I never met Sid, he was already dead, but I did know his mum Anne Beverley through a mutual friend in the music business. She told me crazy stories about Sid, like the time he came round and urinated on her television while she was watching it. She asked him why and Sid said he was 'combatting radiation'. Sid then crashed through a window and left.
Sid's craziness was down to Anne in many ways. Anne was a hippie who'd messed about a lot in Ibiza in her youth, I think she'd brought Sid up there. She had her own heroin problem. She was generally bad news. Not a good role model that's for sure. I recall Anne and her boyfriend were arrested on some serious drug-dealing charges.
Personally I wouldn't idolise any of the Sex Pistols. Not some of the world's greatest movers and shakers, musically or otherwise. A wholly manufactured band and somewhat tedious, but each to their own I suppose.
The expensive single 'God Save the Queen' single on A&M is not nearly as rare as people think Although it was trashed I can tell you that a large quantity were salvaged by staff out of the skip/dumpster. When A&M UK closed down a friend of mine, who worked there, was given a copy by her manager, as were all the other people she'd worked with. The woman who gave it to my friend had a locker full of them. My friend sold hers some years ago for £3,500 to a Japanese collector. What they are worth now, I have no idea.
Lovely watch though Michel
John S