Nansi Lora Spangen ( Eng. Nancy Laura Spungen , February 27, 1958 , Lower Moreland Township , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA - October 12, 1978 , New York , USA) - girlfriend of the British punk rock band Sid Vicious's Sex Pistols . It has been the subject of much controversy among music historians and Sex Pistols fans.
Nancy Spungen | |
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Nancy laura spungen | |
Date of Birth | February 27, 1958 |
Place of Birth | Philadelphia , PA , USA |
Date of death | October 12, 1978 (20 years) |
Place of death | New York , USA |
A country | |
Occupation | , |
Father | Frank Spungen |
Mother | Deborah Spungen |
Biography
Nancy Spungen was born February 27, 1958 in Pennsylvania to a middle-class Jewish family. Father Frank was a salesman and broker [1] ; Deborah’s mother owned the organic food store The Earth Shop in the town of Jenkinton .
Childhood and adolescence
Problems in the life of Nancy Spungen began already from the moment of birth: the girl was born prematurely (in the seventh month) [2] in a half-suffocated state, with a cord tightened around the neck by a knot. Acute diagnosis required an immediate and complete blood transfusion. According to the memoirs of the mother, "in the insulator, she looked like a small windmill, wildly turning her arms and legs." To implement the transfusion, I had to tie the baby. The doctor noted that this is a rare case: usually children in this state look sleepy [1] .
Eight days later, parents were allowed to take her daughter home. A few days later, the mother suspected that something was wrong with her daughter again. “All the children scream, but she screamed continuously,” Deborah Spungeon later wrote in her autobiography “I Do Not Want to Live This Life.” Already at the age of three months, the girl was prescribed large doses of phenobarbital , but she continued to show hyperactivity , started screaming for no apparent reason and suffered from insomnia. The doctor reacted to all this only by increasing the doses of the prescribed drug [3] .
By the age of two, Nancy began to stutter and at the same time began to attack - verbally and physically - both members of her family and strangers; such bouts of aggressiveness happened to her several times a day. At the age of three, parents first visited the psychotherapist’s daughter. He promised that “it will pass with age” [1] . One of the diagnoses, “ motor visual discrepancy, ” meant, for example, that a girl subsequently could not sew: for example, there was no coordination between vision and hand movements [1] . Meanwhile, an IQ test conducted at the age of four showed that Nancy has a highly developed intellect and is at the level of development of an average seven-year-old child. At school, she was transferred to the fourth grade at the end of two, bypassing the third [3] .
Nancy discovered music at the age of nine. After attending the “ Hair ” show, Frank and Deborah bought a record with a musical that her daughter listened to, sitting on the floor, continuously. Soon, her favorite performers were The Doors , The Rolling Stones , Janice Joplin and Led Zeppelin ; she spent all the money given out by her parents for pocket expenses for the purchase of records. By the time she was ten years old, Rolling Stone magazine , the books of Sylvia Plath , J. D. Salinger , Kurt Vonnegut, and F. S. Fitzgerald [3] became the favorite reading of the girl.
At the same time, Nancy showed aggression towards her younger sister Susan and brother David, attacked her mother with a hammer during an argument . In addition, Deborah recalled that her daughter was extremely sensitive to any changes; for example, undressing or dressing her was already a serious task. When the girl was 10 years old, the family moved from Philadelphia to the suburbs, and “such a change was no longer within the reach of power” [1] . Nancy easily made first contact with people, but almost immediately the relationship deteriorated. She had no friends; In her autobiography, Deborah recalled that she once found a note on the front door in which a neighbor girl asked Nancy not to approach her and called her "a witch." Nancy suffered hallucinations and unexplained seizures, suddenly began to tear her hair out, and once ran to the nurse with scissors, threatening to kill her. The visits to the psychotherapist stopped after she attacked him.
Parents tried to turn to the teachers, but those “just shrugged. There is no place for such children to find help, ”said Deborah. Nancy's problems, according to her parents, were aggravated by her high intelligence: everything would be much easier if she were mentally retarded. When the girl was eleven years old, the psychotherapist prescribed her drugs, from which she started hallucinations. One day, after a sleepless night caused by them, Nancy left the classroom, left the school and never returned again [3] .
