Nancy Spungen

Nancy Laura Spungen (born February 27, 1958 in Philadelphia / Pennsylvania , † October 12, 1978 in New York City ) was the partner of punk musician Sid Vicious , the bassist of the Sex Pistols .

Life

Spungen was born to Deborah and Frank Spungen. She grew up in Huntingdon Valley, a suburb of Philadelphia. In 1977 she left her parents' home and followed bands like the Ramones , Aerosmith and the New York Dolls as a groupie . She worked as a stripper and prostitute in New York City before moving to London in 1977. According to her mother, Spungen suffered from schizophrenia . Spungen was addicted to heroin and made several suicide attempts. She embodied the self-destructive lifestyle of the punk movement and became one of their idols along with Sid Vicious.

At the end of their 19-month relationship, Spungen was found stabbed to death in the bathroom of Room 100 at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City in October 1978 . Vicious was then arrested on suspicion of murder, but released on $ 50,000 bail provided by Virgin Records . Shortly before the trial, Vicious died of a heroin overdose on February 2, 1979. There was speculation that he could not get over the death of his girlfriend and died by suicide.

Her brief, conflictive relationship with Sid Vicious was filmed in 1986 under the title Sid and Nancy . The German actor Ben Becker wrote and directed a play about Sid & Nancy in 1995 with his sister Meret Becker .

Nancy Spungen is buried in King David Cemetery in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, USA .

Her mother, Deborah, wrote a book about her daughter's life story.

literature

• Deborah Spungen: Puncture Points - an insane addiction for love. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-426-01512-9 . (Translation of And I Don't Want to Live This Life, published by Random House 1983)

Web links

• Sid & Nancy in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Internet Archive: And I don't want to live this life . New York: Villard Books, 1983 ( archive.org [accessed March 28, 2020]).