Umm, who are Sid and Nancy?

For those of you who are unfamiliar with this story, Nancy Spungen was the girlfriend of Sid Vicious, bassist for the seminal punk band the Sex Pistols. The Sex Pistols were hyped to be outrageous, and often made headlines. So the tumultuous relationship between Sid and Nancy was soon fodder for the tabloids.

Nancy was made out to be a spoiled, self-centered groupie, rebelling against her middle class upbringing with drugs and wild behavior. Sid was portrayed as an untalented pawn while not much of a musician, he had the right look and attitude to fit into the Sex Pistols. Together, they became punk personified angry, unhappy junkies in black leather whose domestic tiffs often escalated into bloody battles.

And the press caught it all, reporting about them as if rubbernecking at the scene of an accident. Deborah Spungen wrote this book for a couple of reasons, and one was to explain her daughters life. After Nancy died, it seemed to be a widespread assumption that she was just a ... more.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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