JOHNNY ON THE SPLIT: “I’m A Free Man!”

Just as we were going to press, pasting up pictures of Messrs. Rotten, Vicious, Jones and Cook, the news broke. The band had broken up in San Francisco, Johnny revealed, in an interview with Rupert Murdoch’s N.Y. Post. To add to the confusion, Sid Vicious O.D.’d on the plane from S.F. to New York—he’d reportedly been given a two-day dose of methadone to last him until he got to London, but had taken it all at once, managing to land himself in a Jamaica, N.Y., hospital.