Pete Doherty has announced that he will publish a memoir, titled ‘A Likely Lad’, this summer. It promises to tell “Doherty’s version of the story” and be “a rock memoir like no other”.
So you can start pretending you don’t want to read that now. Come on, at the very least you must be hoping to finally find out if he really did eat that really big breakfast.Doherty’s “talent as a musician has more often been eclipsed by a Herculean appetite for self-destruction”, the synopsis for the book notes, adding that – as a result – his “is the last of the great rock n roll stories”.“As an icon, he is on par with the early Rolling Stones and Sid Vicious – bad boy and public enemy”, it insists. “To his devoted fans, he is a cult hero, a modern-day Rimbaud.
Musically, there is no doubt he has defined the past 20 years of British rock n roll with his sound, lyrics, lifestyle and aesthetic.
Since The Libertines rose to international fame, Doherty has proved endlessly fascinating”.“In ‘A Likely Lad’”, it goes on, “Doherty explores his darkest moments.
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