Pete Doherty, of The Libertines and The Babyshambles, is superfamous in the UK and elsewhere but couldn't get arrested in America (that should be some small comfort) - IF he could only get a US visa -but he can't because he's been arrested for drugs so many times (apparently he tried to fly to New York to do a gig with Sean Lennon a while ago, but was turned away at JFK).
He is amazing. He's been in two amazing bands and done solo work, as well as acting, painting, drugging... hanging out with Kate Moss and Mac Culkin... a romantic poet in the tradition of Thomas Chatterton or Lord Byron... a bon vivant.... a brat.... a genius.... a tortured genius... a self-destructive tortured genius...
It amuses me he is so well-known in England and essentially entirely unknown in America.
Maybe that will never change, especially if he can never tour here, but Americans should give him a chance...
This was recorded at a club in Slovakia this past summer....
He is amazing. He's been in two amazing bands and done solo work, as well as acting, painting, drugging... hanging out with Kate Moss and Mac Culkin... a romantic poet in the tradition of Thomas Chatterton or Lord Byron... a bon vivant.... a brat.... a genius.... a tortured genius... a self-destructive tortured genius...
It amuses me he is so well-known in England and essentially entirely unknown in America.
Maybe that will never change, especially if he can never tour here, but Americans should give him a chance...
This was recorded at a club in Slovakia this past summer....
This is a great song from the new album...
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