Is There Something Else Giving Me the Chills?

"'There was a lot of hope at that time,' says Colicchio. 'The music was catching on, bands like Talking Heads were breaking out. A lot of us were thinking, Hey, we may not have to get regular jobs. A lot of it hinged on Sid. He seemed to be the last one carrying the torch. When he died, we all felt like it was over. A couple of bands didn’t even want to gig. What was shunned was now persecuted. It was almost as if the war was over and we’d lost.'"

Karen Schoemer in New York looks back thirty years to the beginning of the end for Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen.