Editing Sid Vicious (section)

== The Flowers of Romance and Siouxsie and the Banshees (1976) ==
In 1976, Vicious co-founded, as vocalist and saxophone player,<ref>{{cite web |title=The Flowers of Romance |url=http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/flowersofromance.htm |website=punk77.co.uk |publisher=Punk77 |access-date=2 February 2022}}</ref> [[The Flowers of Romance (British band)|the Flowers of Romance]] along with [[the Clash]] co-founder guitarist [[Keith Levene]], [[Viv Albertine]] and [[Palmolive (musician)|Palmolive]] (who would both go on to become the guitarist and the first drummer of [[the Slits]] respectively), and [[Kenny Morris (musician)|Kenny Morris]] (future drummer of [[Siouxsie and the Banshees]]) who would replace Palmolive who got kicked out of the band by Vicious after rejecting his advances.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Pilgrimage of Palmolive |date=25 February 2014 |url=https://tomtommag.com/2014/02/the-pilgrimage-of-palmolive/}}</ref> In the music documentary, "Punk Attitude", [[Chrissie Hynde]] remarked that at this time, he learned to play bass by staying up for 3 nights on [[amphetamines|speed]] playing along to the [[Ramones]] first album ''[[Ramones (album)|Ramones]]'',<ref name=attitude>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7ivTF2nMFE "Punk Attitude", written and directed by Don Letts, 2005]</ref> fixating on the up-tempo bump-and-grind pattern of the song "I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement", a pattern he would apply to most of his playing from then on.<ref name="auto7"/>

In June 1976, Vicious went to a Sex Pistols concert at the [[100 Club]]. [[Nick Kent]], who had played guitar with the Sex Pistols early on and had left music to become an ''[[NME]]'' music critic and champion of punk rock (and who was Hynde's boyfriend), was also there, and was apparently blocking Vicious's view. Vicious, high on speed, lashed Kent's head with a rusted motorcycle chain which, according to Hynde, he carried with him.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Robinson |first1=Charlotte |title=So Tough...June 2006 |url=https://www.popmatters.com/060809-sidvicious-2496104849.html |website=PopMatters |date=15 June 2006 |publisher=Pop Matters |access-date=3 February 2022}}</ref> The incident was reported in the papers but no charges were laid.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sid Vicious...A Series of Events |url=https://www.jungle-records.net/index.php/12-newreleases/52-sid-vicious |website=jungle-records.net |publisher=Jungle Records |access-date=2 February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Wells |first=Steven | title = Musical hack attacks | format  = Music blog |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2008/jan/08/musicalhackattacks |work =The Guardian|date=8 January 2008 |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141006160452/https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2008/jan/08/musicalhackattacks | archive-date = 6 October 2014 |access-date=13 June 2022 |location=London}}</ref>

Although the songs they wrote would later be performed by other bands, the Flowers of Romance did not perform live, or record any music. But Vicious came to the attention of members of [[The Damned (band)|the Damned]]. He was considered, along with [[Dave Vanian]], for the position of lead singer, but Vicious failed to show up for the audition.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Linazasoro |first1=Nick |title=It's back to 1977 with the original Damned |url=https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2022/10/30/its-back-to-1977-with-the-original-damned/ |website=brightonandhovenews.org |date=30 October 2022 |publisher=Brighton and Hove News |access-date=21 December 2023}}</ref>

On 20 September 1976, Vicious appeared with [[Siouxsie and the Banshees]], playing drums only at their first gig at the [[100 Club Punk Special]] in London's [[Oxford Street]],<ref name="Savage 2" /> a two-day festival co-founded by McLaren. The following day, Vicious went to the Damned's performance. Drunk and high on amphetamines, he hurled his glass at the stage, attempting to strike Vanian. He missed, and the glass shattered against a pillar and blinded a woman in one eye.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://punkgirldiaries.wordpress.com/100-club-punk-festival-20th-september-1976/|title=Private Site|website=punkgirldiaries.wordpress.com}}</ref> Vicious was arrested and imprisoned at [[Ashford Remand Centre]]. Westwood and Albertine visited Vicious in prison, with Albertine bringing the book ''[[Helter Skelter (book)|Helter Skelter]]'' as a gift.<ref name="Savage 2">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jan/18/sid-vicious-death-icon |title= Sid Vicious: Little boy lost|last= Savage |first= Jon | access-date   =  13 June 2022 | archive-date  =    29 December 2014 |  url-status=live  |   archive-url  =   https://web.archive.org/web/20141229080131/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jan/18/sid-vicious-death-icon |newspaper=[[The Observer]]|date= 17 January 2009 |location=London}}</ref><ref>Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys by Viv Albertine, page 137</ref>