- Sid Vicious
Simon John Beverley, formerly Simon John Ritchie (May 10, 1957 - February 2, 1979), better known as Sid Vicious, was an English punk rock musician, the bass player of the Sex Pistols (replacing Glen Matlock). He was deeply involved in the birth of the British punk scene, along with close friend John Lydon (Johnny Rotten, Sex Pistols vocalist). He died of a drug overdose at the age of 21. - John Lydon
John Joseph Lydon (born January 31, 1956), also known as Johnny Rotten, is an English rock musician. He was the lead vocalist for Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd. With his sarcastic and provocative public persona, he participated in laying down a new template for rebellious youth and band frontmen. His musical innovations have also been influential. He is currently working on a new album called "The Rabbit Song". - Steve Jones
Stephen Phillip Jones (b. September 3, 1955) is an English rock and roll guitarist and singer, best known for his work as guitarist for the punk band Sex Pistols. - Malcolm McLaren
Malcolm McLaren (born Malcolm Robert Andrew Edwards, 22 January 1946, in London) is an English impresario, musician and self-publicist who is best known as being the manager of the punk rock band Sex Pistols. - Glen Matlock
Glen Matlock (born August 27, 1956 in West London, England) was the original bass guitarist of punk rock band the Sex Pistols. Drummer Paul Cook has said that Matlock came up with much of the music for the band's songs, while lead singer Johnny Rotten came up with the lyrics. Matlock is credited as a co-author on 10 of the 12 songs on "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols", the group's only LP. - Paul Cook
Paul Cook, born on July 20, 1956, is an English drummer and former member of the Sex Pistols. - Paul Cook
Paul Cook was a founding member and drummer of the progressive rock band IQ. As of 2005, Paul is retired from the music business, and has since been replaced in IQ by Andy Edwards. Although both share the same name, sources including Allmusic have wrongly listed IQ's Paul Cook as the same Paul Cook who was part of the famed Sex Pistols. - Julien Temple
Julien Temple (born November 26, 1953 in London) is an English film, documentary and music video director. - Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Westwood, DBE, RDI, (born Vivienne Isabel Swire in the village of Tintwistle in Glossop, Derbyshire, on 8 April, 1941) is an English fashion designer largely responsible for modern punk and new wave fashions. She is linked with the Sex Pistols via Malcolm McLaren and their SEX/Seditionaries boutique on King's Road, in London during the 1970s. - Nancy Spungen
Nancy Laura Spungen was the girlfriend of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious. Spungen has been the subject of controversy among music historians and fans of the Sex Pistols. - Gary Oldman
Leonard Gary Oldman is an Emmy Award-nominated, Saturn and BAFTA Award-winning English actor, writer and director. He initially came to prominance in the 1986 film "Sid & Nancy", in which he played the ill-fated rocker Sid Vicious. He later starred in films such as "Dracula", "Léon", "The Fifth Element" and "Hannibal". Generally regarded as one of the world's most versatile actors, … - Siouxsie Sioux
Susan Janet Ballion (born May 27, 1957 in Bromley, London), better known by her stage name, Siouxsie Sioux (is the lead singer of both the influential rock band Siouxsie & the Banshees and of its splinter group The Creatures. She is considered to be one of the most important British singers of her era, influencing The Cure, Morrissey, Tricky, Massive Attack, LCD Soundsystem, Shirley Manson of Garbage and Ana Matronic of Scissors Sisters among others. - Jamie Reid
Jamie Reid (born 1947), educated at John Ruskin Grammar School in Croydon, is a British artist and anarchist with connections to the Situationists. His work, featuring letters cut from newspaper headlines in the style of a ransom note came close to defining the image of punk rock, particularly in the UK. His best known works include the Sex Pistols album "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols" and the singles "Anarchy in the UK", "God Save The Queen", … - Bill Grundy
William Grundy (February 20, 1923 - February 9, 1993), commonly called Bill, was a British television presenter and was the host of Thames Television's "Today" show in the 1970s. - Christiana
Questioning who I am within a nutshell, reflects questioning what the universe is within a nutshell. I am too complex to create a generalization about myself. If you are curious about who I am, get to know me piece by piece and put the puzzle together. - Dylan
