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Despite his alarming drug consumption, Doherty is a charming extrovert so obsessed by music that, halfway through the interview, he picks up a guitar and bursts into song. But, no matter how upbeat he attempts to be about Babyshambles, sadness and anger inevitably spill over because, somewhere else in London, The Libertines are busily preparing for the August release of their eponymous second album. Can’t Doherty see The Libertines’ point that he is impossible to work with while he’s addicted? “I don’t see it as relevant because Carl, well it is childish of me to say this and it might seem like backbiting, but last summer for example, I was thrown out of the band for taking drugs right? Carl was bang on everything last summer. He was propping himself up on the back of the tour bus, in a raging mood, and he was doing it all – up his nose, in his ear, up his arse. I don’t want to go to America for 10 months to promote the new album. Carl does. Carl wants to sell a million records. Good luck to him. But I can’t accept that he’s gonna call himself The Libertines and sing my songs. Yeah, we were amazing. But believe me, I’m not the sort of person who’ll take a sub-standard alternative. I’ve chosen this path because it’s me. And this is the first time in three or four years that I’ve listened to me heart, as opposed to listening to my wallet, my gullet, or my vanity

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