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The Libertines' Pete Doherty and Carl Barât's legendary east London party flat on sale for £850k

The band held guerrilla gigs in the flat’s front room, and nicknamed the property ‘the Albion Rooms’

Evening Standard

“I tried to commit suicide with a marble sink.” How the media frenzy around the relationship between supermodel Kate Moss and rock star Pete Doherty brought added chaos to The Libertines' already messy career

English indie-rockers The Libertines were always surrounded by drama, but when supermodel Kate Moss entered their lives, things got even wilder, sometimes dangerously so

Louder

‘Am I surprised Pete Doherty is still alive? No, he’s too smart to die’: the Libertines on feuds, friendship – and their unlikely sober reunion

It’s 20 years since they topped the charts – then fought, stagnated and imploded. But now Pete Doherty and Carl Barât are back. Was it easy recording together again? Depends who you ask …

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The Libertines review – raucous return for chaotic indie heroes

Previewing their first new album for nine years to a tiny but thrilled audience, Pete Doherty and Carl Barât’s band continue to stumble around greatness

The Guardian - UK

Stranger in My Own Skin: Pete Doherty documentary reviewed by a mental health and addiction expert

Stranger in My Own Skin is a documentary about the life of musician Pete Doherty, who is as well known for his drug use and spells in prison as he is for forming The Libertines and later Babyshambles. From recreational beginnings, through first realising he had a drug problem, Doherty…

The Conversation

Pete Doherty: his most revealing quotes, as The Libertines rocker is interviewed by Louis Theroux

Once one of indie-rock's most notorious rabble-rousers, Doherty now lives a relatively tranquil existence in Normandy with his wife and daughter

Evening Standard

Peter Doherty: ‘There’s no miracle story to addiction, it’s for life’

In a global exclusive interview with ES Magazine, Peter Doherty talks drug addiction, Russell Brand, murder allegations – and cheese

Evening Standard

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‘It was nuts what we got away with’: remembering the 00s UK indie explosion

As the film Meet Me in the Bathroom relives the glory days of the Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, fans and musicians recall the sweat, swagger and skinny jeans that made the British scene they inspired even wilder

The Guardian - UK

The Libertines review – ageing backstreet squalor and sporting arenas shouldn’t mix

Carl Barât and Pete Doherty produce some strong moments but without their youthful excitement it’s a rickety affair that wasn’t built for a huge venue

The Guardian - UK

Libertines star Pete Doherty's life now is unrecognisable from naughty heyday

Pete Doherty has transformed from his naughty heydays during his peak career in The Libertines - the star turned around his drug addiction and says his new vice is cheese on toast

Daily Mirror

A Likely Lad by Peter Doherty – an appetite for self-destruction

Squalor, Kate Moss, prison, class A drugs… the indie frontman and tabloid fixture’s memoir is lucid, candid and, ultimately, hopeful

The Guardian - UK

The major revelations from Pete Doherty’s tell-all memoir

From the real story of how he got together with Kate Moss to those escort rumours, Likely Lad is a riot

Evening Standard

The Libertines announce London anniversary gig and album for Up The Bracket

The British band are celebrating over two decades of music with a massive gig in London

Evening Standard

Pete Doherty on swapping crack for camembert in France: ‘It’s easier to be clean here – even for a scoundrel’

Twenty years after the Libertines’ narcotics-fuelled heyday, has the singer really put the chaos behind him?

The Guardian - UK

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