Sid Vicious's home is located on Bank Street in New York City. It was here on February 2, 1979, the bass player for the punk-rock band The Sex Pistols, died of a heroin overdose. He was found dead in his bed, following a night of partying. He had been awaiting trial for the murder of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, who had been found with a hunting knife thrust into her stomach in October 1978 at the Chelsea Hotel.