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| Sid Vicious No One Is Innocent by Alan Parker £18.99 Hardback 288 pages. Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? Well certainly not with Alan Parker's new book on the Punk Icon that was Sid Vicious. It's Parker's third book on the subject matter of Sid and by far his best, with a bit of page pinching from the previous two books and any obtainable source that Alan could muster he set about putting his plan into obvious affect, that a plan with in three books would bring us closer to the myth that was Sid Vicious. Picking over the bones with mother Vicious Alan would gain an insight into Anne's one and only son, Simon, but would this input put him off the truth to what really happened at the Chelsea Hotel? Or what really happened the night of Sid's death? All can never be clear. As the book unfolds there are nuggets of gold but still the truth will be always hidden deep. The story paints a far bitter and twisted look at Sid from a Johnny Rotten/John Lydon point of view who shed tears at the end of the 'Filth and Fury' movie. Did he care for Sid or just hated the fact that the new Zombie version junk monkey wasn't the same busking buddy of Art school days. Throughout this book Malcolm Mclaren seems to put the blame more towards Anne and not John for the downfall of Sid. And he himself is painted more as being a likeable character. It's a who's who of the Sex Pistols claim to fame, and the stories they so (SELL) tell. What is true is this book offers more than most and from lots of individuals what are never really the obvious people connected with the Pistols/Sid story to date. We hear from the likes of Eileen Polk, friend to Michelle Robinson or Michelle Robison which is how her name was spelt. Eileen Polk's photo of Sid and Michelle which features in the middle of the book is taken backstage of a Blondie gig. And shows Sid still in 'Pretty Vacant' mood. Whether the memory of Nancy is lingering like a smell from a rotting corpse or Sid knew for real that his quotation of being dead before the age of 21 would be the ghost that haunts him as Sid had only days left upon the Clock is anyones guess? Great book to pick up and very hard to put down, but with me I still want things answered. Was Sid a rent boy? Did he get raped in Rikers Island? Is there any live footage of the Vicious White Kids? And is the sex video of Sid and Nancy really out there or was this just another story of the most talked about Punk couple ever to hit this planet? One thing is left in mind Sid Vicious would now be 50 and like Johnny said about watching old dinosaurs on stage, would the ageing Vicious be alive today still be Punking it out with the rest of them? One can never tell, but one thing Sid was he was something else, wether up on stage with the Sex Pistols/Vicious White Kids or just giving an interview to a dumb unexpectant journalist with some of Sid's psycho babble, weather he understood himself or not, he was so street smart (or was he?). But like many have said about Sid, there was only green lights and no off button and as soon as that junkie fix hit his vein there was no going back. Sid booked his ticket to Rock 'n' Roll Babylon. (R.I.P Sid Vicious) Friday 1O May 1957 - Friday 2 February 1979......... Sid Nuneaton June 2007 ISBN-10: 0752875469 ISBN-13: 9780752875460 Publication: May 2007 |
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