Pete Doherty

[Sunshine&clouds]

Yes he is highly intelligent and was educated well if I’m right. I think he plays the lost boy routine very well but there’s some very dark stories surrounding him. I’m not sure if it’s true but I heard he used to turn young fans of his onto heroin back at his afterparties. So irresponsible and the actions of a scumbag. Does anyone remember when he lived in Paris with Macaulay Culkin?

Poor Macaulay Culkin also had to deal with Trump in Home Alone 2.

 

[Ianbeale]

A 17 year old, Pete being interviewed by MTV in the queue for Be Here Now by Oasis. Clean-cut, bright and witty, where did it all go wrong? :/

 

[Foxvint]

Have just watched the Louis Thereoux again. Striking that he talks about Katia wanting him to get clean but not him wanting to be clean. You have to want it for you. His eyes have such sadness. I always assumed he was a fat and happy troubadour now. Living in France, singing for his supper, an occasional drink maybe, over the addictions, but that doesn't seem the case. He seems haunted and he he hasn't done the work. I wish after writing those songs that are a soundtrack to so many of our lives he was at peace and able to live off them. But really doesn't seem so. I hope anyone demonising addiction from their ivory towers has thrown away their Stones records, their Hendrix records, their Doors records, their Pouges records, their Nirvana records, their Amy records. There's so much more to it all than a Mr Mackey drugs are bad m'kay soundbite. Not a dig at any posters on here btw. Just societal attitudes. There but for the grace of God go I is a good and humbling rule of thumb.

 

[Beverley Macker]

How did he go from all that sordid, low life squalor to the ‘glamour’ of dating Kate Moss?

Kate Moss was fascinated by seediness, until she fucked off back to her suite at Claridges come the end of the night.

 

[Lilylate]

They definitely have fans but were never huge and not popular enough for their albums and singles to top the charts. Come on, let’s be realistic. His inevitable early death will be met with a collective shrug by most of the general public.

Are you joking?! They make numerous lists of top indie bands ever, on a regular basis. Still doing the festival rounds and still have a huge fanbase, mainly because their albums and music are well written and performed. Have you ever seen them live?
I think you’ll find when either Pete or Carl pass away, there’ll be plenty of people who do more than shrug.
Whether people like Pete or not, The Lib’s success as a band speaks for itself!

 

[Discombobby]

Finally maybe Justice for Mark Blanco. The whole Mark Blanco story is back again in a doc next Monday.. I hope to god they find either "headlock", Paul Ro or both guilty of at least manslaughter. I saw Mark that night at the pub, and no way on earth was he suicidal. He was excitable and maybe a bit drunk. The policeman who investigated it was not interested in Mark, only in Pete. He interviewed me mistaking me for one of the witnesses at the flat. God knows why, I've never met Pete or Paul, nor would I want to. The whole case sounds so corrupt.

 

[maytoseptember]

I feel sorry for her. Like so many women who’ve bagged the ultimate prize and married the rock star they’ve mooned after for years, it’s come at a really big price. She’s got him and got the baby but he’s sick, old before his time and still in active addiction. Now she has two people to care for.

 

[Beverley Macker]

His other 2 kids didn’t inspire him to get clean so I doubt the 3rd will.
Who the fuck would have a kid with that mess? Poor little girl.

 

[RedMagnolia]

He was involved (allegedly) in the death of Mark Blanco at a party. Mark 'fell' from a balcony. Doherty confessed to pushing him then retracted his confession. He's also known for leaving people who are heavily under the influence of drugs , usually young vulnerable women, who have later been found dead. He appears to be a deadbeat dad to his children - but perhaps keeps his super dad status private.

But his mother loves him and wrote a book about him.

 

[PeteM]

It really is!! I do think he’s very talented and clever. It’s a shame he didn’t get clean like Russell Brand did and re invent himself...he could’ve been so much more successful. wonder if he still does heroin. Know he got caught with coke about 2 years ago


Probably would

Russell Brand is not someone to aspire to considering that he's a serial rapist.

 

[TrolleyParton]

I have every sympathy for Pete or anyone in the grip of that kind of addiction because it's almost impossible to turn it around and it's desperate and nobody wants to live that way. I see people every day through my work whose lives are destroyed by these addictions and it's heartbreaking. But I just cannot get past the fact that he has done some incredibly fucking vile things to innocent people. Most addicts will cause pain and heartbreak to their loved ones but it's not intentional, it's incidental, it's a side effect of the addiction. His shit is on another level though, I just think he's not a good person and he probably would be a cunt even if he wasn't an addict.