Violent bouts continued; on average, every month the girl was taken away in an ambulance [1] . In 1969, the attending physician suggested in his report that his patient may be suffering from schizophrenia and that she needs a neurological examination. However, after the examination was carried out, the doctors decided not to report the results to their parents, but simply discharged the girl from the clinic, explaining that they could not help her with anything. Nancy (whose pupils were dilated and pulse quickened) was tested for drug use, and when no traces were found in the body, they were prescribed torazin and sent to the Philadelphia Institute of Psychiatry ( Philadelphia Psychiatric Institute ) - as was promised, to the adolescent department. But when the next day the parents came to visit her daughter, it turned out that she was locked up in a ward with elderly women [1] [~ 1] .
The first signs of improvement in her condition began to be observed in Connecticut , at the Glenholme school for children with psychological problems; here she lost weight and for the first time showed the ability to make friends with peers. However, after returning from the summer holidays, Nancy found that the director had changed here (she called him “dumb f * g bastard”), the number of students doubled and there was no trace of the friendly atmosphere. Nancy again began to behave aggressively, she developed a persecution mania. In the fall of 1971, a thirteen-year-old girl was transferred to Devereux Manor High School , where adolescents aged 14-18 studied. That same evening, she phoned home and told her that there were solid drug addicts around her, after which she ran away from school and traveled to her home in Huntington Valley. When the parents called the school to inform the concerned (as they thought) teachers that Nancy was fine, it turned out that the school had not noticed the disappearance of the student at all [3] .
Despite the fact that the school (for which the family had to pay $ 1,000 a month) left a negative impression on the parents (Deborah believed that the girls actually used the forbidden drugs there), it was decided to return the daughter back - first of all for the courses of psychotherapy . One day, returning home for Thanksgiving , Nancy admitted to her sister that she herself began to use drugs and steal; The latter circumstance did not hide from the eyes of the mother herself, who, after one of her daughter’s visits, discovered that the wedding ring was missing. In early 1972, Nancy called home, and after no one picked up the phone, she opened her veins with scissors. Soon a new neurological examination was performed. It did not allow for any definite diagnosis, but the doctor suggested that the girl’s condition was caused by birth trauma [3] [~ 2] .
In early 1973, Nancy again ran away from school; three days later, she was discovered at the New York port terminal, at the bus stop, and returned to Devereux High . Soon after her fifteenth birthday, the girl opened her veins with a razor. Her life was saved by a miracle: the doctors said that if she were hospitalized five minutes later, everything would be over. Despite all this, the school authorities allowed her to finish school: it happened in April 1974 . Nancy enrolled at the University of Colorado at Boulder , from where she was expelled five months after she attempted to first transfer stolen property and then buy marijuana from a disguised FBI agent. According to the police order, she was forced to leave Boulder immediately [3] .
Nancy got the license, but she crashed the car twice; after the mother did not allow her daughter to once again sit behind the wheel, she broke the window with her hands, almost cutting off her finger, and was sent to a psychiatric clinic. While her daughter was not at home, Deborah, taking up unpacking her belongings, found among them syringes and spoons. It became clear that her daughter was a drug addict. Soon, the patient was sent home from the clinic, refusing treatment; Since then, Nancy Spungen has not received psychiatric care [3] .
In New York
In January 1975, Nancy got a job in a clothing store, but was fired the very next day; from then on, she was interested only in music and drugs. In the morning and in the afternoon she listened to music, in the evening with her friends went to Philadelphia rock clubs. As more and more drugs were needed, they had to steal or sell drugs. Soon she became a full-fledged group , telling her sister about her sexual adventures. Her first group was Bad Company . Aerosmith members, having received sexual services from Nancy, decided to set it on fire; she agreed, they changed their minds [4] . Once the entire composition of Pretty Things and all of their workers' scenes, she invited to her parent suburban home on Red Barn Lane. At the same time, the aggressiveness in her behavior did not diminish: after Nancy threatened to bring “friends from the mafia” to crush the house, Frank and Deborah decided what they had done for their daughter everything that was in their power, and suggested that she go to look for a separate house [4] .
