"This Sid image is a stencil I made from a portrait by Jim Jocoy. The portrait was taken at a party after the Sex Pistols final show at Winterland in San Francisco. Jim was kind enough to give me permission to use this recently published photo as a reference.
"The interesting thing about Sid is that he did not really do much to shape Punk music, yet he remains one of its most enduring images. Sid really had the fashion image down, but he only actually plays on two songs on Never Mind the Bollocks. Sid is a classic example of style over substance. I was a sucker for his image. At age 15, one of the first stencils I ever made was Sid with the spiky hair, lock chain, and snarled lip Billy Idol copied. I guess the press really helped blow his image out of proportion when he allegedly killed his girlfriend and then overdosed. I look at Sid as less cool and more tragic these days, but he still sold more tee shirts than anyone else in Punk Rock. Sprite was wrong...image is everything!"
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