His love of hard partying and even harder drugs left fans fearing he might never reach 30. Now, more than a decade on, Pete Doherty looks happier than ever - though Libertines devotees might have to do a double take.
The 42-year-old rocker's transformation was on full show this week as he was pictured out and about sporting a grey beard and moustache.
Doherty looks a world away from his days as a young indie hellraiser where - alongside his supermodel ex-girlfriend Kate Moss - he embodied the ultra-skinny 'heroic chic' style of the Noughties.
Where he would once while away the night in a dingy south London squat, these days the singer prefers a quieter lifestyle - enjoying an idyllic rural existence in the French countryside with his
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