Sid Vicious - Hyde Park Interview (August 17th 1978)
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- Interviewed by Julian Temple For the Sex Pistols documentary-film “The Great Rock ‘n‘ Roll Swindle”
Sid Vicious -being Interview in August 17th 1977
Sid Vicious, sat in a deck chair in Hyde Park wearing a swastika T-shirt
Sid Vicious - Hyde Park Interview (August 17th 1977)
“Sid Vicious lived in my flat for a couple of months and I tried to teach him bass, but he was hopeless.” Lemmy :)
I PERSONALLY LOVE JOHNNY❤❤& SID❤❤❤
You’re not gonna learn how to be a bass player from Lemmy lol
@@Jipwelland why do you think that Lemmy was an Amazing Bass player you dont think he played the same style in Hawkwind as he did in Motorhead do you doh
@@woody5831you are so right. Lemmy used less distortion when he played in Hawkwind…
Cool.. I worked with Mick Maynard, he was one of the singers who auditioned for the sex pistols. they all got a singing part on the great rock n roll swindle track and were in the video.. I bleached my hair because of him .. haha
He gets touchy over things like that
Love it
Bless his heart. They taught him how to play the bass, like four times, but he was so smacked out, he actually forgot. RIP, Sid.
That's insane
He instinctively knew that much worse was over the horizon.
Plus he was a smack head.
Now those dealers own half of London.
Terrible that. His life was just a manipulation by others who made money out of him. And never cared for him.
Yup, I’m pretty sure his mother got him hooked on heroin as a kid. That definitely had to effect the rest of his life. If only someone could’ve helped but he was already way too hooked. The world can be damn cruel to some people.
@TedMan83 Damm cruel to us all. As we are to each other. No one gets it easy. Life is hard for everyone. Sids life was an uphill struggle. And when he became famous the people who should have been looking out for him. They were just manipulating him. And doing him harm. He couldn't see it. And paid the ultimate price. When they couldn't make any more money out of him, they just discredited him and his abilities. Especially that Malcolm Mclaren, what a piece of shit he was.
Thanks for posting this. Serious insight into Sid and the time and the place, living in the moment.
Wow, never heard Sid so honest in a proper interview before, Great upload
This is what I call great self-awareness! Miss you Sid! RIP
I call it narcissistic mental illness.
Do you really 'miss' him?
He was a pathetic little junkie with zero talent.
He was a shit person and murderer but somehow YOU miss him. Weird and Creepy
"We weren't the nice boys they thought we were, we aren't nice boys we were f**king nasty little b**tards... And we still are" - Vicious, Sid 1977
Best line ever
1978
@@kennygray2871 it’s 1977 as Elvis had just died based on that news report
We got Boy Scouts here nastier than these wankers. 🇺🇲🤠😎🎸
Freddie Mercury: hold my beer!!!😂
if only i could have seen that. Love Queen and the pistols
@@knownpleasures 1978 as Sid got the swastika shirt from items thown on the stage at the Winterland gig in SF, but the news report was from 1977.. I'm not really sure why it was played in this clip.
This is amazing has a extra part of interview,when sid talks about screen on the green respect kind regards.
Could there be a more English interview ever? 😂 got to love the misunderstood Sid who seems fairly articulate here.
Articulate must have been the odd occasion when he wasn't smashed out of his head on heroin.
This is rare I've not heard bits of this before I know there is a full version 45 mins hope julian temple release this great interview thanks for some more rare footage
@@markgreet3543 Where is the rest?
@@mjh5437 it's never been released properly it's 45 mins interview it's up to julian temple to release I'm busy now so bye bye
He's articulate here because, regardless of the 'Myth', he *was* a *very imtelligent* guy
"I don't want to be a junkie at all"
Ironic that his own psycho of a mother deliberately killed him with a heroin overdose.
Let’s face it…. After all what happened with Nancy, Sid wanted to be six feet under.