 

[Dizzy]

Watched the Mark Blanco documentary and my take aways are: Johnny Headlock is responsible for his death. Roundhill is a really scummy person. Pete Doherty panicked and ran when he realised what had happened but wasn't involved in Mark’s death. All 3 know exactly what happened that night. The Met Police are shit.

 

[Peterboroughmum]

Liams excuse for not being a part of Mollys life was pitiful. He didn’t get on with Lisa. Selfish prick. Imagine having three kids with three different women and them all so close in age. If it were the other way around the woman would get slut shamed so bad.

agree. I remember watching the NME awards years ago and the presenter made a joke that everyone in the room had been with Lisa Moorish. Pure misogyny. Nothing said about all the male rock stars snagging around.

 

[TrolleyParton]

He gives me the proper heebies, always did. I think he's vile. My friend once described the Libertines as "music for people who wear Motorhead t-shirts that they bought in Topman" which is just it in a nutshell. He always looks like he's covered in a thick layer of slime. And I seem to remember him being in the tabloids for injecting a passed-out girl with smack and then giving a kitten a blowback from his crack pipe? Dude is just awful. My heart breaks for Mark Blanco's family, if they guy fell then why did they all just leg it rather than staying and calling for help? He's grim.

 

[Foxvint]

Huge lols at you comparing Pete to the Stones, Hendrix, The Doors etc

No, naming drug influenced music. The enjoyment of it, by me or you, or anyone else, is entirely subjective, but go off.

 

[Lavendergreendillydilly]

Here's what I know of her: Lisa wasn't/isn't a groupie but she liked to be seen with "rock stars". Always wanted to be famous and never made it so became a shadow of famous people ). She was a singer in the late 80s and she did backing vocals on an oasis album in the mid-nineties. That's how she met LG and I was told by someone... Rather very close to the situation... that she slept with him before he even went out with Patsy K but he had no real interest in her. and then once or twice after they were not long married which obviously resulted in a daughter. She had a stab at the indie scene in the early 00s. Went nowhere. She met Pete just from being around people who were around him and god knows what she was thinking. She's good friends with Grimshaw and Alexa Chung and Pixie Geldof and that trendy lot and they actually gave her a lot of support when she had Pete's son. She did have a proper relationship with pete for a time though. There are rumours/thoughts that she got pregnant on purpose to trap Liam even though he was married but I don't know about that. It's just what some of his buddies said around the time they reunited when asked why he had nothing to do with her. Easy to blame the woman, isn't it.

 

[Kelly1822]

Documentary on Monday. Mark blanco mum continuing to find out what happened to her son all those years ago
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My son plunged to death after Pete Doherty party… I'm convinced of a cover-up

WATCHING a video of Pete Doherty singing his controversial track Lost Art of Murder, and joking about ‘suspicious deaths’, Sheila Blanco feels sick to her stomach. The footage was filmed in the Eas…

www.thesun.co.uk

 

[RedMagnolia]

I learnt today that he earns 10k a month - presumably from royalities? He was a bit of a Pied Piper at one time, and also accessible to his fans, unlike similar musicians in history. If you had the money to go to the places he hung out in, the chances are, you'd bump into him. If you were his type (young, pretty, rich and stupid) then you'd probably be chosen to spend the night with him...the thought of snuggling up to that sweaty, malodorous skank makes me feel distinctly unwell.

However I do like 'Music When The Lights Go Out,' a song he wrote, about when you realise you no longer love the person you're with.

 

[RedMagnolia]

What’s happening? How does he look?

He looked spotty and pale and a bit fat. But it was such a sweet story. His next door neighbour, an elderly widow, had been scammed out of her life savings (80K +) by a group of overseas fraudsters pretending to be a well-heeled older man looking for love, Bobby Gentle. Doherty paid off her debts and then she met a lovely older man in real life and is happily married. It showed another side to seedy Pete.

 

[MunHun]

Jesus christ, how can you just turn up to a party with a hat full of cats?!

It must have been a top hat and I can imagine he pirouetted into the room and produced the top hat from behind his back with a flourish and a TaDa and upon seeing the kitties Courtney Love purred like a pussy (if it didn’t happen this way I’m bitterly disappointed)