He first met John Lydon at Hackney Technical College and became what would later be known as one of the “gang of John’s” along with John Lydon, John Gray & John Wardle (aka Jah Wobble). “You’re so vicious…”īorn in London to unmarried parents, Sid moved briefly to Ibiza as a child before returning with his mother to London. The ironic “Vicious” came after the hamster tried to bite him: “Oh, your Sid is Vicious” and the Lou Reed song ‘Vicious’. John/Simon became “Sid” through John Lydon’s pet hamster – who in turn was named after Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett – Sid hated the name so John Lydon would taunt him with it. Born as John Simon Ritchie his mother Anne would insist on calling him Simon she also used the surname Beverley from a later marriage. There has been much confusion over Sid’s name.
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