Sid's Mom Dead
We here at ATN tried to ignore this story as long as we could, thinking it was
some sick joke, but, as it turns out, it's not. On September 6, Anne Beverley,
58, the mother of former Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious, was found dead in her
home in Swadlincote, Derbyshire England, of a suspected drug overdose.
According to reports, police were tipped-off to check on the registered drug
addict when several friends received letters from Beverley saying she planned
to off herself. It was Beverley, you might recall, who in February of 1979
supplied Vicious with the fatal dose of heroin on which he OD'd while out on
bail pending a murder trial in the death of his partner-in-life (and now death,
we assume), Nancy Spungen. Friends suspect Beverley was dejected over the
Pistols' "Filthy Lucre" reunion tour, which she called "sad and pathetic." She
had gone on record describing the tour as something that would have had her
much more principled late son "rolling in his grave." Ironically, it was
Beverley herself who, just three days before her death, had performed at a
Swadlincote, Derbyshire pub to a crowd of 30 with her own punk band, Road Rage,
formed to cash in on the Pistols action, and which found her warbling her own
sad (or is it pathetic?) rendition of Sid's shining moment, a version of Frank
Sinatra's "My Way." There is no joke here.