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Nancy Laura Spungen (/ ˈ s p ʌ ŋ ɡ ən /; February 27, 1958 – October 12, 1978) was the American girlfriend of English musician Sid Vicious and a figure of the 1970s punk rock scene. Born and raised in Philadelphia , Spungen was an emotionally disturbed child who was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 15.
According to Polk, Beverley asked Deborah Spungen if she could scatter Vicious' ashes over Nancy's grave and Spungen said no. Regardless, Polk said that Jerry Only drove Beverley, her sister, and two of Vicious' friends, to Nancy's gravesite, where Beverley scattered Sid's ashes.
“The press portrayed Sid and Nancy as Romeo and Juliet in black leather, roaring into hell,” said Spungen’s mother. The pair crashed through Hades’ gates on the night of 11 October 1978.
The death of Nancy Spungen at the hotel in 1978, [171] and the death of her boyfriend—Sid Vicious, who had been charged with her murder—the next year, brought further negative attention to the hotel. [83] [172] Nonetheless, the Chelsea's reputation as an artists' and authors' haven remained intact. [14]
Sid Vicious (stage name for John Simon Ritchie), British musician for the punk rock group Sex Pistols, died of a drug overdose 13 hours after being released on bail while awaiting trial on the October 12 stabbing death of Nancy Spungen.
1 February – Grave-diggers call off a strike in Liverpool which has delayed dozens of burials.; 2 February – Sid Vicious, the former Sex Pistols guitarist, is found dead in New York after apparently suffocating on his own vomit as a result of a heroin overdose. 21-year-old London-born Vicious was on bail for the second degree murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, who was found stabbed to ...
Local legends say elephants from travelling ‘wild beast’ shows like Bostock and Wombwell’s Menagerie, were buried across the country
Who Killed Nancy? is a British documentary film directed by Alan G. Parker. The film was produced by Ben Timlett and Christine Alderson. It had its US theatrical opening at the Cinema Village in New York City on 30 July 2010. [1] The film examines the possibility that it was not Sid Vicious who was responsible for the death of Nancy Spungen. [2]