The Sex Pistols: The Stolper-Wilson Collection

The Sex Pistols: The Stolper-Wilson Collection

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Sid Vicious | Mongol Baby, handwritten song lyrics

Lot Closed

October 21, 01:21 PM GMT

Estimate

800 - 1,200 GBP

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Sid Vicious

Mongol Baby, autograph manuscript song lyrics


two lines neatly written in blue ballpoint, on lined paper, 1 page (176 x 135mm.), neatly repaired at fold


EARLY LYRICS BY SID VICIOUS. Vicious was a member of a band with the unlikely name (suggested by Johnny Rotten) of The Flowers of Romance before he joined the Sex Pistols. Rehearsals took place in Joe Strummer's Shepherd's Bush squat and mostly comprised Ramones covers, but they also penned their own songs, mostly in extravagantly bad taste. The Flowers of Romance never performed in front of an audience, let alone in a recording studio, but the line-up included Viv Albertine and Palmolive (The Slits) and Keith Levene (The Clash, PiL).

Viv Albertine; purchased from Bonhams Chelsea, 15 May 1997, lot 350

Exhibited: Hospital 2004, London; Urbis, Manchester 2005

Satellite p. 110