Almost died in 1989 when he contracted chicken pox from his then four-year-old daughter Lauren. He went into a coma and spent months recuperating.
Sid Vicious gained the enmity of The Clash's Mick Jones due to his habit of wearing a Nazi Swastika t-shirt. Jones, who is Jewish, and the rest of The Clash vowed they would never appear on stage with Sex Pistols. Despite this, Jones played guitar on Vicious's solo album "Sid Sings".
The great thing about Sandinista! is you can dance all the way through it.
This is an important fact: People prefer to dance than to fight wars. In these days, when everybody's fighting, mostly for stupid reasons, people forget that. If there's anything we can do, it's to get them dancing again.