Sid Vicious: A Broken Spirit

by Craig Cabell

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 if 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 of heroin addiction.The façade 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 façade.Cabell is a former music journalist and historian who contributes as occasional co-host on Channel Radio's The Warp Factor.

321 pages, Paperback

Published August 2, 2020