punk kids and fans piling on each other to give him free drugs along with his mother more than content to apparently shoot him up a fatal dose in some act of mercy. Sid was a human being and I think a lot of people forget that when they deify him as a punk rock image for T-shirts rather than realizing he was the son of a drug addict mother who didn't even make it past 21.

[@adrianboyddodd8007]

That is the real Sid. No mask, no interest in shocking anyone like you would usually see. He is completely transparent here. That is the biggest clue you can get that he is done at this point.

[@A_M_P_]

I've been through that type of addiction, and that darkness was inside me at one point. That feeling of fuck the world, I'd rather be high or dead. Maybe that darkness is still inside me, lying dormant. Either way I hope it never comes up again. Life is so fucking precious. Don't get into drugs please.

[@Driessens_Peter]

word!

[@happybee7725]

The over dose that killed him was intentional . He used the heroin to commit suicide. His mother found his suicide note in his jacket a week after his funeral. I kinda don’t blame him. He was facing a long sentence for murdering Nancey and Sid wasnt a tough guy. He would have got eaten alive in prison.

[@jackthegamer510]

Hard to feel sorry for this guy, he abused and tortured animals, smashed a broken bottle into a man’s face, beat a man with a bike lock and god knows whether he murdered and abused his girlfriend or not. I understand heroin makes you go nuts but never thought people would do such damnedest things like that. He should've thought twice, but never did. To me, that's not punk.

[@stevobath]

It was a toxic relationship. She was a leech & they were just being junkies together which is never a good idea especially so when you are barely out of your' teens. Sad she died & almost sadder that Sids Mum gave him his final OD. All the Pistols said that she was bad for him. Sometimes only other people can see how bad someone or thing is for you & how it's destroying you. People did try & help but maybe not enough? Still. They'll never get old.

[@MVHS85]

He wanted to "have fun"....not "be happy".... i love the music but I think there's a difference--a LIFE-SAVING difference-- between those two.....and trust me, I'm still struggling with it

[@davidn.211]

Sid had the great misfortune of meeting Nancy Spungen. Nancy had a death-wish. She was very mentally disturbed and tricked Sid into falling for her and agreeing to sharing her death wish. Poor Sid was not Nancy's first choice of victim, she first tried to get to Jerry Nolan, and then to Johnny Rotten, before finally entrapping Sid. She re-introduced Sid to heroin and got him hooked which was the vehicle for his death. Their love for each other burned hotter than any flame, but it was a twisted and killing type of love. They fought constantly, and violently. They were matter and anti-matter, doomed to destroy each other.

[@jollychild5842]

Man that was poetic

[@TheSWolfe]

Been there, (barely) survived that; but yr pretty spot-on. Add to that everything that came before (upbringing/homelife) & volatile becomes the familiar, steady-state. Yeah, Nancy fucked up punk, for Syd & in general, but it's easy to get caught-up, esp when already wounded. It was a great time to be self-destructive. These kids weren't alone in that respect. It was the perfect pay-back for being robbed at birth. It might destroy u end the end, but boy we sure showed them, didn't we? You know, the I'll kill myself before I'll let u drive me crazy mindset? Punkrock was perfect for that. Doomed by choice isn't always as cut & dry as it seems. Rock in Peace & Blessed be the Broken.

[@jakestroll6518]

Two mentally people on hard drugs met, the obvious outcome happened and here you are doing somersaults 40 years later. You ain't too bright are you?

[@cre8lite11]

I can’t stand their music but there’s something very moving about Sid. Underneath it all he seemed a sweet Taurus That was misled by both his mother and his girlfriend who had something in common, yet to him this was perhaps how he was unknowingly trapped By being victimized

[@daveyboots79]

​@@jollychild5842 If you thought that was poetic you should try the bible. It's been painting women as vile beguiling tricksters long before that comment... when two people tango misogyny and male hero worship are still being played out in the public eye to this day. Both of these kids were failed by their parents, but Sid was a violent train wreck long before he met Nancy. Yes she was disturbed, but to hold her personally responsible for his demise, given that she was already a corpse (allegedly he killed her) before he departed... is kinda sick. But that's the world they lived in

[@raindrops21_9]

Just a messed up kid who no one cared enough about to help him see there was a reason to live. I think everyone got their 'pound of flesh' from him and them left him to his own (tragic) devices.