In December 1975, Nancy moved into her new apartment on 23 West Street, New York, a block away from the Chelsea Hotel. At first, things were going well: the mother during her visits found the refrigerator full, the daughter healthy and cheerful; listened to stories about her intentions to find work in rock magazines. Indeed, in those days, Nancy published a few notes about punk rock - in particular, a review for the New York Rocker about the concert of The Heartbreakers , a group that she especially liked then [5] .
Soon, however, home calls increased; Nancy vaguely complained about life and that no one loved her, asked her mother for money [4] . Then in early 1976, Nancy found herself a new hobby: she met Debbie Harry and The Ramones , became a member of the New York punk scene, became friends with the famous band Sabel Starr, then-girlfriend Johnny Sanders . For a while, Nancy was close with Richard Hell , then with Jerry Nolan, a member of the New York Dolls and then The Heartbreakers. Later Nolan claimed that he did not have intimacy with her: “We were just friends. I respected her and I liked her because she was among the few who understood the music of the group, ”he said.
After Debbie Harry repainted her hair with her own hand, Nancy told her parents that she had found a job: strippers in clubs in Times Square . One of her friends later recalled that at this time Nancy was also working on prostitution, in particular, in a brothel; this provided her with an income that allowed her to finally sit on heroin [4] .
In May of the same year, Nancy decided to do away with drugs; she had been treated with methadone and completely cleared. However, a month later she was again on heroin and at some point almost became a victim of an overdose: Lance Loud, a well-known TV host who lived next door, saved her. After that, she again started the methadone course, and in November 1976 decided to join friends, first of all, Jerry Nolan, who were heading for London, to clean up their nineteenth birthday. In March 1977, Nancy Spungen flew to the UK.
Departure for London and return
A few days after arriving in London, Nancy called her mother and enthusiastically told her that she had met the Sex Pistols . She had her own creative plans, in particular, with the opportunity to gather a female punk band and go on tour. This project did not materialize, and she returned to heroin, in telephone conversations with her mother complaining that no one loved her, her friends did not want to see her, and she had to sleep in a car [4] .
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1978 video interview | |
Nancy explains to the correspondent why Sid leaves the Sex Pistols. |
Nancy : Sid, please wake up. Because - well, absolutely you will not understand, then you mumble there, you yourself do not understand. We ourselves called them; it means we spend his time - so let's give him a good interview.
Sid ( sluggish ): Well, do you know what I want to say?
Oh Sid, please wake up. Talk! It is totally unintelligible, and you can't understand you. It’s a good interview.
Sid Well, do you know what I mean?
Nancy Do I Know What You Mean? About why you called it a day? Yeah, I know what you mean. It is a woman who has always been on his own. any more, he just wasn't, and he wasn't shaping up. He was looking for what he was looking for and what he was looking for.
She was saying. She looks around, bored. Sid is asleep, Nancy spreads her legs and thrusts her crotch at camera.
Nancy (sarcastic) Shall we kiss for you? (she blows a kiss to the camera)
Sid drifts momentarily into consciousness, gives up, it's too much effort. Starts hopelessly looking for something on the bed.
After being rejected by frontman Johnny Rotten, [7] Nancy began to pursue bassist Sid Vicious; between them developed a strong close relationship. In the summer, the couple moved into Sid Ann Beverley’s mother’s apartment in Dahlston, northeast London; however, Nancy did not have a relationship with the latter; Soon, she and Sid moved to the hotel, then decided to find an apartment for themselves, and at the end of August 1977 moved into the house number 3 at Pindeok Meuss in the Maida Vale area [4] .
