Squeal of Fortune! We Have A Winner!
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 1:48PM 
We have a winner from yesterday’s Squeal of Fortune! The first one in with the correct answer was Joey D! Congratulations on the win Joey and thanks to Professor Dungpie, mrs5000, Gene, tiefighter25 and Biff for chiming in as well.
The correct answer was: Sid Vicious and The Sex Pistols.
Johnny Rotten is the one who coined the name Sid Vicious. It happened after John Beverly’s hamster named Sid bit him and Johhny Rotten (then known as John Lydon) said, “That Sid is really vicious!”
He joined the Sex Pistols after original bass player, Glen Matlock was fired. One of the reasons Matlock was fired was that he was an Abba fan! I always found that hysterical!
Sid was asked to join, more for his look and attitude and the fact that he was Johnny Rotten’s friend, than for his bass playing abilities. It’s always been debated if he ever did learn. Steve Jones plays all the bass on Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols. Steve Jones has been quoted as saying, “"Sid was in a hospital with hepatitis so he couldn't really play, not that he could play anyway.”
Vicious joined the Sex Pistols in February of 1977 and was with them until the last concert in San Francisco on 14 January 1978.
Towards the end of the Sex Pistols run, Vicious hooked up with groupie/junkie Nancy Spungeon and it was all downhill from there. He stabbed her to death at the Chelsea Hotel in New York in a druggy, wuggy stupor, got thrown in jail, made bail and promptly overdosed on heroin and died. Oh well, at least he didn’t have to go back to jail.
So there you go. Congratulations on the win, Joey D and we’ll see you all next week on...SQUEAL OF FORTUNE!
Reader Comments (3)
You really need to be writing magazine articles and books about this stuff. Your knowledge of rock is vast and incredibly interesting. Thank you for enlightening me.
ironically, andy griffith can't STAND abba.
I find ironic that Courtney Love was in the film "Sid and Nancy".