Alan Parker (author)

Alan G. Parker (born 1965) is a British author of several books and director of several documentary films about musicians and their lives. Parker is best known for his extensive research into the life and death of Sid Vicious, bassist for the English punk band the Sex Pistols. Parker has written three books about Sid Vicious. Although Parker credits himself as Sid Vicious's official biographer, often promoting his friendship with Sid's mother Anne Beverley, Parker admitted to Podcast A Strange Life on 20 May 2018 that he had lied about the fact that Anne Beverley had told Parker personally she administered the fatal dose of heroin to Sid on the night he died in the documentary Final 24 and its episode on Sid Vicious in order to command a higher fee for his story.[1] Since this admission several threads have appeared on online message boards regarding items of Sid Vicious memorabilia and their authenticity that people had purchased from Parker.[2]