Article: Pete Doherty: sex (check), trouble (check), rock 'n' roll (hell, yeah!).(Interview)

People like Pete Doherty are the reason why generation gaps exist. Having emerged three years ago as the front man for the London-based rock band the Libertines, which he led with his friend Carl Barat, Doherty quickly became the most visible face for a group of British musicians who were raging against the success of easy-listening soft-rock bands like Coldplay, striving to make music that spoke more directly, more urgently, and more viscerally to kids sick of bopping to "Yellow" alongside their parents. Perhaps it was his unbridled energy, his adventures in pharmacology, or simply the hesitant beauty of his songwriting--which borrows as much from the pop melodies of the ...

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