Editing Sid Vicious (section)

== Death and aftermath ==
[[File:ViciousDeathCertificate.gif|thumb|right|Vicious's death certificate]]
On the morning of 1 February 1979, after completing his detoxification programme, Vicious was released from Rikers Island. He arrived in Manhattan, and by chance, met his friend Peter Gravelle. Vicious asked Gravelle to find him some heroin. Gravelle brought $200 worth of the drug to the apartment of Michelle Robinson at 63 Bank Street, where he joined Vicious, Robinson, Beverley, [[Jerry Only]] of the band [[Misfits (band)|Misfits]],<ref name="MH1999">{{Cite magazine |last=Doreian |first=Robyn |date=August 1999 |title=A Day in the Life of the Misfits |magazine=[[Metal Hammer]] |location=UK |publisher=[[Future plc]] |issue=65 |pages=66–67}}</ref><ref name="Metal Hammer">{{cite web |last1=Everley |first1=Dave |title=Misfits' Jerry Only: I partied with Sid Vicious the night he died |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/misfits-jerry-only-i-partied-with-sid-vicious-the-night-he-died |website=Louder Sound |publisher=Metal Hammer |access-date=21 July 2021 |date=15 May 2020}}</ref> Eileen Polk, [[Jerry Nolan]] of [[the Heartbreakers]], Esther Herskovits, and [[Howie Pyro]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Schoemer |first1=Karen |title=The Day Punk Died |url=https://nymag.com/arts/popmusic/features/51394/ |website=New York |access-date=21 July 2021 |date=17 October 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Medina|first1=David|last2=Lombardi|first2=Frank|title=Punk rocker Sid Vicious dies of an overdose in 1979|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/punk-rocker-sid-vicious-dies-heroin-1979-article-1.2096835|work=Daily News|location=New York |access-date=6 May 2017|date=1 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Somaiya |first1=Ravi |title=Peter Gravelle, Vicious Enabler – Peter Gravelle Comes Clean About Selling Sid Vicious His Final Dose of Heroin |url=https://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/54087/ |website=New York |access-date=20 July 2021 |date=6 February 2009}}</ref> Gravelle said that they sat around doing drugs, and he left at 3:00&nbsp;a.m.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Somaiya |first1=Ravi |title=Peter Gravelle, Vicious Enabler, Feb 2009 |url=https://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/54087/ |work=New York |date=6 February 2009 |access-date=3 February 2022}}</ref>

Only said that he and Anne Beverley made dinner, and that he, Polk, and Pyro left early, when the heroin use began. He noted that Vicious was already nodding off,<ref name="Metal Hammer" /> and around 11:00&nbsp;p.m., he "picked him up and slapped him around" before Beverley put a blanket over him and told Only "that he'd be okay. I was like, he's just been in prison for two months so he had to be clean so you know you can't be messing with him."<ref name="MH1999" /> However, Gravelle said that Robinson gave Vicious four Tuinal (a barbiturate and a favourite of Sid's) to help him sleep.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Carey |first1=Wayne |title=Interview with Peter Gravelle: Sex Pistols Photographer |url=https://louderthanwar.com/interview-peter-gravelle-sex-pistols-photographer/ |website=Louder Than Bombs |access-date=20 July 2021 |date=8 February 2019}}</ref> Vicious died in the night of a drug overdose. Robinson and Beverley discovered his body the next morning, Friday, 2 February 1979.<ref>{{cite book |last=Savage |first=Jon |title=England's Dreaming |pages=527–529}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Strongman |first=Phil |title=Pretty Vacant |pages=241–242}}</ref>

Anne Beverley later claimed that Vicious and Spungen had made a [[suicide pact]] and that Vicious's death was not accidental. She produced a handwritten note, which she said she found in the pocket of Vicious's leather jacket,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Alper |first1=Eric |title=Sid Vicious wrote what appears to be a suicide note. |url=https://www.thatericalper.com/sid-vicious-wrote-what-appears-to-be-a-suicide-note-sids-mother-anne-beverley-found-it-in-the-pocket-of-his-jeans-after-his-death/ |website=thatericalper.com |date=16 August 2015 |publisher=That Eric Alper |access-date=4 February 2022}}</ref> reading "We had a death pact, and I have to keep my half of the bargain. Please bury me next to my baby. Bury me in my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye."<ref>{{cite web|title=Sid and Nancy: A Punk Mystery Story|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/nancy-and-sid-a-punk-mystery-story-91151.html#|website=The Independent|location=London|access-date=6 May 2017|date=11 October 2003}}</ref><ref name="ward">{{cite book|last1=Ward|first1=Laura|title=Famous Last Words: The Ultimate Collection of Finales and Farewells|date=2004|publisher=Robson Books, Ltd.|isbn=1-86105-723-7|page=131}}</ref> According to Deborah Spungen, Vicious wrote a letter to her when he was last hospitalized, saying approximately the same thing. "We always knew that we would go to the same place when we died", he wrote. "We so much wanted to die together in each other's arms. I cry every time I think about that. I promised my baby that I would kill myself if anything ever happened to her, and she promised me the same. This is my final commitment to my love."<ref name="auto3" /> Spungen was Jewish, and is buried in a Jewish cemetery in Pennsylvania. As an inter-faith burial was not possible, Sid's body was cremated at [[Garden State Crematory]] in [[New Jersey]].<ref name="mcneil">{{cite book|last1=McNeil|first1=Legs|last2=McCain|first2=Gillian|title=Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk|date=2014|publisher=Grove/Atlantic, Inc.|isbn=978-0-8021-9276-9|pages=358–359}}</ref> According to Polk, Beverley asked Deborah Spungen if she could scatter Vicious' ashes over Nancy's grave and Spungen said no. Regardless, Polk said that [[Jerry Only]] drove Beverley, her sister, and two of Vicious' friends, to Nancy's gravesite, where Beverley scattered Sid's ashes.<ref name="mcneil" />

By the time of Vicious's death, he and Spungen were internationally notorious. His death made the front pages of most New York newspapers for days, and Robinson's apartment building was thronged by reporters.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Florio |first1=Donna |title=When I Lived Across the Hall From Sid Vicious, Mar 2021 |url=https://lithub.com/when-i-lived-across-the-hall-from-sid-vicious/ |website=lithub.com |date=9 March 2021 |publisher=Literary Hub |access-date=4 February 2022}}</ref> Robinson would soon change her name. The first of many posthumous albums appeared in 1980; ''Sid Vicious'', released by [[EMI]] sub-label [[Innocent Records]], has as its jacket image the photo of Vicious's body being removed from 63 Bank St.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sid Vicious – Sid Vicious |url=https://www.discogs.com/master/898494-Sid-Vicious-Sid-Vicious |date=27 November 1980 |publisher=Discogs |access-date=4 February 2022}}</ref>