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Ongoing History of New Music 

The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 944: Infamous hotels and hotel rooms

March 4, 2022March 4, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Chris Cornell, Dave Gahan, Dolores O'Riordan, Hotel Rooms, Hotels, Michael Hutchence., Nancy Spungen, Oasis, Richey Edwards, Sid Vicious

In the days before COVID, I was always on the road. If it wasn’t a music conference in Singapore, it

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Ongoing History of New Music 

Ongoing History Daily: The Sid Vicious assassination conspiracy

June 10, 2021June 10, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments CIA, Conspiracy, Nancy Spungen, Punk, Sid Vicious

Think the mob killed JFK? A supporter of QAnon? The COVID vaccine filled with Bill Gates-designed nanobots? Try this one

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Movies Music History 

New Documentary Looks at the Final Days of Sid and Nancy

October 19, 2016October 18, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Documentary, Nancy Spungen, Sex Pistols, Sid Vicious

Did Sid Vicious kill his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, in room 100 of the Chelsea Hotel on that night in 1978?

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Music News
Music News 

Random Music News for Friday, October 14, 2016

October 14, 2016October 13, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Billy Joel, Bob Dylan, Del Fuegos, Desert Trip, Elton John, George Carlin, Grey Poupon, Harvest Picnic, Lemmy, Murder, Nancy Spungen, Sid Vicious, Slash, Straight Edge

Off to Desert Trip Part 2 in the California Desert. This had better be good. And now, the music news.

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Movies Music History 

Sid and Nancy Coming Back to Theatres for 30th Anniversary Release

July 28, 2016 Alan Cross 1 Comment Nancy Spungen, Sid and Nancy, Sid Vicious

Sid and Nancy, Alex Cox dramatization of the relationship between the Sex Pistols’ Sid Vicious (played by Gary Oldman) and

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Recommended Music 

This is Interesting: Trouble Andrew and “Luv Will Tear Us Apart” Starring Sid and Nancy

January 14, 2014January 13, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Joy Division, Nancy Spungen, Sid Vicious, Trouble and Andrew

It’s an animated adventure.  Trouble Andrew‘s EP, Gucci Ghost, will be out sometime this quarter.

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Music History 

The Aesthetics of Punk Courtesy of Sid Vicious

December 26, 2013 Alan Cross 0 Comments Nancy Spungen, Sex Pistols, Sid Vicious

With the 35th anniversary of his OD death approaching on February 2, expect a series of retrospectives on doomed Sex

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