Pop Culture References of Wizard101: Marleybone – Simon Ritchie

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We all know that Zeke’s quests are puns on the names of (mainly) British pop/rock groups. Did you know that Marleybone also features some musical pop culture references?

Pop Culture References of Wizard101

Simon Ritchie – John Simon Ritchie
AKA punk rocker Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols.
http://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Simon_Ritchie#ixzz7YAunGCPz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Vicious
https://youtu.be/RvMxqcgBhWQ

Simon Ritchie

Simon Ritchie is the “Shoe Maker” in Marleybone. He is located in Regent’s Square, inside Foxhound Footware, on the southeast side of Market Square.

John Simon Ritchie (10 May 1957 – 2 February 1979) widely known as Sid Vicious, was an English musician, best known as the bassist for the punk rock band Sex Pistols. Despite dying in 1979 at age 21, he remains an icon of the punk subculture; one of his friends noted that he embodied “everything in punk that was dark, decadent and nihilistic.”

Sid Vicious from the Sex Pistols – Winterland – 14 January 1978 – this was the final show of the original Sex Pistols first and only US tour and the last time that Sid would have been on stage.

“God Save the Queen” was released during the Queen’s Silver Jubilee and immediately banned by the BBC. Just as quickly, it became a monster hit, even though there are rumors that the song was kept from the No. 1 spot by industry insiders who didn’t want to fuel the controversy further. Decades later, “God Save the Queen” remains one of the most incendiary and powerful records of all time.

This is the forty-sixth article chronicling the #W101PopCulture references starting in Wizard City and the third Marleybone article. The current list of all the (known) Marleybone references are located here.

Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.

Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages

Simon Ritchie image is from Wizard101, and is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.

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