Sid Vicious and the aesthetics of punk rock

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'SID: Superman Is Dead,' an exhibition from Shepard Fairey and Dennis Morris, is a vivid reminder of the radical, transformative nature of the Sex Pistols and their self-destructive bassist Sid Vicious. <br/><br/>The hotel room was destroyed. A television lay shattered on the ground, surrounded by a shredded pile of photographs and Bible pages, soda cans and broken furniture. On the mangled hotel bed, the sheets were coiled up in a corner, still holding the form of the human responsible for this mess. Just down the hall, Billy Idol and guys from the Sex Pistols, Blondie and Adam & the Ants banged out loud and sloppy Stooges covers late into the night.[img]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PopHiss/~4/DRB9jQkPds0[/img]

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