Sid and Nancy were still a big part of the public lexicon when I was a teenager and obviously still are - a pair of star crossed lovers, fraught with poor parenting, mental illness, addiction, abuse, murder, and suicide.

I read And I Don’t Want to Live this Life by Deborah Spungen in the early 90’s and DS’s and her take was so entirely blameless that it didn’t seem at all possible, if you know what I mean. After I became a parent, I revisited the biography and it struck me as two young adults, in over their heads with a colicky baby that when the pediatrician suggested a specific RX and it seemed to work, it probably seemed like a lifeline. As an adult, I view it as lazy - lazy on the doctor’s part, and on the parents’. But considering that doctors prescribed smoking cigarettes from the 1930’s to 1950’s, well, I guess we can’t really expect better. As a parent of an almost 20 year old, the life Nancy lived distresses me.

When I saw this book on NetGalley, I was curious to see how the ultimate fates of Nancy and Sid would be addressed in a new book. While there isn’t anything brand new here, the author does a good job of bringing the story into the 21st century - humanizing both, laying out all the known facts, theories, and presenting suspects.

No matter how one looks at it, the stories of Sid and Nancy, individually and together, are tragedies.

I found Room 100: Sid, Nancy, and the Night Punk Rock Died a worthwhile read and would recommend to fans, and those interested.



Thank you to Backbeat and NetGalley for the DRC

I received a free copy of, Room 100, by Jesse P. Pollack, from the publisher and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, were in love, and rock and rollers, unfortunately, Nancy was murdered, by Sid. This was a sad read, so much talent thrown away, by drugs.

A huge thank you to the publisher who gave me an advanced e-copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I’d always thought that Sid and Nancy died together, in a suicide pact. Not only did I learn that wasn’t at all what happened, but I learned so much more – about them and about the whole punk rock scene of the seventies.

Many rumors and theories of what happened the night Nancy Spungen died have circulated over the decades. In interviewing those who knew the couple, studying the police records of both deaths, and developing a timeline of the night in question, Jesse P. Pollack shows us which theories *could* be true, and which could not. The world may never know for sure who stabbed Nancy, but what we do know is that both Sid and Nancy were doomed long before they met, thanks to their respective mothers.

This is a must-read for any punk rock fan, and, really, anyone who’s interested in music history.

Jesse P. Pollack does a fantastic job in writing this type of book, I thought this worked as a way of showing the tragic story of Sid and Nancy. The overall research was there and worked with the interviews and true crime element.

4 stars

I love anything and everything Sid and Nancy. This is a great addition to their story. There is a lot of interesting and new (to me) things within these pages. The writing was done well, and I enjoyed a lot of the interviews.