[@peace-tx6xu]

Sid you are pure.

[@paulsimpson4155]

This is very sad really he would be the same age s me now I wonder how he would be ! What a waste !L

[@pierrenic.7682]

such a shame... but millions kids are dying this way or another and nobody care

[@fiendymisfits1734]

@@pierrenic.7682 such a shame that you're talking about millions of kids dying that nobody cares.

[@Cola64]

I can remember being young once and me and all my friends would pretty much suggest the same outcome in our lives as we would sit around doing what young people did waay back when for some it came true and for others well we're still around..."Youth is wasted on the young"

[@crybabygbc1026]

I said I would be dead by 30 now I'm 34 so hoping by 35. I'm tired and exhausted from years of depression and self medicating with hard drugs. Im also not saying this for anyones sympathy just expressing myself. Only thing keeping me here is not wanting to hurt my mother. 👉😇

[@4luK4rD1]

It will get better brother, keep fighting.

[@ilovesammy3657]

I feel suicidal now that my mom has died. She was my bestest buddy and now she is gone. No one will ever love me the way she did.

[@4luK4rD1]

@@ilovesammy3657 I’m so sorry to hear that man, may she rest in peace... It sounds like you cherished her so much and I’m sure you were the best son she could’ve ask for. Stay strong 💪

[@davidn.211]

At 52 my life is too painful to live. We need assisted suicide for this.

[@harveysengersmusic247]

Sid was a kid that went in way over his head. They never talked about how those boys where encouraged to do the crazy stuff so the adults behind them could keep counting the money, but nobody ever stepped in to protect them from fames dangers. Heroin is no joke.

[@FetishonyoutubeURL]

Sid vicious is the epitome of rebellion and angst.

[@alloutofbubblegum9223]

Sid Vicious is the epitome of being completely up ones own arse.

[@stevieweebi]

This really hurt to watch, he was so young.

[@sexobscura]

He was really 307

[@Simon-pl2zi]

it's astounding that so many people idolized Sid...sad really.

[@Wedneswere]

There should have been an intervention right here at this moment.

[@krashd]

Francis Tokarski Then he would have spent the next 30 years in prison.

[@Wedneswere]

+Rob Fraser Good point.

[@Wedneswere]

+dave setchell Too bad the movie doesn't show this.

[@alexlourette7353]

Dave who cares he's dead now he was a worthless no talent piece of trash in life n the same now that he's dead good riddens the world don't need this junkie in it fuck him n fuck the talentless sex pistols they were awful n none of them even played there instrument right i hope he is rotting in hell he was a waste of space

[@iamme2253]

+Alex Lourette If you hate Sid and think the Sex Pistols are awful, why are you here watching the clip?? Makes no sense.

[@deb8498]

God Bless this sad young soul..🕊🌿 Never Give up Have hope 🕊🌿💚🍃

[@davidn.211]

He died.

[@deb8498]

@@davidn.211 If your asking me a question.. Here is an answer .. It is a positive message to anyone who feels the same mind set... As such a negative mindset kills.. Yes he is dead.. You bless his soul...

[@heatherg.9999]

Sid vicious.. what a sad sad individual..what a waste of a life. So young.. so full of depression..like this guy sees himself dead under the ground...weird..perhaps it is all the drugs...

