On October 12th 1978 New York Police discovered the lifeless body of a 20 year-old woman, slumped under the bathroom sink in a hotel room. She was dressed in her underwear and had bled to death from a stab wound. The woman was Nancy Spungen, an ex-prostitute, sometimes stripper, heroin addict, and girlfriend of Sex Pistols' bassist Sid Vicious. In a trial by tabloid newspapers Vicious was pronounced guilty before noon the following day. But the case never had the chance to be brought to trial. Less than six months later in a flat in New York's Greenwich Village, Sid, himself aged only 21, died of a heroin overdose and the case was closed. Alan Parker, rock author and punk expert, has devoted himself discovering “Who killed Nancy?” By interviewing 182 people and re-examining NYPD evidence, he investigates what really happened that night in room 100.
