Nancy Spungen

format_quote 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.

stars  In Nancy's mother's book "And I Don't Want To Live This Life," Deborah Spungen commented that her and the family hated Nancy's dyed blond hair."
(Who cares - her fans loved it.)

stars  It’s quotes like this that make me think that if Nancy had lived, perhaps she would have been another Sharon Osbourne, someone who understood the lifestyle, but saw through it for what it really was. Perhaps Nancy was just ahead of her time. Perhaps punk rock just wasn’t ready for Nancy Spungen.

stars  Victor Colicchio, another survivor of the ’70s punk scene, describes Spungen this way:

“She was highly intelligent and very aware,” he says. “She could spot
someone conning her a mile away. She had good insight into people. She
was aware of phonies and fakes and users. She did display that wild,
crazed behavior, but it wasn’t her total being."

stars  Nancy Spungen was more than she’s been given credit for, and it is sad that it has taken 30 years for people to start realizing that.

stars  Would people have been more outspoken about the mystery of Nancy’s death if she was more liked and accepted in the scene? Or is the Punk Rock Romeo and Juliet too good of a story to give up? After all, the same people who say Sid didn’t kill Nancy also suspect Courtney Love killed Kurt Cobain, so maybe all of this should be taken with a grain of salt.