John Mendelsohn catches up with the late Sid Vicious
John Mendelsohn, Rock's Backpages, March 2003
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS after the fact, it appears less and less likely that Elvis's death was a hoax. Not so that of punk rock icon Sid Vicious, who turns out to be alive and well and, against all adds, living a life of middle class contentment in the Luton suburb of Caddington.
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