Sid Vicious A Broken Life: A Broken Life

by Craig Cabell

The Deluxe full colour illustrated trade paperback of Sid Vicious - A Broken Life.Simon John Ritchie, the boy who would become notorious Punk Sid Vicious, was a damaged soul. Brought up by a registered drug addict of a mother and moved around constantly in his youth, Sid found it difficult to make any lasting friendships.Lonely, misguided, without any father figure, and emotionally disturbed, Sid would soon get attention by drinking heavily, brawling and, eventually, falling into the abyss that was heroin addiction.The facade that was Sid Vicious was embraced by the media and despaired at by his closest friends; but his cavalier ways would lead to self-destruction and the death of his girlfriend, who he was falsely accused of murdering.Craig Cabell tackles the blood-soaked story of murder and mayhem that is notoriously linked to the legend that is Sid Vicious, finding the lonely, Broken Life, of a shy young man, lost behind a violent facade.Cabell is a former music journalist and historian who contributes as occasional co-host to Channel Radio’s The Warp Factor.

321 pages, Hardcover

Published June 12, 2021