Pete Doherty

The former Libertines frontman's new book, A Likely Lad, was written by autobiography writer Simon Spence after extensive interviews with Doherty. A Likely Lad ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. “My agent’s words to me were: ‘Just think of the money.’ But we’d already spent the money.” “It’s not a big drugs area here,” he said. But when the book arrived it was all ‘I’, ‘I’, ‘I’. It’s completely shocking.” By clicking ‘Register’ you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Terms of use, Cookie policy and Privacy notice. By clicking ‘Register’ you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Terms of use, Cookie policy and Privacy notice.

The Libertines frontman tells stories about his life and the chaos of the indie music scene in London during the heyday of his career in the early noughties, ...

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The British rocker will publish on June 16 A likely Ladan autobiography in which he talks about his career and his life.He has calmed down and now leads.

“I don’t think there’s anything about Kate in all of this that hasn’t been written before,” he said to Guardian. He also says crack broke them apart. Stopping drugs and discovering local cheese had some deleterious effects on the silhouette of the once thin rocker. “All these circumstances helped to stay clean, even a scoundrel like me.

This week Pete Doherty releases an autobiography that is likely to embarrass Moss, now a model grande dame who had an eye-catching role in last Sunday's ...

He told the Guardian that it ‘was the only thing I could think of to say’. But unable to kick the habit of her bad-boy lover, Moss orchestrated clandestine meetings with him, often organised by her celebrity hair stylist friend James Brown. They also spent Christmas together at Moss’s ten-bedroom cottage in Oxfordshire, where they sang carols. Then I go back to bed at six or seven, then get up again.’ He’s a user in every sense of the word.’ But nine years ago, Doherty says he received a surprise phone call from Moss while he was in Paris. He asked her if she still had the tattoo of his initials. Doherty’s drug-taking has plagued his career, and once led to him pleading guilty in court to seven charges of possession. It was a different vibe than UK rehab – a mix of absolutely loaded trust-fund kids and people trying to avoid federal convictions by doing rehab. He also claims Moss ruined one of his favourite guitars. In the end I did a runner. When Kate found out I hadn’t finished the treatment, she told me point-blank that was it, there was no way we could see each other now. In the book, aptly named A Likely Lad, Doherty tells how he once accidentally set off a panic alarm in Moss’s bedroom at her home in St John’s Wood, North-West London, prompting 12 armed police officers to turn up at the door. ‘I insisted she get on a bus with me,’ writes Doherty. ‘She went everywhere in a limo usually. As well as the bus journeys, there were meet-ups in back rooms of London restaurants.

The singer looks back on his heroin addiction and the day Kate Moss burnt his beloved childhood bear called Pandy ... In 2003, shortly after he realised that he ...

Former Libertines frontman said pair's relationship was 'a running battle'

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. It still rankles – it was the one thing I’d held on to.” Reflecting on the “one final big old kick-off” at the end of their relationship, he said: “Kate desecrated this 1930s Gibson I had, smashed it up.

Pete - who battled drug addiction during their relationship - shared: "There was not really one specific incident that finished the relationship. Our worlds ...