Sid Vicious Sid Vicious Sid Vicious (born Simon John Ritchie, 10 May 1957 – 2 February 1979) was an English bassist and vocalist. He achieved fame as a member of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols, replacing Glen Matlock, who had fallen out of favour with the rest of the group. Due to intravenous drug use, Vicious was hospitalised with hepatitis during the recording of the Sex Pistols' only studio album, "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols"; his bass is only partially featured on one song. Vicious later appeared as a lead vocalist, performing three cover songs, on the
Sid Vicious where Spungen was buried, where Beverley scattered Vicious' ashes over Spungen's grave. Howie Pyro, who also went along with the group to scatter Vicious' ashes, said in a 2009 documentary that he felt Spungen killed herself and Vicious was innocent. "To me, she just did it herself because that's what people like that do, like teenagers who cut themselves." Pyro said that he thought Spungen was desperate for attention and stabbed herself, thinking Sid would come to her rescue, but that he was too intoxicated to do so. Shortly after Sid Vicious' death, his mother Anne Beverley claimed that Vicious