A gifted, straight-A student, Pete Doherty's poetry won him a place on a British
Council tour of Russia aged 16, before he met Carl Barat and formed The
Libertines in 1997. Driven by an explosive, rock'n'roll vision and a doomed,
bohemian romanticism, they became darlings of the British indie scene but were
torn apart by Doherty's anarchic lifestyle. After serving two months in prison
for burgling Barat's flat, Doherty teamed up with Wolfman for his first solo hit
For Lovers, a UK Number 7, before forming Babyshambles, getting sacked from The
Libertines and becoming the talk of t...