Sid & Nancy | Punk Isn't Dead But These Two Sure Are

Patreon Bonus Episode. The year is 1978, and apparently the hottest relationship trend is mutual destruction.JoLynne and Amanda ruin history with the chaotic, toxic, and wildly overrated romance of SID VICIOUS and NANCY SPUNGEN. From the rise of punk in a collapsing England to the disaster that was the Sex Pistols’ U.S. tour, we follow two people who should have absolutely never been left unsupervised together.In this episode, we get into punk culture in 1970s England, why SID became famous despite barely being able to play bass, and how NANCY went from suburban Philadelphia to the center of the CBGB scene in New York. We talk heroin, hotel fights, bad decisions, worse men, and the murder at the Chelsea Hotel that turned their mess into legend.Spoiler: this was not a love story. It was codependency with better eyeliner.In this episode• How punk exploded out of economic collapse and pure spite• Why SID VICIOUS was more image than musician• NANCY SPUNGEN’s complicated life before New York• The Sex Pistols’ absolute trainwreck of a U.S. tour• Room 100 at the Chelsea Hotel and the murder that followed• Why history keeps trying to make terrible men romanticCreditsHosts: JoLynne & AmandaProduced by Barely HistoricalContact: [email protected]’s ruin the past.