# 12 handwritten reasons for love: How did Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen meet?

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/12-handwritten-reasons-for-love-how-did-sid-vicious-and-nancy-spungen-meet/
- Published: 2026-10-29T14:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-04T04:58:35+00:00
- Original publisher: Far Out
- Original article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/sid-vicious-nancy-spungen-handwritten-reasons-list/
- Topics: Americas, Entertainment, Health, Medicine, Music, World

## Key points

- Vicious and Spungen met in London’s punk scene.
- Their relationship was marked by drugs and volatility.
- Notes list 12 qualities Vicious admired in Spungen.

## Summary

Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and American Nancy Spungen met in London’s King’s Road punk scene, where Spungen was known for supplying drugs to musicians. Their relationship drew press attention and became associated with drug use and volatile behaviour, but handwritten notes later attributed to Vicious suggest he also admired many qualities in her.

The article says Spungen had initially pursued frontman Johnny Rotten, while her drug connections helped bring her and Vicious together. The pair met around 1976; Spungen was found stabbed in a New York hotel room in October 1978, and Vicious was arrested on suspicion of murder. He died of a drug overdose four months later, aged 21; Spungen was 20.

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