Story of the Sex Pistols’ Sid Vicious and tragic girlfriend Nancy Spungen will be brought to a new audience with Danny Boyle’s six-part series Pistol
Nancy was born to a middle-class family in Philadelphia but went off the rails
By 17 she was part of New York’s punk scene and met Vicious on a trip to the UK
Vicious quit and pair returned to New York but were gripped by heroin addiction
Nancy was found dead in 1978, aged 20, Vicious was charged with murder
He died of a heroin overdose, aged 21, before the case came to court