Episode #02 | 2.20.18
Sid Vicious: Love Kills … Even a Mother’s Love
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In this episode
It’s long been believed that punk rock icon, Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose. That is true. However, new evidence suggests that his overly affectionate and increasingly dependent mum may have given him a hotshot in a final, maternal act of mercy.
Sources
Deborah Spungen: And I Don't Want to Live This Life
Noel Monk: 12 Days on the Road, the Sex Pistols and America
The Guardian: After 30 Years, a New Take on Sid, Nancy, and a Punk Rock Mystery
Sid Vicious Timeline: SidViciousLives.com
The Filth and the Fury, dir. Julien Temple
Who Killed Nancy, dir. Alan G. Parker
The Final 24: Sid Vicious, dir. Paul "Stan" Griffin
Disgraceland is a podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly. It melds music history, true crime and transgressive fiction. Disgraceland is not journalism. Disgraceland is entertainment. Entertainment inspired by true events. However, certain scenes, characters and names are sometimes fictionalized for dramatic purposes.
Extra Credit
This episode was co-written with Pat Healy.
Music
Score by Jake Brennan.
Mixed and Engineered by Sean Cahalin.
Disgraceland theme song, "Crenshaw Space Boogie" written and produced by Jake Brennan. Performed by Jake Brennan, Bryce Kanzer, Jay Cannava and Evan Kenney. Mixed and engineered by Adam Taylor.
This episode featured the songs, "School Night" and "Mr. Ray's Neighborhood" written, performed and produced by Bodega Girls with Adam Taylor and Paul Q. Kolderie.
The song, "Electric Jesus" by Jake Brennan was also used in this episode.
*illustration by Avi Spivak @avispivak
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