2023-12-02 23:15:43
No less than a dozen books are circulating explaining the life, miracles and disasters of Pete Doherty. Some are focused on the career of The Libertines and others on that of Babyshambles. There are them in English, French and Italian. There are his personal diaries, the biography of his running partner Carl Barât and even a book signed by his mother Jacqueline Doherty. And then, thousands of articles split 40/60 between music and sensational press. The world did not need another book about Pete Doherty, but the pandemic and the persistence of journalist Simon Spence (biographer of Happy Mondays, Stone Roses and Depeche Mode, among others) would make his first autobiography a reality.
A promising kid (Alianza Editorial, translated by Ana Pérez Galván) is not a book written by Pete Doherty. That would be too much. Bored during confinement, the singer agreed to interview Spence and after 60 hours of conversations and quite a few more organizing the material, a volume would take shape that is not literary of the slightest interest – they are only well-edited transcriptions of those conversations – but which, On the contrary, it provides something that no other book about Pete Doherty has been able to offer: the reason for everything he has done and undone. To date we only knew the facts. Now we can discover what was going through his crazy head on the hundreds and hundreds of times he ended up screwing her.
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