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Early life:
Sid Vicious was born John Simon Ritchie in London on 10th May 1957. His father, a grenadier guard, left soon after his birth, leaving his troubled mother to bring him up alone.
Anne was a heroin user who moved the family to Ibiza so that she could make a living selling drugs. They later moved back to England and in 1974, John attended Hackney Technical College. Here, he formed a firm friendship with budding Sex Pistol John Lydon (Johnny Rotten). By this time John was already injecting drugs with his mother and his violent outbursts included strangling a cat and assaulting a pensioner.
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