12/10 On This Day in Rock History

It was this fateful day in 1978 the Sid Vicious called to front desk of the Chelsea Hotel to say Nancy Spungen had been stabbed. Sid and Nancy were staying in room #100 of the historic New York Hotel when the incident happened but I won’t go into the details of it here. First of all, the story has been told and retold, if you wanna know the gory details look it up Wikipedia. Second, I don’t think we need to discuss and speculate about the tragic death of this lost girl, she died and so did Sid. Anyway, an ambulance arrives with police in tow and Sid Vicious is arrested for her murder, though claims he didn’t do it. During a four day spell at Rikers jail he will attempt suicide twice. Hearing the news, Nils Stevenson wrote in his diary ‘Sid’s gone all the way. He’s been charged with murdering Nancy at the Chelsea Hotel. I feel creepy.’

Goth-Punk Dave Vanian

This day also marks the birth of Dave Vanian (born David Letts) of The Damned in 1956 and Bob Mould from Husker Dü four years later  in 1960. In 1981 Black Flag released an encore rendition of Punk standard ‘Louie Louie’: