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NANCY SPUNGEN
1958-1978 |
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_________________________________________________________________________ Quotes _____________________________________________________________________________________________  Jerry Nolan(1946-1992/ ex-New York Doll/ Heartbreakers) "I used to hang out a lot with Nancy in New York, but I basically used her. She had money for drugs, and I didn't. There was a wonderful review she did of the Heartbreakers in New York Rocker. That girl could write. She was smart, had an unusually high IQ, I mean schoolwise and streetwise. She was a stripper and a prostitute and very much in love with me. I mean, followed me everywhere, told everybody stories about us that were all lies. Pertaining to sex, which we never had, trying to convince them that I was her boyfriend. Then when I confronted her, she would deny saying them. (In London) we made friends, but I made it clear to her that it was not going to be anything more than that. I said: "Look, you got to stop telling people that you're my girlfriend." So she said: "I'm sorry and OK." "(In New York) Sid and Nancy got jumped, both of them. They almost got killed. So I got them on my program. ... (They) were so sick, and it took hours to get them on, to get them medicated." ___________________________________________________________________________ Pamela Rooke (1955-/ aka Jordan) "Everybody wanted to be with Sid, but unfortunately he came with Nancy. She was unbelievably thick-skinned, one of the most unlikable people I've met. Everybody could see through her -except Sid." ___________________________________________________________________________ NME 17.12.1977 Vicious attempted to throw himself out of the third storey window, an attempted suicide that would have succeeded had not his girlfriend been able to grab Sid's belt...and drag him back inside...Once inside, Vicious, in yet another fit, grabbed Spungen's blonde hair and drove her head against the wall relentlessly again and again until he finally stopped just as she was about to loose unconsciousness, blood from her scalp running down the wall...the pair finally collapsed into bed at 5 a.m in the morning. ___________________________________________________________________________ Nancy "I could haven been a ward of the state. I had like a lotta problems. I was just real different from everybody else. I was a lot smarter than them. So I just started to really rebel against my parents, I hated them a lot. They got real worried and sent me to a shrink. They just couldn't handle it, I hated them so badly. I just couldn't stand them. My parents didn't like me at all. They just weren't into what I was into. So I just came to New York like all the time. Then I got a job as a dancer. I was a professional dancer for about a year when I first moved to New York. Then I met a lot of people through other people. A lot of my really good friends are musicians who are in the top bands right now in New York. It's just that ever since I've gone out with guys, I've gone out with musicians. I don't know, my life was going so slow for a while and then suddenly, it started to go so fast... The most exciting things started to happen in 1975. But I wasn't really concentrating on the punk scene. I was concentrating on big rock & roll stars, like Ron Wood, Mick Jagger - I know him, but I never fucked him. I was with Keith Richards. I toured around with Aerosmith for a while. One of the first nights I was with them was in Washington, D.C. We drove out there in the limousine. I was sitting in the backseat with Tom Hamilton on one side of me and Brad Whitford on the other. I had one hand on one prick and one hand on the other... I had a good time, and I got treated nice, you know? It was the fun of it. It was exciting. I'm friends with just about everybody. I know everybody. A lot of my really good friends are in the top bands. Musicians - a lot of them are really nice, you know? But sometimes they are really terrible." "(The New York Dolls) were the first band that I was hanging out with all the time. I slept with David Johansen, I slept with Johnny Thunders, I slept with Syl Sylvain, I slept with Jerry Nolan- everybody but Arthur Kane." "I slept in the same bed as John for two nights and he said to me 'You want it but you're not going to get it'. Don't you think it means that he just wanted to get into my pants? " ___________________________________________________________________________ Jayne County "She was a groupie around the rock scene...She'd sleep with anyone who was in a band. Nobody liked her in New York, and they hated her in London because of the way she latched onto Sid. She had a very childish quality; you felt sorry for her, but you could tell she was trouble. a 'must to avoid'." ___________________________________________________________________________ .jpg) Richard
Hell(1949- / ex-Television/ Heartbreakers/ Voidoids) "I knew Nancy in New York. Right before she went to England. I went out with her for a few months. She was a fairly typical suburban girl who'd never fit in and who worshipped rock stars (I remember the Bad Company posters in her apartment). She had left school as soon as she could to come to the big city. She had an exceptionally large drive to be where the action was. She claimed this ridiculously high IQ score. It was her way of trying to distinguish herself from the crowd of other girls very much like her that hung out at CBGB's and Max's Kansas City. It was how she made herself feel special to herself. (In a way, you'd have to be especially dumb to believe such a claim despite all the evidence to the contrary. ) Like many girls of the period, she made money go-go dancing naked in Times Square sex bars." ___________________________________________________________________________ Bob Gruen (1946- / rock photographer) "I told (Sid) about the time in New York when my friend Dave, Nancy, and I were driving around. And Nancy was describing the whorehouse she worked in. It was this uptown brothel where they had theme rooms and they had various girls - little girls, teachers, nurses... Nancy was in the S&M room. She would wear black leather garters and beat German bankers for money. They would pay her a lot of money and she would whip them and make them crawl around and suck on her boots." (Nancy would have been seventeen at this time) ___________________________________________________________________________ Philippe Marcade (called Felipe in "And I Don't Want To Live This Life) "Some girl walked up to me at Mother's, and I was wearing one of those Indian scarves, and she said: "Wow, that's just like Keith Richards!" She took my scarf and put it around her neck. After a while I was asking for it back, and then she introduced herself. She told me: "I have some dope, but I don't really know how to shoot up, so if you shoot me up, I'll turn you on." So we went to her house on Twenty-third Street, and it turned out that she only had like a half a dime bag. There was no way I was gonna get high on that, so I said: "No point in me doing it." But I did shoot her up, and that's how I became friends with Nancy Spungen." "Nancy was always telling me how she was in love with Jerry Nolan. One night she called me up in tears and said: "Philippe, I just slashed my wrist, I'm gonna die, I just called to say good-bye." I ran over there, and I'm like completely out of breath once I got there, and there was no blood, there's no cut, there's nothing. She's got a Band-Aid on. I said: "You fuck! You had me so worried I ran here! You didn't slash your wrist!" She goes: "Yes I did." I said: "Let me see under the bandage." Like no, she didn't want to, so after going back and forth for a while I grabbed her hand and I just pulled off the Band-Aid. What a gash. It was like, oohh, oooh holy shit man, this is really bad. It was a huge fucking cut. It didn't hit an artery by luck. I couldn't believe she did that to herself. Right after that, she called me and she was crying her head off. She said: "Ain't no fucking guy wanna go out with me, no fucking guy..." I told her: "Listen, no fucking guy will go out with you because you're a junkie and it's kinda gross, you know, especially on a girl. What you should do is clean up your act, like maybe go for a vacation. Don't stay here, it's too easy to cop." She said: "I don't wanna go anywhere, don't know where to go." I said: "Go to England. They have all this great shit happening over there. I mean, you speak English, so you'll be fine." ___________________________________________________________________________ Sid Vicious (1957-1979) "I've been doing every-fuckin'-thing they reckon she turned me onto two years before I met her." ___________________________________________________________________________ _small.jpg) Sabel Starr(1958-2009/ underage rock groupie) "When I started dating Richard Hell, I would stay with Nancy . She was a wannabe Sable, everybody hated her, she was so obnoxious, but I didn't care, I had a place to stay. I tolerated her and even kind of liked her. She said she was going to London to get herself a Sex Pistol." ___________________________________________________________________________ Chrissie Hynde (1951- /singer of the Pretenders) "...as soon as (Sid) realised how much everyone hated Nancy, man, he stuck to her like a stamp to a letter. That's why he was called 'Sid': he hated the name Sid, so everyone called him Sid. That's what that whole scene was about. But when he got fucked up, he got very violent actually. He was shooting speed before he met Nancy, and when she got him into dope it was a very easy switch to make; then it was all over for him. He'd never been with a woman before, where she had that kind of control over him. They were in love, I guess." ___________________________________________________________________________ Gary Moore (excerpt from Phil Lynott biography) "Phil was paranoid that he might be getting left behind by all the latest crazes and stuff, so when punk came along he befriended Steve Jones and Paul Cook as a way of staying in touch. They were always round his house in Cricklewood (Anson Road, NW2), as were all sorts of strange characters from the punk scene. You'd go round there and the place would be heaving. There'd be Geldof in one corner, Bebe Buell lying on the floor somewhere, Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen sitting in the other corner... you know that famous photo of Sid and Nancy in the toilet? That was taken at Phil's house. Phil used to say, 'That fucking Sid, he comes round here shooting up, drops the needle on the floor, picks it up and sticks it straight back in his arm... it's fucking terrible!' But Phil didn't have the heart to chuck people out. His was an open house, 24 hours a day." ___________________________________________________________________________ John Lydon (1956- /formerly Johnny Rotten, singer of the Sex Pistols and PIL) (What was Nancy Spungen really like?) "Ah...that's one even the most wildly straying from the truth movies and books never failed to get right. A very bad piece of work. Spiteful, spoiled, selfish - a problem many semi-wealthy middle class American families suffer from. When I read the mothers book on Nancy , I was appalled. They got her a psychiatrist at age 4! Go figure why this girl grew up the way she did." ___________________________________________________________________________ Friend from Nancy's Philadelphia days "It's such a waste. She was so smart and read so many books. She could have been anything she wanted." ___________________________________________________________________________ Deborah Spungen (1937- /Nancy's mother) "There was a violent episode four days before she died. She said he'd been hitting her. I spent the next days worrying. And then she didn't call. And never called again." (Viewing her daughter at the mortuary) "The pain was missing from her face. She had no more pain. Without it, she almost looked like a different person. She wasn't angry anymore." _____________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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