Sex Pistol Sid delivers his famous sneer with his American girlfriend Nancy Spungen, in New York, 1978

The Punk Life and Death of Sid Vicious

"Too fast to live. Too young to die."
Feb. 2 marks the 30th anniversary of the death of the notorious former Sex Pistol, punk rock's ultimate nihilistic guitarist.

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