Mark Blanco fell from the balcony of a flat in 2006 after rowing with people inside, at a party attended by Doherty. In the intervening years, Doherty may well have become more famous for being linked to controversial deaths than for his music. Unsurprisingly, many of his circle are not. And – having just turned 40 – still alive. Yet, astonishingly, he is still writing and performing, making records and addicted to drugs. Photograph: Nicky J Sims/Redfernsīack then, nobody thought Doherty was in it for the long haul.
What became of the likely lads … onstage with Carl in 2001.
With his new band Babyshambles, he wrote a song that summed up everything he did and didn’t believe in: Fuck Forever was perfectly ambiguous, celebrating his obsessions with sex and the transient. His very public addiction had attracted the attention of Newsnight, and attempted interventions from June Brown (who played EastEnders’ Dot Cotton). He had been kicked out of the Libertines, a band hailed as the great literary punk rockers of their day, and was surrounded by creepy acolytes, hard men and beautiful young things (he was going out with Kate Moss). That was in 2005, when Doherty was 25 years old and living the rock’n’roll dream – or nightmare.
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Last time I interviewed him, it was in a hotel room with blood on the walls, a crack pipe on his bedside table and a motorbike in the corner that he kept revving until he fell asleep on it. Pork pie hat aside, you never quite know what to expect from Doherty.
P eter Doherty arrives with a black case containing a mysterious creature called Gladys in one hand and an odd-eyed husky called Zeus in the other, a huge sore on his chin and a pork pie hat.
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