It doesn’t take much to look at the music industry and see a scandal somewhere; it wouldn’t really be the music industry if there wasn’t. This week, the BTC ladies look at two of these sordid tales, and hopefully pose a warning to those looking to get famous: DON’T!
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Research links here!:
Rolling Stone – “Flashback: Nancy Spungen Found Dead at Chelsea Hotel”
Biography – “Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen: Their Turbulent and Tragic Love Story”
Independent – “Sid Vicious is still punk’s biggest mystery, 40 years after his death”
Daily Mail – “Will touching letter from Sid Vicious finally end riddle of who killed Nancy Spungen? Her mother believes she ‘wanted to die’ after receiving not from Sex Pistol before his overdose death”
The Guardian – “Sid Vicious dies of drug overdose”
ATI – “The Short, Tragic Romance Of Sid Vicious And Nancy Spungen”
Ranker – “After Decades Of Evidence, Did Sid Vicious Really Murder Nancy Spungen?”
Rolling Stone – “When the Voices Took Over”
UCR: Classic Rock & Culture – “30 Years Ago: Legendary Drummer Jim Gordon Murders His Mother”
Murderpedia – “James Beck Gordon”
Billboard – “Derek and the Dominos’ Jim Gordon, Jailed for Killing His Mom, Denied Parole for Fear ‘He’d Hurt Somebody Else'”
The Washington Post – “Bang the Drum Slowly”
Medium – “The Forgotten Drummer Story”