By February 1978, after the breakup of the Sex Pistols, Nancy had gained fame: several times she appeared in court on drug possession charges; the yellow press began to create the image of Romeo and Juliet from the Underworld from Sid and Nancy. Meanwhile, an extremely negative attitude has developed in the punk community. Malcolm Maclaren recalled:
When Nancy Spungen entered my store, it was - as if Dr. Strangelove would have sent this horrible attack on England specifically, choosing my store specifically for this ... I tried all means to have her - either moved the car, or poisoned her, or kidnapped her and sent by sea to New York ... [7] Original Text (Eng.) If I’ve been sent, I’m trying to get a little bit more than that. shipped back to New York ... |
“If I call her a monster, then - not at all for some special malice. It was a human being, aimed at self-destruction, which set out to take as many people with him <into the grave> as was possible. Nancy Spungen was the perfect Titanic in search of her iceberg, and she wanted to be loaded - to the eyeballs, [4] , said John Lydon. Nora's wife echoed him: “She was beyond destruction and vicious. I never doubted for a second that the girl had conceived to slowly commit suicide. This, in fact, she differed little from other heroinists. That's just - to leave alone she did not want. She wanted to take Sid with her ” [7] .
About a month Nancy and Sid spent in Paris, where they were shooting the film "The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle". Upon returning to London, Nancy decided to become the manager of her boyfriend. Deciding that it was in America they were going to succeed, on August 24, 1978, Sid and Nancy flew to New York, where they took a room at the Chelsea Hotel [4] .
Return to New York
Deborah, who had not seen her daughter for a year and a half and judged her condition only from photographs in newspapers, was struck by the changes: “She looked like a victim of the Holocaust: blue skin, bleached hair, deeply sunken eyes, dark circles under them, scars and facial pains . She was very thin and her black clothes were dirty. ”
In the near future, Nancy's plans were to take Cid's career in New York, find a clinic with methadone therapy, and clean up. However, the first week they spent in the parental home in Huntingdon Valley, lying on the couch, smoking and getting into sleep every now and then. We managed to organize several concerts for Sid at Max's Kansas City in September, but heroin took its toll: the couple less and less often left the room at the Chelsea Hotel, where they now finally settled. After the mattress caught fire due to a cigarette not extinguished, Sid and Nancy were transferred to another number, 100. Here, turning off the lights and drawing the curtains, they lay, smoked and watched TV, from time to time taking friends (including Ramon ) and drug dealers (Rocket Redgler).
On October 8, Nancy called her mother and asked for money. Sid joined, very upset and worried, and began to ask for $ 3000, and immediately. Hearing the amount, Deborah just hung up. She had no such money. That same day, Nancy called again to apologize and say that she loved her mother and father very much. At the same time, she noticed that she would probably return home, because she feels that she has already fallen to the very bottom. She asked Deborah to find a detox clinic for her and Sid in Pennsylvania. The very next day, Deborah fulfilled the request; however, in the clinic they asked her to call back - on October 12 (she made a note on the calendar) [4] .
On Wednesday, October 11, Nancy went shopping with Sid and music friends Steve Bators and Neon Leon [~ 3] . In a store in Times Square, she bought a folding knife with a five-inch blade. It was a gift for Sid, who needed a means of self-defense: in the clinic on Spring Street, where he had already undergone a course of methadone therapy, he was repeatedly beaten by drug addicts [4] .
At 21:45, Sid and Nancy called on Neon-Leon and Katie O'Rourke, who shot number 119. They later recalled that Sid was in a depressed state: he repeated that he was ugly, could not play and had no future. In this case, the knife was in his hands, he now and then brought it to his face. Nancy walked around the room and demanded drugs ( English Come up with some drugs! Good drugs! ). In response to Sid's moaning, she just sent him away. At some point, she measured her muscles with Sid and said that she was stronger than him: she was dragging him out of the restaurant: “Look at my muscles. I'm strong, I carried Sid from a restaurant. I can carry it, but it can not carry me ” [4] .
Events October 12th
Around midnight, Sid and Nancy left number 119. Neon-Leon went to the club (he returned to the hotel at 3:30), Katie had to go to New Jersey, where she worked as a dancer. Fifteen minutes later, Sid returned to number 119: he brought gold discs with a request to look after them and took a new knife accidentally left here [8] .
At 2:30 am in the Roquets Redgler apartment in Queens the telephone rang. Nancy requested to bring dilaudid (synthetic morphine D-4s) and needles. At 3:05 Lisa Garcia from number 103 heard a loud knock at the door of Sid and Nancy’s room and a male voice that sounded ominous: “Open. Open up. I am not joking! ”( English Let me in. Let me in. I'm not playing! ) [8] .