HEy you CrAzy kids. Im a musician living on the edge and is only trying to soround themselves with intresting people!!. I love music, nightlife, fun girls & movies that make me go to sleep. my favorit bands are "the kinison", "Blur", "the white stripes", got to give it up to "The strokes", "the Hives", "THE MARS VOLTA", "ice-cube", and "The Black Keys". I also enjoy playing shows with the bands i preform with like """WRAPT IN PLASTIC""", my curent project. Check us out.. - Jon Savage
Jon Savage (born 1953), real name Jonathon Sage, is a Cambridge-educated writer, broadcaster and music journalist, best known for his award winning history of the Sex Pistols and punk music, "England's Dreaming" (1991). He was a high-profile writer during the glory days of British punk and wrote articles on all the major punk acts. Savage wrote and published a fanzine called "London's Outrage" in 1976, and in 1977 began working as a journalist for Sounds. - Midge Ure
Midge Ure OBE (born James Ure on October 10 1953 in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland) is a rock and roll guitarist, singer, and songwriter from Scotland, who had particular success in the 1970s and 1980s. His stage name, Midge, is a phonemic reversal of his real name, Jim. - Jah Wobble
Jah Wobble (born John Wardle, in Stepney in 1958) is an English bass guitarist, singer, poet and composer. He became known to a wider audience as the original bass player in Public Image Ltd (PiL) in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but left the band after two years. Following his departure from PiL, he went on to a successful solo career, continuing to the present. - Chris Spedding
Chris Spedding (born Christopher John Spedding, 17 June 1944, in Staveley, Derbyshire) is an English rock and roll and jazz guitarist best known for his session work. He was raised by adoptive parents in Sheffield and Birmingham. During the late 1960s and early 1970s he became known as a guitar player on sessions for Alan Price, Jack Bruce, Pete Brown's Battered Ornaments and others. - Greil Marcus
Greil Marcus (born 1945) is an American author, music journalist and cultural critic. He is notable for producing scholarly and literary essays that place rock music in a much broader framework of culture and politics than is customary in pop music journalism. Marcus was born in San Francisco. He earned an undergraduate degree in American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, where he also did graduate work in political science. - Phil Lynott
Philip Parris Lynott was an Irish singer, instrumentalist and songwriter, who first came to prominence as the frontman of Thin Lizzy. - Billy Duffy
Billy Duffy (born William Henry Duffy, 12 May 1961, Hulme, Manchester) is best known as the guitarist of The Cult. - Nick Kent
Nick Kent (born December 24 1951) is a British rock critic and musician. Along with such writers as Paul Morley, Charles Shaar Murray and Danny Baker, Nick Kent was seen as one of the most important and influential music journalists of the 1970s. He wrote for the British music publication New Musical Express, moving to Melody Maker later in his career, and is the author of "The Dark Stuff", a collection of his journalism. - Keith Levene
Keith Levene (born Julian Keith Levene, July 18, 1957, London) is an English guitarist and songwriter, best known as a member of Public Image Limited. Levene was an early member of The Clash and The Flowers of Romance (most notable for also featuring a pre-Sex Pistols Sid Vicious). Although he never recorded with the Clash, he co-wrote "What's My Name", featured on their first album. - Dave Goodman
Dave Goodman (29 March 1951 - 10 February 2005) was a record producer and musician, perhaps best known as the live sound engineer for Sex Pistols, and the producer of three of their studio demo sessions. Some Sex Pistols fans prefer the raw "live" sound captured by Goodman to the official versions of the songs released as single A-sides and on the album "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols". - Chloe Webb
Chloe Webb (born 12 June 1956) is an American actress. Webb was born in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York. She grew up in Syracuse, New York. She played the female lead character in the 1986 feature film "Sid and Nancy", which revolved around the life of the Sex Pistols bassist, Sid Vicious, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. Webb also played the part of Mona Ramsey in the 1994 television adaptation of Armistead Maupin's novel "Tales of the City". - Tony Parsons
Tony Parsons (b.1955) is a British journalist and author. Parsons grew up on a council estate in Essex and began his career as a music journalist on the "NME", writing about punk music and "taking drugs with the "Sex Pistols". Later, he wrote for "The Daily Telegraph", before going on to write his current column for the "Daily Mirror". Parsons briefly hosted a series on Channel 4 called "Big Mouth". - Steven Severin