[@deanbrandt2748]

In truth he was a real nice guy but he didn’t make the right choices unfortunately. His mother was a heroin addict who even gave him his last shot to spare him from a possible life prison sentence for stabbing Nancy. I don’t think he did it. Someone else did. The other band members hated Nancy. Just a thought. 🤔

[@ilovesammy3657]

Why did they hate Nancy so much?!

[@davidn.211]

@@ilovesammy3657 Because she was a bad influence on Sid.

[@johnthatcher2349]

Sid was always going to end up dead early . At least he was a somebody as he died. Sad but that's how it went for him

[@belindamartinez3985]

Poor Sid: he thought he was having fun until the reality of his lifestyle hit him hard. It also hit Nancy hard, poor girl too. Two broken people living the rock & roll lifestyle to the limit, hooked on drugs to hide from their demons and living together in the same (small) space: it was certainly a recipe for disaster. It wasn't properly investigated so you can't trust the accuracy of the evidence that has been reported, and you certainly can't trust the statements given by the kind of people who lived or "moved around" the Chelsea Hotel. We'll probably never know what happened exactly. RIP Nancy and Sid.

[@Tracy_Burns]

Well said.. ✌️💜

[@femke6313]

Nancy used to fight with her dealer all the time. Because his shit was often weak. We know this from ceveral sources. We also know that Nancy picked fights if she was drunk. In her system a lot of drugs and alcohol were found. She first laid in the bed after being stabbed somewhere else. Than went to the bathroom and she passed out from blood loss and fell down to her death. Sid was found with no blood on him passed out against the wall, his knife clean laying on the opposite side of the room and a bloody knife that was bought in the treet that day by an unknown person. When a friend came to meet up he saw the blood and called the cops. Sid with enough booze and drugs in his system had to be carried out as he was barely able to stand. The officers said to him he killed her and her repeated it. Later when he was sober he denied he killed her and has no memory of the evening. All he knew the took drugs and he had fallen asleep.

[@femke6313]

When he got arrested he was raped in prison and when Malcom got him out he slit his wrists in the bathroom and when he returned from the hospital his mother picked him up. She bought heroine for him. One of the friends who was also present remembers his mom being asked to help him shoot up some more and she gave him a dosage that would have killed a horse. The same woman who gave him drugs on his 16th birthday and was a junky for as long as sid had lived. Sid didn't have a chance ... anywhere he was doomed from the start.

[@locromalo6199]

@@femke6313 Where are you from? That was interesting.

[@femke6313]

@@locromalo6199 I'm from Belgium. I was obsessed(!) With the s*x pistols and I have done soooooo much research about it. Seen every interview and even talked to John lydon when he was in Belgium making a TV program.

[@reccotop]

Who gets involved with heroin has this end...

[@julialovesnancy81]

my heart breaks for him here. his voice is completely worn and he just sounds so, so depressed.

[@superbrit3845]

Looks absolutely horrendous for a 21 year old, the drugs really did finish him off. You know nothing at 21 so it's sad that he did not get the help to get out of his turmoil and live longer as if he did I'm sure he'd of been grateful for an extended life.

[@meralEdwtDawlatly]

Go search on Google who made him die before you talk like shit on him like that .... Bitch his own mother didn't give him a grave and he had darkness around him and you coming over to say this shit

[@jgreen8220]

He definitely looks 21. He looks like a little kid really, albeit a scruffy dirty one

[@Eric-gv4di]

I'm starting to relate to him more every day.

[@Tom-uv7ry]

Then you're a joke

[@Eric-gv4di]

@@Tom-uv7ry I said that a long time ago, statement retracted

[@matthewlevett968]

Extremely worn out,a tragic death

[@theshittybeatles5768]

I was lucky enough to meet him in New York in the late 70s. I was busking and had this act where I would throw a knife at a dart board and hit the bullseye and then ask one of the crowd to hold a balloon and I would burst it. He brought the knife off me for a 100 bucks and said he was going to practice in his hotal room to impress his girlfriend.

[@anthonyharper7472]

Yes, I'll take "things that never happened for 100 plz.."