At 3:15, Redgler arrived at the hotel and said that he could not find the drug [9] . According to him, Nancy was wearing panties and a vest. Sid in black pants and a sweater loosely prostrated on the bed. Both have already taken a sedative ( tuinal ), but have not given up on the idea of injecting dilaudid intravenously. Subsequently, Redglair’s testimony was recognized as significant, according to which Nancy showed him a purse full of $ 50 and $ 100 bills: she said she had $ 1,400 in stock that she would spend on drugs. Redgler took several hundred dollars and promised to bring drugs later [8] .
At 4:00 am, Nancy called Neon-Leon and asked for some marijuana. According to her words, Sid is cut down ( crashing out ); both of them are on tualale. At 4:15 Neon-Leon heard a loud knock at the door somewhere far off in the corridor. Then a metallic sound fell to the floor; “Perhaps a knife,” he later assumed. [8]
At 4:55, Redglair went out of number 100 and spotted Steve Cincotti (drug Steve Cincotti ), a drug dealer who constantly supplied Sid and Nancy Tuinal and methaqualone ; he entered the elevator in the lobby. Chincotti later claimed during the interrogation that he only brought the Tiunal and immediately left.
At 5:00 a complaint was received from room 228 about the noise in the room on the floor below. The clerk at the counter sent a messenger named Kenny to the scene. In the corridor, Sid wandered in a deranged state. When he saw Kenny, he said a few insults (of a racial character) and pounced on him with his fists. Kenny gave the attacker a surrender, breaking his nose; Already sitting on the floor, Sid asked: “Is it possible to do this with drunks?” At 5:15 Kenny returned to the foyer [8] .
At 7:30, Vera Mendelssohn from room 102 woke up from female moans coming from room 100. “She was clearly alone. There was no one around, she didn’t call anyone by name, she just moaned, ”she later said. Frightened, Mendelssohn decided not to find out what was wrong, and soon fell asleep.
At 9:30, an unknown man rang the clerk at the counter to Herman Ramos and said: “Something happened in room 100” ( Eng. “ There’s trouble in room 100” ). The identity of the caller was not established: it is only known that he called not from the hotel. A few seconds after Ramos sent a messenger by the name of Charlie to the number, Sid called from number 100: “Here a person is ill, needs help” [8] .
Entering the room, Charlie saw Nancy: she was lying under the sink in the bathroom; she was wearing only black underwear, covered in blood. There was blood on the bed. Ramos called an ambulance, which arrived shortly after the police arrived - at about 10:45. At 10:30, the lodgers of room 105 saw Sid in the hall: he was going to his room. According to the police report, Sid woke up and went to the clinic for methadone. He saw Nancy lying in the bathroom, but claimed that he had not noticed the blood and therefore did not understand that she was dead. The blood, he said, he saw only when he returned [8] .
Starting at 11 o'clock, the police began to search the room. Drugs and syringes were found in large quantities, as well as a bloody knife bought the day before. But there was no money in the room that Rocket Redgler was talking about. Police found Sid in the corridor; he cried, obviously under the strong influence of drugs. Vera Mendelsohn, hearing the noise, left the room into the corridor. She saw Viches surrounded by police. “His face looked beaten,” she later claimed (according to Soho Daily News ). [10]
He cried and repeated: “Baby, baby, baby ...” Seeing Mendelssohn, he addressed her: “I killed her. I can not live without her ... "The woman, according to her, was so shocked that she didn’t remember exactly the phrase he said later:" She fell on the knife ... "( Eng. She fell on the knife ), or -" Must she must have fallen on the knife ”( Eng. She must have fallen on the knife ).
When asked by the policeman why he left Nancy in the bathroom and went for the methadone, Sid mumbled only: "Oh, I am a beast" ( English Oh, I'm a dog ). Sid was taken to the station on 51st Street in handcuffs; here he made a confession and in the evening he was charged with second-degree murder [10] . At 14:20, Nancy's body in a green bag was taken out of the Chelsea Hotel, and the next day was recognized by Frank Spangen who arrived for this purpose in New York [8] .
