A Likely Lad

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A synopsis of the book promises “Doherty’s version of the story – the genuine man behind the fame and infamy.

The book is, essentially, a lightly edited transcript of many hours of rambling interviews, and reads like it. the time Doherty ran into Iggy Pop at Coachella and was devastated to find he was jogging (“he was drinking through a straw from a bottle of water. But when the book arrived it was all ‘I’, ‘I’, ‘I’,” revealed the former rockstar about the memoir’s narrative. 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. Thrown out of that band for drug consumption he founded Babyshambles, who continued on the success that the Libs should have had without him, and then on into solo work, an unsuccessful acting career, back into the Libertines, and eventual sobriety living the quiet life in Normandy.But I know that when you choose your poison, you have to understand what you're getting yourself in for. At the end of the day though, you're not going to get a thorough, non-biased review out of me because I love Peter, and The Libertines, and Babyshambles.

Doherty comes across as a loveable rogue at heart, who just made the mistake of staring too deeply into the void for too long, only for the void to then hold him in its death-grip for nearly two decades. I’m hard pushed to think of another musician who managed to be so prolific with such a sustained drug problem. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Hope he'll continue writing and playing and drawing and doing all sorts of art for many years to come.I was so excited to discover that Peter had finally written an autobiography, disappointed that I didn't manage to score a signed copy (although I have plenty of other signed bits), and further disappointed that it's ghost written.