Jup believe he was rapes in prison and didn’t want to go back
He also took like four quaaludes along with the heroin that night
My Sid love you lots and miss you more. R.I.P baby.❤
@Donnell Okafor you’ve got plenty to say for yourself. You’re a bit of a prick, okafor, aren’t you?
@Donnell Okafor Why are you nasty to her ?
And you literally weren't even around for Punk ?
😬 😂
Love you Sid ❤ RIP..
This interview had to be filmed after the U.S tour. He was talking about hitting someone with his bass.
"I am good looking and have a good figure".......hilarious.
I know. Bless him. 😊
That served him well in jail in America...
What's wrong with his skin ?
@@MadininaCarribeanLooks like dried blood from a popped pimple
@@MadininaCarribean Acne. It is quite common with teenagers.
Saw a clip on def 2 interview with John and this clip was shown when he talks about being called vicious
This is simply a young lad who is playing at being a young lad. He is brutally honest and loved punk and being one, he is the perfect iconoclast - suffering no fools either, with all the bullshit pretence of pop stars or whatever musicians think they are... shame those fuckers couldn't see through their own crap to maybe help him out of the drugs hole he was in, but hey that's youth things go wrong...
He was a very Bad Vegetable and Bad for The Environment! A POS With the Brain of a Cabbage!
Sid left the people who tried to help out of drugs.
He stayed with his mother because she helped him getting the drugs he wanted.
True story.
Poor boy. No dad, junkie mum, thrust into the maelstrom by that money grabbing maclaren. I agreed with Lydon, who said Syd should never have been allowed within 30 feet of fame. RIP good boy. Rest in peace u never got in life.
He was just a mannequin in the window....he did not play one note on the album.
@@Jonhobbs64 That doesn't negate anything he said.
@@greghauser742 he was a strung out junkey that was in the right place at the right time. Nothing more. He was playing a roll
best description of withdrawal symptoms ive heard
I was born at this very moment on the same day.
What u not are special cause this
@@marianabarachodossantos5535 if you realised the significance of the date you would realise why i said what you silly little Girl!!!,Yeah Iam nasty if don't like it don't reply or do come from the easily offended Generation the date is the 17 August 1977 not 1978.
@@marianabarachodossantos5535 ok
I was 5 months old.
i turned 25 on this day in 1978
Cheers Sid
1:40 "Glen was a c**t as always" 😂
Ironically, Glen was a bloody good musician. The Pistols were a very capable band before McLaren's media hype took over and before Sid came in. He was a very damaged individual, just a misguided child really. Looked. cool as f**k though.
Glenn says he helped Sid learn the bass and that in reality they were good friends. I prefer the Pistols before Vicious came onto the scene as the introduction of Sid was the beginning of the end for the Sex Pistols!
Punk was not mainly about music . For music check the hippie bands.
@@cardcounter21 & Glen played & largely organised the 'Sid Sods off gig' in Camden to get him some money for his move to the US.
@@valentineotto1099 off course it was about music ...... clothes & a decent haircut .half the original punk members had been 'hippies' ....Nearly 60years ago people were criticising the Stones ,the Who ,Kinks etc as not being 'proper musicians'...
Then came the vicious white kids 😂
Estuviste muy poco tiempo en esta vida, hoy tu recuerdo trasciende las épocas. Ícono!!
Descansa en paz Sid. 🇨🇱
There are live Pistol gigs in Sweden here on CZcams and Sid is not bad on Bass, at least holding it down with the rest. Problems in the rehearsal studio also.
he played just right for the Sex pistols music
I love that dude had excellent self awareness and he knew who he was. That's a good quality to have
Omg one guy styled like our parents when we grew up
And you styled like our generation and how we grew up
Do yall have no own things ?
Golden brown texture like Sun with my mind She Runs 🤯👌
Saw the Stranglers at the Toby Jug in Tolworth. First punk gig. Fucking awesome.🤓
Simon Ferocious
Lol, Freddy Mercury
@@edwardcarmody3336 Lol Freddie!
