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Article: A year of living dangerously ; Pete Doherty's year is ending in a frenzy of lurid headlines. Can the lost boy of rock keep it together? He talks to NICK HASTED
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 15, 2006
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Pete Doherty began the last month of 2006 the way he had spent
the previous 11, as if a tabloid editor was scripting his every
move. Somewhere in the small hours of Sunday 3 December, at a party
attended by Doherty in an east London flat, the actor Mark Blanco
fell to his death. Later that night, Doherty fled a wrecked hotel
room. That Monday, he was fined [pound]770 in court for possession
of various drugs, and his band Babyshambles released their first EMI
record, The Blinding, and opened a postponed UK tour with a
barnstorming show at Newcastle Academy.
On the Tuesday following, news of Blanco's death hit the front
pages (Doherty 's blamelessness was buried paragraphs down). That ...