Autographs of Sid Vicious
Simon John Ritchie (10 May 1957 – 2 February 1979), better known by his stage name Sid Vicious, was an English musician, best known as the second bassist for the punk rock band Sex Pistols. After his death in 1979 at the age of 21, he remained an icon of the punk subculture; one of his friends noted that he embodied "everything in punk that was dark, decadent and nihilistic."
Simon John Ritchie was born in Lewisham to John and Anne Ritchie (née McDonald; later named Anne Beverley; 1936–1996). Anne had dropped out of school and joined the British Army, where she met Ritchie's father, a guardsman at Buckingham Palace and a semi-professional trombone player on the London jazz scene. Shortly after Simon's birth, he and his mother moved to Ibiza, where they expected to be joined by his father, who did not appear and provided no financial support—Anne reportedly sold marijuana to get by. With the help of the British Embassy in Spain, Anne returned to England and, in 1965, married Christopher Beverley, who died six months later of kidney failure. Anne and Ritchie settled in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, where they lived from 1965 to 1971, and where Ritchie attended Sandown Court School (later renamed The Skinners' Kent Academy). In 1971, the pair moved to Stoke Newington in Hackney, East London, where Ritchie attended Clissold Park School (later renamed Stoke Newington School). At this time, Ritchie began using the name 'John Beverley'.
By 1973, Anne's life was consumed by her addiction to heroin, to the point where, as Ritchie's friend John Wardle claimed in a 2009 interview, she was unaware that her son was attending Kingsway College of Further Education (later known as Westminster Kingsway College). While at Kingsway, which he was likely attending to complete his O levels, Ritchie told a counsellor that he was contemplating suicide. When Ritchie turned 16 that year, Anne kicked him out of her home. In a 1988 interview, Anne said: "I remember saying to him: 'It's either you or me, and it's not going to be me. I have got to try to preserve myself and you just fuck off.' He said: 'I've not got anywhere to go,' and I said: 'I don't care.' "
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The most expensive item with a signature of Sid Vicious (SEX PISTOLS NEVER MIND THE BANS ~ FULLY HAND SIGNED PUNK POSTER WITH SID VICIOUS) was sold in October 2012 for £2,950.00 while the cheapest item (SID VICIOUS Signed Flyer - Punk Rock Band - SEX PISTOLS) found a new owner for £0.99 in December 2014. The month with the most items sold (12) was August 2024 with an average selling price of £39.02 for an autographed item of Sid Vicious. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in November 2022 with £170.35 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £1.00 was September 2018. In average, an autographed item from Sid Vicious is worth £33.73.
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