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Sid Vicious: A Rocky Lifestyle Played Out to Its Extreme End

Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 February 1979

EPITAPH FOR a punk: Even before his somehow not too surprising drug overdose death at age 21, Sid Vicious already scrawled his name indelibly in the annals of rock.

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