Re: OT: Pete Doherty Injects Unconcious Female Fan
Date: April 29, 2006 02:35
Hound Dog Wrote:
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> What's the big deal with this guy, I don't know
> any of his music. He is talked about like he is
> the biggest rock star in the world.
Actually, I don't think he IS talked about as being one of the "biggest rock stars" in the world.
He's very well known over here in the UK, but I'd bet that a vast majority actually know anything about him musically. To most, he's just "that junkie who dates Kate Moss" He was in a band called The Libertines who, to me, were the most exciting new band of 2002. They're debut LP, Up The Bracket showcased Doherty as the brilliant lyricist he then was. However, and to sum things up with a lyric from one of they’re signature tunes, "he pissed it all up the wall", got heavily into heroin and crack, robbed his band mates flat and went to prison. That was it. There was no going back. Despite the band getting back together and releasing a second, self-titled album and having their biggest chart hit with Can't Stand Me Now, Doherty was too dependant on drugs and booted out of the band. He formed his second and current group, Babyshambles towards to towards the end up his reign as a Libertine and despite initial promise, they fizzled out after a crap debut album and gig cancellation after gig cancellation. Us who know what brilliance he is capable of, will always hope that one day he'll pull himself together, but seriously, as pretty much summed it up yourself, who gives a fu*k? This latest episode will be the final nail in his coffin for all but a few. Even the diehard believers in the Doherty cause are loosing faith and who can blame them? What a waster indeed.