Today is the anniversary of Sid's death..RIP Sid Vicious - John Simon Ritchie (10 May 1957 - 2 February 1979)
Great
He's a hopeless case death awaited him sooner or later.. sad really.
Death awaits us all
Really knew what he was on about. Not the mindless drug head he's sometimes portrayed to be. What was he, 19 at the time of this interview? Very insightful and articulate, taking no prisoners or bullshit.
And 2 months later he killed Nancy
Someone goofed up. This was 1977 not 1978. The summer when Sid was in hospital with yellow jaundice while Steve and Paul were in the studio making NMTB. Sid looks a little rough. He sounds very intelligent and had a good sense of humor. I had never seen the footage of him in his tits T shirt walking down Kings Road (1975?) or talking about the first Screen On The Green gig. Thanks for posting.
Sex Pistols gave John Lydon an outlet for his chaotic creative energy to shape into the unique brilliance of PiL. Sid was going to die young, regardless, and without the Sex Pistols, he would have been another dead nobody. He became a punk legend and assisted Lydon's lift-off into his own lasting and well deserved legacy.
and you are still alive come to london and live with me punks not dead
@Bloom Tik Bloom eat your minerals you criminals
Yeah...sucks they became "punk legends" when there were so many others at the time who were much, much better in every way.
@@jesusgavemeaids not true- punk is not only music it is philosophy and McLaren and pistols delivers on that Others had only music
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He only gave a few symptoms of heroin withdrawal. It's actually much worse than that much worse.
Withdrawing from booze is far worse,you can have a seizure and die,
Classic
This is definitely 1978 after The Pistols broke up. Sid got his swastika shirt at the last show on the USA tour in January '78
I wonder where you’d even get such a shirt lmao
@@xdef1ne they did sell them in Seditionaries....but rather hard to find
@@andchat6241 not that red shirt, they sold destroy shirts but that specific swaztika shirt wasn’t sold by seditionaries
@@xdef1ne oh right , I thought they sold them after Sid made em 'fashionable ' ( not that I can remember them in Seditionaries or BOY) . I'm sure Steve Jones wore 1 when him & Paul encoored with Sham 69 in Glasgow .Animal from Anti-Nowhere league had 1 & previous 'Sidalike ' Youth' Glover of Killing Joke as well- ive got a cutting from K Jokes early days where he's standing in front of a tower block with Jimmy Lydon wearing one.
@@xdef1ne They did sell them in SEX shop before it was Seditionaries. A bunch of Bromley Contingent punks wore Swastikas back then to shock people. Look at the Bill Grundy interview where Steve Severin is wearing Swastika armbands. Siousxie Sioux also wore the armband and Swastika shirts. This was long before Sid even joined. Sid never really dressed like this pre-Pistols.
I have never heard his voice before…interesting!
Sounds like Johnny
Proof the music industry is just about image.
Sid was so cute before heroin i hate heroin it is the destroyer of lives
The Pistols were amazing. I remember my older sister had to hide the records from our parents 😂
I wonder what he would have been like today
Wow, he was one brutually honest dude!!!! #continue2ripsid
Much good it did him.
I was 10 years old
"Tell em Sid you tell em"
He's spot on with the description on heroin withdrawal, been through it myself I'm 5 years clean now.
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Keep on keeping on xx
@@karenfrazer6357 👍
Where did the 'August '77 ' date come from ? - as everything indicates it's the following year ,he's talking in the past tense regarding the Pistols not playing live (summer 77 they did the S.P.O.Ts tour) & about 'taking over from Rotten' in regard to the January '78 US gigs. Also the Swastika tshirt seemed to be worn throughout his time in UK (& Paris scene in 'the Swindle) in '78... before going to New York.
I left a part about that in the description.
@@Anti_Bonez ok - but why leave the '77 dates on the description.thanks
Then why the interviewer is talking about Elvis death
@@Anti_BonezBLACK METAL TEENS HEARING PINK FLOYD
The title is wrong. It's 1977.
i turned 25 on this day in 1978
I turned 25 on this day in 2022 if I start at the beginning of my second trimester in utero. Otherwise its Dec. 31st last year.
