| Jayne
County:
She was a groupie around the rock scene...She'd sleep with
anyone who was in a band. Nobody liked her in New York, and
they hated her in London because of the way she
latched onto Sid. She had a very childish quality; you felt
sorry for her, but you could tell she was trouble. a 'must
to avoid'.
Malcolm
McLaren:
When Nancy Spungen came into my shop it was as if Dr
Strangelove had sent us this dreaded disease specifically to
England, and specifically to my store....But I tried every
way possible to either get her run over, poisoned,
kidnapped, or shipped back to New York
Cheetah Chrome (Dead Boys):
And fucking Nancy, if someone you knew was selling dope,
she'd sneak off and try and buy up all the dope, before you
got there. ..Fucking Nancy. If Sid hadn't killed her, I
woulda, ha ha ha. Nancy was probably the most miserable
person I've ever met in my life
Leee Black
Childers:
If the Heartbreakers brought heroin to England, then Nancy
brought it to Sid. When the Heartbreakers were around., he
wasn't interested. Suddenly when Nancy came, bang. That was
the power of love. Her world was smack....she was a total
junkie prostitute. That doesn't mean I didn't like her, I
liked her fine.
Chrissie
Hynde:
Nancy was an opportunist. I'm not even going to say whether
I liked her of not, but she had a negative effect on Sid and
he didn't need that..
Johnny Rotten:
There's
nothing vindictive when I say she was a beast. She was a
very self-destructive human being who was determined to take
as many people down with her as possible. Nancy Spungen was
the complete Titanic looking for the iceberg, and she wanted
a full load.
Nora:
She was so utterly fucked up and evil...I was absolutely
convinced that girl was on a slow suicide mission, as I
believe most heroin addicts are. Only she didn't want to go
alone. She wanted to take Sid with her.
Bob Gruen:
She was whiny and not very good looking, and that made her
easy to dislike.
Chrissie
Hynde:
To tell you the truth, at that time it wouldn't have
surprised me if he or anyone killed her, she was that
obnoxious. When she started up with that incessant whining
she was more than the human mind could bear.
Marco Pirroni:
...Nancy, the vilest person
I’ve ever met. Looking back she must've been mentally
retarded. She loved Sid to be the cartoon punk monster the
papers said he was. The more Sid he became the more she
loved him and looked up to him and the bigger he felt. It
was a vicious (ha!) circle and we mustn't forget the drugs.
They're very important in all this.
Burchill & Parsons:
The root of all the bands (Sex Pistols) evil was an American
dancer Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sid Vicious, who
persuaded the bassist that Rotten's wise decision not to go
out without his entourage and bodyguard was nothing more
than acute, unjustified paranoia.
Marco Pirroni:
I don't know
that she deserved to be stabbed to death. I'm pleased that
she was
stabbed to death, we all had a good laugh about it. Looking
back, you think “that fucking woman!” There was something
wrong with her, she wasn't all there. It wasn't just that
she was fantastically stupid. |
