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Sid Vicious
Acting · follow into films and chains
Biography
Sid Vicious, born John Simon Ritchie, was an English musician and vocalist. He achieved fame as a member of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols, replacing Glen Matlock, who had fallen out of favour with the rest of the group. American expatriate Chrissie Hynde, before she formed the Pretenders, tried to convince Ritchie to join her in a sham marriage so she could get a work permit in the UK. John Lydon nicknamed Ritchie "Sid Vicious" after Lydon's pet hamster Sid.
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KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
Love in the Ruins
From the Sex Pistols' collapse to the quiet ache of post-punk, a chain of films where rebellion and romance burn together, and the fallout is everything.
8 films
The Camera in the Mosh Pit
A documentary journey through punk and hardcore, from Los Angeles clubs to Washington basements, tracing how filmmakers caught the noise before it disappeared.
8 films
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