44 years ago
The shirt he's wearing recently sold to a collector for over 40 grand.
Sid was punk. All the good and bad it embodied.
His description of heroin withdrawal is spot on. I didn’t start until I was about 26/27, but, but next I knew it was 5 years later, and I just couldn’t believe it! Along with family, and legalized TCH a certain amount of wisdom I’m waking a better path .
Sid had more than enough talent to be a performer, his bass playing was actually serviceable until he started to play like shit on purpose as the demon of his legend was beginning to fool him into believing the cartoon version of the situation. However he can be heard in the “Live in Sweden 1977” bootlegs, AND, he was 80% spot on with the chord structure at the Winterland in S.F. During the last gig Sid would ever
But the cat was an excellent front man, he could sing, and hell yeah, he had the look, the hair, the charisma, (which when put next to Rotten, it was the first of the nails to start the end.) and it’s not because Rotten was better or Vicious was better, but they had a different approach, and even on bass, the stage was not big enough for Sid and John.
Had he managed to stay clear of the dope, and started his own band from scratch, some how, he could have been as big as Billy Idol. Hands down.
I apologize, the muse was upon me…..
I have the boot of winter land and yeah,nothing wrong with his playing
@@seanfoster6320 Not at all. In fact, he was developing the skills on how to break songs down into “intro/verse/bridge/verse/bridge/chorus/solo” etc, and I think the 1980’s would have been a lot cooler with that competition between a Billy Idol led outfit, and a Sid Vicious led outfit, the next youth movements’ version of the Beatles & The Stones.
Perhaps I think too much about this, but just using a little imagination, Idol, and Sid and the Vicious White Kids with Matlock on bass, and Brian James on Guitar, then, a line for drum tryouts would have been from Pimlico to Kings Cross/St. Pancras!
Cheers Sean.
Well Billy was a junkie once as well. He had talent though, and could sing. Still can!
@@jgreen8220 Idol you mean? Lol he got hit with tranq darts or rubber bullets (i cant remember which now ) by the Thai police after a bender that lasted a few days in a hotel the cops decided to end it 🤣 funny as
@@ECNIV2000 Sean was agreeing with you....."nothing wrong with his playing"
He gets touchy over things like that. 😂
i still have dreams seeing sid v. and gg allin playn together .
God bless you 🎧💚
Elvis died August 16th, 1977, not 1978
Yeah I remember special reports on all the channels when Elvis died. Nothing like that since.
Yeah, they got the date of the interview wrong
Negativity in excellence. Detsroyer of all he touched
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He was quite an astute bloke
There will never be another.......
Actually quite the opposite, always another sid because of how useless he was
@Bloom Tik Bloom useless but definitely not a murderer lol
”Trying to takeover his position”: hahahaha love the British accent and way w words
Young lost soul...
Side vicious was my hero growing up. To me he's a legend.
Hung a cat for a laugh,what a hero🤷♂️twisted f#ck got what he deserved.
your hero? he has nothing
@@GG-ml3vr All the best people hang cats,its jolly good fun.
🕊️💜🕊️🌹🕊️💜🕊️
As a bass player he was a good nose picker.
Nose picker maybe but no one will remember your name
@@skeletalwreck8780 , what? John Simon Ritchie? Get TF outta here with that shit.
1977 you got the title wrong. otherwise it would have been when i was 9 yo i mean 9 days old.
Sharing
Good looking and good figure. Girls like me. 😂😂 he’s a classic.
I bet Nancy gave him those scratches on his face.
Impetigo from scratchingvand generally unhygienic more like
@@matthewjdouglas6471 As I imagine, both of them Syd and Nan were stincky af...because who cares about washing up when you always droped out
@KDI Family that's the thing with being on smack, last thing on your mind is taking a shower.
