Report: SID And NANCY's Punk Rock History To Go On Display

July 19, 2004

A blood-spattered poster which hung in the room in which Nancy Spungen was allegedly killed by her boyfriend, late SEX PISTOLS bassist Sid Vicious, is to be displayed for the first time at an art exhibition in London, the Independent on Sunday said.

Artifacts from the couple's room at New York's Chelsea Hotel, where Spungen died from a stab wound to the stomach in 1978, will be shown publicly for the first time at The Hospital gallery at a date yet to be announced, according to Reuters.

Vicious was charged with second-degree murder over the killing, but died the following year of a heroin overdose at the age of 21.

Both Vicious and Spungen, whose tempestuous relationship was chronicled in the 1986 film "Sid and Nancy", injected drugs. It is unclear whether the spots of blood on the poster were a result of their use or of Spungen's bloody death, the Independent said.

The collection of artifacts, including original T-shirts, posters and handwritten lyrics, has been assembled over 15 years by art dealer Paul Stolper and Andrew Wilson, deputy editor of Art Monthly.

They told The Independent on Sunday that the hotel items were sold at auction by Sid Vicious' mother, Anne Beverley.

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