A Likely Lad

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Doherty also reflects on the turbulent relationships with various significant people in his life across the years. OK so it doesn’t go into huge detail about many of his exploits but I quite liked the fact it just gave a full on run through of his life without all the normal neediness or self importance you get from autobiographies.

Carl describes the Libertines as ‘like catching flashes of sunlight between buildings as you race by on a train.

Our team is made up of book lovers who are dedicated to sourcing and providing the best books for kids. Pete Doherty is perhaps best remembered as the drug-addled frontman of seminal British indie-rock band, The Libertines. But I saw heroin ruin the lives of so many people - many of whom you'd never have expected to get mixed up in such things. Unfortunately this book lacks the poetic warmth Doherty is known for speaking in, and forgoes a lot of talk of the relationship between him and Carl in exchange for tedious goings on about drug binges and the like.

By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Hope he'll continue writing and playing and drawing and doing all sorts of art for many years to come. A man who viewed parenting as dropping his children off at a library while he spends the afternoon in a bookmakers. In his foreword he says he “can’t really admit defeat” and, despite a few near misses, he hasn’t had to. It’s a perfectly normal biography all the info is in there but the whole time I’m waiting for the romanticism and fantasy and lyricism with which the same events are described in the Books of Albion etc.As a somewhat lonely “army brat” – born in Northumberland but raised in Belfast, Cyprus, Germany, Dorset and Warwickshire – Doherty read Percy Shelley, Oscar Wilde and George Orwell.