[@riverduck3]

He never stood a chance in life with the sort of mother he grew up with. She gifted him with the drugs that killed him.

[@aimfuldrifter]

Don't make a victim out of him.

[@heyannamayFILMS]

Everyone seriously needs to read the book and I don't want to live this life. It explained so much and I honestly believe that nancy asked Sid to kill her to prove his love to her

[@hannah9407]

when he said under the ground i just started crying omg

[@Overlorddz]

He wasnt just depressed he was mourning and guilt ridden over his girlfriends murder. He did not remember what happened and if he was her killer

[@gazriley624]

why didn't he just stand up throw the interviewer out go get a shower & make himself some dinner and have an early night then sort his life out the next day?

[@dilligaf700]

RIP sid

[@JustMe-vt6ie]

So poignant he really never had a clue or a chance. I was younger then, lol. I thought of him as a man. But he was just a lost boy. This was painful to watch. How could that reporter ask, "are you having fun"? Cruel.

[@sandgrownun66]

"How could that reporter ask, "are you having fun"? Cruel." He didn't. You obviously didn't listen to the conversation.

[@superdayday3462]

He gets where a heavy drinker or drug user get tired of it all but do not know how to stop and reach out for more but it is never satisfying.

[@thetruthk5138]

As it says in the Big Book AA " He will wish for the end the jumping of point". All Alcoholics and Drug addict's know this is true. When we reach this point the are only two choices left choose life

[@billlombard9911]

His mom was an addict and he was totally messed up ever since he was a little kid

[@eugenemclemmont4045]

This is as honest as it gets, full of methadone and barbs, dont believe hes had any smack in this interview. his eyes say it all when asked about if hes having any fun now and the " are you really asking me this now" look and slight smirk. Poor bloke when it all falls down on top of you. It takes a strong person to climb back up again. Sid never managed it. RIP.

[@themannen]

I remember when he died I was 16 years old. This was in the 70's. I did not understand everything when it happened but now as a 60 year old I see the whole picture he is a kid who did not understand anything.

[@rossturrell1219]

Proper shit to see sid like that he obviously on the b and charges and lost his girlfriend how the fuk can anyone not feel for him after this video..? Anyone disagree pls let me know thanks

[@Kat.Evangeline]

Sid's mom gave him heroin qhen he turned 16 according to John Lydon. She was a registered Heroin Addict he said. 😢

[@maxelldenomie6131]

I do think and believe his mama gave him that hotshot...

[@meralEdwtDawlatly]

It's been confirmed a long time ago .... She even never gave him a grave....SOMEONE NEEDS TO SMASH HER FUCKING GRAVE

[@kawasakiwhiptwo5821]

I'm 54 years old and this is the first time I've ever heard Sid Vicious's voice just talking and not screaming on stage. Weird. P.S. @precisely 0:51 he gives the most "are you fucking kidding me right now?" look I've ever seen anyone give another person without actually saying it.

[@stationsixtyseven67]

See what John Lydon says about the whole Pistols 'escapade' WRT Sid ...it's really touching. It's the other side of the myth. These boundary-pushers are as human as you or I.

[@Jonesmarc1]

Im tired of people calling sid untalented he may have not been able to play bass that well but he was a pretty good singer and some people don't know he studied art in college and he was a talented painter

[@jamesnewall6432]

He was an Entertainer which is half the battle, some of the most talented people never make it because they dont have that star appeal he certainly had that. Shame its like this but thats how it is, Britains got talent or that other oneis a fine example

[@sandrafrcek5395]

All you have to do is look at those eyes. .. I know that look. XXX

[@ilovesammy3657]

What do you mean? Like do you mean you can see his sadness?

[@sandrafrcek5395]

@@ilovesammy3657 Yes. . Once seen it can't be unseen so to speak. You get caught up in chaos and it's like you never stood a chance. XX