Funeral
Nancy Spungen was buried on Sunday, October 15 at King David Cemetery in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. Friends were asked not to bring flowers, but instead to make contributions to the local rehabilitation center for drug addicts, where, shortly before, the Nancy Spungen Foundation was established by the parents of the deceased. She was buried in a green prom dress, repainted her hair in a natural color [4] .
In a speech that was made over the coffin by a rabbi, these words were
From the moment of her birth, Nancy was a special, gifted and unhappy girl. Despite the fact that her parents surrounded her with love and care, she suffered from internal torments and torments. She turned to drugs not for sensual perceptions, but to get rid of the pain that had been torturing her. She understood well what was happening to her, but was not responsible for her actions. She lived for the sake of one hour, for the sake of one day and so - a lot of life together in past years ... She saw, heard and felt something that was not given to others. She was - different. Original Text (Eng.) Nancy was a special, gifted and troubled girl. Despite the car’s life, she’s experienced an inner torment and disquietude. She turned to drugs. For her actions. It was living, it was heard, it felt like it was not living. She was different. |
Under the name of Nancy on the tombstone, the Hebrew text read: “Haya Leah, daughter of Ephraim Aaron” ( Eng. Chaya Lea, daughter of Ephraim Aharon , are Jewish names of Nancy and Frank) [4] .
Versions of what happened
Some time later, Sid Vicious was released from Rikers prison on bail of 30 thousand dollars [11] . On October 22, still in a state of deep shock from the death of her beloved, he tried to commit suicide by taking a lethal dose of methadone, and on October 28 he repeated the attempt by opening his veins. As stated by the journalist and writer Malcolm Butt, Sid repeated this: “I want to be reunited with her. I have not fulfilled my part of the contract ” [12] . This, along with statements by Nancy Spungen (made six weeks before her death) that she would not live to be 21 years old and intend to "die" in a flash of glory " [1] , was interpreted by many as a recognition of the failed mutual suicide [13] . After being discharged from the hospital, Sid got involved in a fight, again received a period (55 days), and on February 1, after being released on bail, he took a lethal dose of heroin and was found dead the next morning [11] .
Numerous alternative versions of the tragedy that occurred at the Chelsea Hotel on October 12 were put forward. Among the suspects was named, in particular, drug dealer Rocket Redgler, who delivered Nancy on the night of her death 40 hydromorphone capsules. Redgler, who denied his guilt, pointed out that he had seen that night at the hotel of another dealer, Steve Chincotti, who could almost certainly enter number 100. However, shortly after Wishes died, the case was closed; the question of who killed Nancy Spungen was forever unanswered.
After death
Most of the musicians who knew Nancy Spungen spoke negatively about her (with the exception of Jerry Nolan [5] and Iggy Pop [2] ; however, the latter was only intimate with her). Malcolm McLaren and John Lydon, manager and vocalist of The Sex Pistols respectively, spoke extremely harshly about her. No less definite was the attitude of American musicians towards her. Chita Krom ( Dead Boys ) noticed with laughter that if Sid had not outstripped him, he would have killed Nancy himself. “To tell you the truth, I wouldn’t be surprised if <Sid> or someone else wanted to kill her. She was so nasty! “And when it began its unbearable nagging — it was impossible for any human brain to endure such a thing” [7] , ”said Chrissie Hind . Marco Pirroni , calling Nancy the “most disgusting human being” he had ever met, added: “I don’t know if she deserved to be slaughtered. <I can only say that> I am glad that they slaughtered her, we all laughed heartily at this ... "Jane (Wayne) County, who left a relatively discreet comment about Nancy Spungen, noted (a):" Nobody loved her in New York and everyone hated her in London for the way she clung to Sid. Of course, there was something childish about her that caused pity, but it was immediately clear that she was a walking nuisance that should be avoided by all means ” [7] .