@@matthewjdouglas6471 so basically, when they lived in the Chelsea hotel for a month i bet that place stunk as hell 😵
That Scar was from Paul Weller glassing him in the Speakeasy club.
Syd Viscious gives a great performance as Gary Oldman here
I guess he looked the part..but,couldn't play bass to save his life! Bloody awful! Rest in peace, Sid.
Should never have been in the Sex Pistols
in the 90s when i was a teenager i thought he looked older , and now in my 40s i realized he looked like a kid,lol
Just so sad what happened to him.She helped to end his life
The Pistols never should have fired Glen Matlock ,with Sid they became cartoon.
Exactly
I saw Pistols b4 Sid on So It Goes w/ Tony Wilson?
They were F'ING FANTASTIC!
I like the cartoon.
This was in my birthday 😮
In my mid-teens Sid Became my roll model. I was attracted to the image of Sid because he obviously had serous psychiatric problems and so did I. He used to practice self-mutilation and so have I. He once hit a member of the audience with hiss bass guitar. In my late teens I was homeless in London and I sometimes punched people for “looking at me in a funny way” and I spent some time in prison for this. Syd was a very disturbing roll model. I survived and he did not, I am diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
In the 70s ?
@@aotctd Yes, late 70's
Year is wrong
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COULDNT BURY SID DUSTBIN MEN WERE ON STRIKE
Helped me stop my self destruction RIP
The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long. And you've always burned your candle both ways, Roy(Blade Runner).......By Sid R.I.P
Bass player 🥹
Possible en français
Sid only played on Holidays in the sun and Bodies from never mind the Bollocks here’s the SEX PISTOLS!!!!!!!!
Very interesting and unique.
That ain't me baby classic line
Auston Powers like even.
Why is there an Hyde Park
But no Jekyll Park?
What
@@JapatiYTP "go ask Robert Louis Stevenson" was the correct answer my dear Chevorlet...
Lol
Hyde Park during the daylight hours, Jekyll Park when the sun goes down. Not quite Central Park, but there's potential... 🙃
Why does he remind me of Richard from undateables?
Who's the big fella in the deck chair
Just a big fella in a deck chair.
Looks like Tony Blackburn ..
This was almost exactly 2 months before Nancy died. He must’ve gone to ny soon after this interview
A year and 2 months
Life is rough
Awwwww hearing him saying he wants to break free of dope!!! And knowing what happened!!
I hate Junk!!! Dope taken so many from me!💔💔💔
Wonder how impressed Sid would be with Johnny Rotten these days.
Johnny grew up though. I bet if this kid was still around he’d still be an idiot.
depends on if he wouldve stayed an addict then probably bash him otherwise if he sobered up finally was able to kick the addictions he may agree with a lot of it or put in his own perpectives on things from his side of things who knows maybe he wouldve kicked it and changed for the better found a nice woman with a good heart pure intentions and had a family somewhere but unfortunately those werent the cards he was dealt
F! THE SYSTEM BUY COUNTRY LIFE BUTTER!!!
Killed by his mom. So sad
Funny hearing Sid's reaction to seeing the Pistols "they were so good, how can you equal that (why even be in a band)"...the very opposite to the spirit of punk, where you'd see a band and think ":fck me, I could do that...(and form a band)"
Not necessarily.
August 1978, not 1977.
August 17th 1977 not 1978
Real and honest af. Take it or leave it boy.
He started saying ‘like’ as an empty filler long before it became currently mainstream
"like" is one those main words that need to like die in its rightful grave, like right now.
it was completely normal
Wonder he didn’t say “not gonna lie” as well. Another annoying saying!!
@@jgreen8220 Yeah! And also that stupid, "I don't care what anyone says, but..."
Interesting observation.
Sid Vicious Was My Mentor And Did A Great Job Mentoring Me Taught Me Everything About Punk Rock Music And The Women Sid Vicious Was The Best Mentor I've Ever Got Sid Vicious Is The World's Best Mentor
Mentor ? For what?!