Thirty years after the death of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious, a new documentary called Who Killed Nancy? argues Vicious was not responsible for death of girlfriend/groupie/heroin addict Nancy Spungen.
Former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren says the idea was bollocks in the first place, according to a new article he penned, called Sid Didn't Kill Nancy:
So many people have cursed me, accused me, of murdering Sid, including John Lydon. That’s not true. Sid’s mother did. Some felt that because I was the manager, the “responsible adult,” I could have prevented Sid’s death. But try managing a junkie—especially if you’ve never been one yourself. I guess that’s show business and the media. The questions never stop, even now, 30 years since his death. “How Vicious was he?” “What went wrong?” Did he kill Nancy? To the last question, I can say, definitely not …
This article appears in Feb 4-10, 2009.