Steven Severin (born Steven John Bailey, on September 25, 1955, in London), sometimes written Steve Severin, is a musician, composer, bassist and founding member of Siouxsie & the Banshees. He participated in the very first appearance by the band, the semi legendary 100 Club gig where he and Siouxsie Sioux (billed as Suzi Sue), together with future Adam and the Ants guitarist Marco Pirroni and a pre Sid Vicious John Ritchie on drums, … - Steve Strange
Steve Strange (born Steven John Harrington on May 28, 1959) is a British singer and pop icon, best remembered as an influential party promoter and as the frontman and lead singer for Visage. Strange is often referred to as the "ultimate New Romantic," as his influence on the British club scene of the early 1980s and on synthesized music can still be seen today. - Jordan
Jordan (born Pamela Rooke on 23 June 1955) in Seaford, East Sussex, is a model and actress noted for her work with Vivienne Westwood and the SEX boutique in the Kings Road area of London in the mid-1970s. She was a fixture at many of the early Sex Pistols performances. Her style and fashion sense — a platinum-blonde bouffant hairdo with dark raccoon-like eye make-up — made her a highly visible icon of the London punk subculture. - Edward Tudor-Pole
Edward Tudor-Pole (born December 6, 1955) is an English musician, singer (as Eddie Tenpole), Presenter, and actor. He formed the band Tenpole Tudor in 1974, and eventually came to prominence after appearing in the film "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle" as a possible replacement for Johnny Rotten in the Sex Pistols. - Keith Flint
Keith Charles Flint (born 17 September 1969 in Chelmsford, Essex, England) is a member of the British hard dance/rave band The Prodigy. Flint was born and raised in Chelmsford, Essex. In the late 1980s he met the DJ Liam Howlett in a rave club and expressed his appreciation of Howlett's taste in music. After receiving a mixtape from Liam Howlett, the tapes B side had a few of Liams own tracks on it that he made in his bedroom studio 'Earthbound'. - Palmolive
Palmolive was the stage name for Spanish born drummer Paloma Romero. Palmolive was the drummer for influential punk groups The Slits and The Raincoats. Palmolive was born in 1955 in Southern Spain. She was educated in Catholic schools but by the age of 13 had grown bored and begun to challenge authority. She moved to Madrid, Spain and found that she was still unhappy with life in Spain. In 1972 Palmolive moved to London, England. - Steve New
Steve New (born 16 May, 1960 in London, England) was the guitarist & singer for a number of British punk rock and New Wave bands in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including the early Sex Pistols, the Rich Kids, and Public Image Ltd. He has also played with Iggy Pop, Kim Fowley, and Glen Matlock. - Markus Grosskopf
Markus Großkopf, born September 21 1965 in Hamburg, Germany, is the Bass player for the German power metal band Helloween. He started playing bass at the age of 15 when he became friends with a drummer and a guitar player, they were looking for a bass player so he bought his first bass and started jamming with covers of the Sex pistols, The Ramones and others. Some time later he decided to leave in hope of finding a heavier band, and with more live playing opportunities. - Jim Walker
Jim "Donut" Walker is a Canadian musician best known as the original drummer for John Lydon's post-Sex Pistols band. Public Image Ltd. Not to be confused with the voice actor, Jim Walker, who voices Fox McCloud in the game Star Fox: Assault. - Simon Laffy
Simon Laffy, born on October 11, 1958, is an English bassist, a member of Man-Raze and former member of Girl. - Wally Nightingale
Wally Nightingale, born Warwick Nightingale, was an English musician. He was the guitarist and founder of the band which would eventually become the Sex Pistols. He left in 1975 after Malcolm McLaren agreed to manage the band, but "... only if we got rid of Wally," (according to guitarist Steve Jones). Nightingale died in 1996, apparently from complications of substance abuse. - Viv Albertine
Viv Albertine (born Vivianne Albertine, 2 January 1955) was the guitarist for the influential, all-female English punk group, The Slits. Born in France to an English mother and a French father. The family returned to Great Britain when she was quite young. Albertine was amongst the first "inner circle" fans of the Sex Pistols, and was close friends of both Mick Jones and Joe Strummer of The Clash. Albertine joined The Slits as the band's guitarist, …
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