FILM 1161: WHO KILLED NANCY?
On October 12th 1978 New York
Police discovered the lifeless body of a 20 year-old woman, slumped under the
bathroom sink in a hotel room. She was dressed in her underwear and had bled to
death from a stab wound. The woman was Nancy Spungen, an ex-prostitute,
sometimes stripper, heroin addict, and girlfriend of Sex Pistols' bassist Sid
Vicious. In a trial by tabloid newspapers Vicious was pronounced guilty before
noon the following day. But the case never had the chance to be brought to
trial, and a number of New York cops weren't convinced. Less than six months
later in a flat in New York's Greenwich Village, Sid, himself aged only 21,
died of a heroin overdose. For the next 28 years the assumption was that Sid
did it - case closed. Over time, the death of Sid and Nancy has passed into
rock legend and has only added to the controversial and notorious image of the
Sex Pistols and punk music. At the request of Sid's mother, who committed
suicide in 1996, rock author and punk expert Alan Parker has devoted himself to
discovering what really happened in room 100. Parker has re-interviewed 182
people, re-examined NYPD evidence, and gone back to his original interviews
with Sid's mother.
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