Pete Doherty now - drug deaths, EastEnders' Dot Cotton lifeline and Kate Moss truce
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mirror.co.ukPete Doherty was always top of the class. Born in Hexham, Northumberland, his dad John was a major in the Royal Signals and his mum Jacqueline Michels a lance corporal in the Royal Nursing Corps.
An exemplary student, despite moving around the country as a military child, he achieved 7 A*s in his GCSEs, two As at A-Level and went on a poetry tour of Russia with the British Council when he was 16 after winning a competition.
After college, he moved to London to study English Literature at the University of London but quit a year in; got a flat with muso Carl Barat and co-founded The Libertines in 1997.
By 2002, their album Up the Bracket had turned the band into mainstream indie stars, but less than two years later, Pete - who turns 42
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