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Sid Vicious To Get Blue Plaque?

12:16 PM GMT 05/02/2008

Sid Vicious To Get Blue Plaque?

THE SEX PISTOLS appear on the brink of earning their own “blue plaque”, commemorating the late Sid Vicious’s former residency in Hampstead. The flat at 39 New Court, Lutton Terrace, was squatted by Vicious and Johnny Rotten in 1975 after the former was turfed out by his mother, Ann Beverley. “I said, it’s either you or me,” she told subsequent punkographers, “and it’s not going to be me, so you can just f***off.” Thanks, mum!

The Pistols already boast an unofficial plaque, unveiled by Glen Matlock at Central St. Martins art college in 2005, but this would be the first endorsed by English Heritage. If it goes ahead, Vicious would be one of a small elite of musicians so honoured in London, joining, Mozart, Hendrix and Handel (two doors down from Hendrix in Brook St., Westminster) among others. The Pistols’ transformation from society bogeymen to comfy residents in the pantheon of British cultural history appears nearly complete.

Here’s what Sid’s place looks like now...

Sid Vicious’s squat at New Court, Lutton Terrace, Hampstead

Check out a bunch of London’s rock landmarks here…

Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 12:16 PM GMT 05/02/2008

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  • Sid Vicious? Commemorated? only thing he should be commemorated for is for being a junked up waste of talentless space!

    Posted by 30 years on at 6:09 PM GMT 07/02/2008 Report Abuse

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  • RE: 30 years on
    Could'nt agree more with previous post - what exactly did this moron ever do to merit such a plaque? What next, Lydon to get one for making a career out of impersonating old man Steptoe?

    Posted by ALAN REID at 2:59 PM GMT 08/02/2008 Report Abuse

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  • RE: ALAN REID

    i love the Steptoe reference - never thoiught of that b4! However, at least Lydon wrote some worthwhile songs. Vicious was just a Pistols wannabe. & a twat!

    Posted by Anonymous at 7:06 PM GMT 08/02/2008 Report Abuse

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  • RE: Marc Bolan deserves a plaque he is one "London boy" who was massive wrote great songs and is still loved, 30yrs after his death.

    Posted by Anonymous at 11:29 AM GMT 11/02/2008 Report Abuse

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  • RE: Marc Bolan deserves a plaque he is one "London boy" who was massive wrote great songs and is still loved, 30yrs after his death.

    Posted by roy ferguson at 11:29 AM GMT 11/02/2008 Report Abuse

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  • John Lydon is a god damn legend, simple as that!

    Posted by Wes at 10:55 AM GMT 18/09/2010 Report Abuse

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