Chapter Two
THE BOOK
Peter, a picture of wounds, like St Sebastian in a leather jacket, spotted me and said: 'How did you get in looking like that? You look a right state.'
The Libertines: Bound Together
Hardcover 288 pages
February 23, 2006
Time Warner
Books
ISBN: 0316732346
In the short time they existed, The Libertines accomplished the impossible: they kick-started the new British music renaissance. They erased the barrier with fans, they inspired thousands, they gave away entire albums of material free on the internet. Yet on the whole the media failed to grasp what the band really stood for, preferring live-fast-die-young-cliches and headlines screaming for Kate Moss to abandon 'Junkie Pete' Doherty.
Award-winning journalist Anthony Thornton and celebrated photographer Roger Sargent witnessed the whole messy story of The Libertines, and have remained on good terms with the two battling creative geniuses of Pete Doherty and Carl Barat.
THE LIBERTINES: BOUND TOGETHER documents their extraordinary highs and lows, and the fallout from the breakup. In words and pictures it traces the singers' unique relationship from their first meeting up to Autumn 2005, revealing the full story for the first time.
This is the definitive representation of the band in words and pictures - a unique, beautifully produced record of the most important British band of this generation.
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