Sid Vicious | Kamikaze Pilots, handwritten song lyrics, c. 1976

Sid Vicious

Kamikaze Pilots, handwritten song lyrics, c. 1976

twenty-eight lines in seven four-line verses neatly written in blue ballpoint, two page on a single leaf of pink unlined notepaper (204 x 165mm.), in custom black cloth folder, wear to edges, splitting at folds with some wear to one line of text, slight soiling

"The kids are on the loose,

They're thrashing the machines,

They're shooting up Junk,

Behind the scenes..."

EARLY LYRICS BY SID VICIOUS. Vicious was a member of a band with the unlikely name (suggested by Johnny Rotten) The Flowers of Romance before he joined the Sex Pistols. Rehearsals took place in Joe Strummer's Shepherd's Bush squat and mostly comprised Ramones covers, but they also penned their own songs, mostly in extravagantly bad taste. The Flowers of Romance never performed in front of an audience, let alone in a recording studio, but the line-up included Viv Albertine and Palmolive (The Slits) and Keith Levene (The Clash, PiL). This simply written song references hard drugs, S&M sex, and existential despair.