The stories of the death of Nancy Spungen were accompanied by many publications in the tabloid press that aggravated the general negative perception of the personality of the deceased. In the biography book “And I Don't Want to Live This Life,” Deborah Spungen wrote:
All of us, both friends and relatives, were terrified of the vulgarity with which Nancy was humiliated in the press. For all of them, she was Sickening Nancy, some rich drug addict hungry for pleasure. They knew nothing about her problems. And they were not interested.Deborah Spungen, "And I Don't Want To Live This Life" |
Frank Spungen offered to speak in the press outlining his own version of what happened, in an attempt (according to his wife) “to oppose at least something to all this lies written about her. He believed it was important to restore the dignity of Nancy. Or at least try ” [1] . Through friends, the family went to the Philadelphia Bulletin correspondent, who came to Spungen’s house on Saturday and agreed to listen to them, promising to leave aside everything related to Sid’s personality, punk rock and the circumstances of the murder. On Sunday morning, on the day of the funeral, an article appeared in which family members of the deceased spoke about the problems that had plagued her since early childhood. “We liked the article that came out in Bulletin the next morning of the day Nancy was buried. And although this story of ours did not change public opinion at all ... we are glad that we did it, ” [1] ,” wrote Deborah Spungen in her autobiography.
After many years (and largely due to the Alex Cox film Sid and Nancy ), interest in the Spungen figure began to grow. There appeared (first of all, in feminist circles) authors who asserted that it owes its reputation exclusively to sex-chauvinism that dominates the rock scene and around it. “Like the tragic heroine of Oliver, Nancy Spungen lived and died in the name of her man. But unlike Dickens' sacrificial figure, Nancy Spungen after her death was prepared only for insults ” [5] , - Nina Antonia noted in her essay. She claimed that it was Nancy who gave meaning to Sid’s life, who longed for love but did not find it; practically replaced his mother, whom he was deprived of [5] .
Ultimately, public opinion about Nancy Spungen remained radically divided. Some consider her a dexterous and prudent schemer, “nauseous Nancy,” who brought Sid Vicious to death. Others see her as a 19-year-old girl with a difficult fate, falling in love with a defective and unhappy person like her. “As is usually the case in such cases, the truth lies somewhere in the middle,” notes the author of the biography, Nancy Spungen, on the Punk77 portal [14] .
Notes
- Comments
- ↑ Nancy has not forgotten this daily imprisonment until the end of her days; she mentioned him during the last conversation with her mother, on the last Sunday of her life.
- ↑ This meant that, from then on, the state of Pennsylvania incurred half the cost of maintaining a girl at school; Devereux Foundation helped only children with physical brain damage.
- ↑ Neon Leon; Leon "Neon" Webster; black punk rock artist; not relevant to a boxer, also known as Neon Leon
- Sources
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Philadelphia Bulletin . nancys.110mb.com. The appeal date is August 1, 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 Nancy Spungen: Her life and death . www.punk77.co.uk. Circulation date August 1, 2010. Archived April 2, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Nancy Spungeon biography. 1958-1975 . nancys.110mb.com. The appeal date is August 1, 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Nancy Spungen biography. 1975-1978 . Years 1975-1978. Biography. The appeal date is August 1, 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 News . www.carolinecoon.com. Circulation date August 1, 2010. Archived April 2, 2012.
- ↑ Sid & Nancy intrview Undefined . nancys.110mb.com. The appeal date is August 1, 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Women in Punk. Nancy Spungen Neopr . www.punk77.co.uk. Circulation date August 1, 2010. Archived February 4, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 October 12, 1978 . nancys.110mb.com. Circulation date August 1, 2010. Archived January 30, 2009.
- ↑ Anthony Bruno. Punk-rock Romeo and Juliet, p. 5 . www.trutv.com. Circulation date August 1, 2010. Archived April 2, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 Anthony Bruno. Punk-rock Romeo and Juliet, p. 6 . www.trutv.com. Circulation date August 1, 2010. Archived April 2, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 Sid Vicious biography . www.hotshotdigital.com. The circulation date is May 3, 2010. Archived August 25, 2011.
- ↑ Anthony Brono. I didnt keep the bargain (inaccessible link) . www.trutv.com. Circulation date August 1, 2010. Archived April 2, 2012.
- ↑ Tragic in Love, Tragic in Death (inaccessible link) . www.trutv.com. Circulation date August 1, 2010. Archived April 2, 2012.
- ↑ Nancy Spungen Unsolved . www.punk77.co.uk. Circulation date August 1, 2010. Archived April 2, 2012.