įollowing his rejoining of the band, Doherty sought treatment for his drug addiction. Upon his release, Doherty immediately reunited with Barât and the rest of the band to play a gig in the Tap 'n' Tin pub in Chatham, Kent known among Libertine fans as 'The Freedom Gig'. He was originally sentenced to six months, but his sentence was cut to two months. The two initially fell out over this incident, but made amends whilst Doherty was in prison. In 2003, he was jailed for burgling Barât's flat. However, Doherty's increasing drug problems led to his estrangement from the band. The group achieved critical and commercial success and gained a dedicated cult following, with Doherty, in particular, being praised by fans and critics alike as one of the most promising songwriters to emerge on the British music scene for some time. After leaving university, he moved into a London flat with friend and fellow musician Carl Barât, who had been a classmate of Doherty's older sister at Brunel University.ĭoherty and Barât formed a band called the Libertines in the late 1990s, although it was not until 2002, with the release of their debut album Up the Bracket, that they began to achieve widespread mainstream success. He attended Queen Mary, a college of the University of London, to study English literature, but left the course after his first year. In a clip later available on YouTube, an 18-year-old Doherty can be seen in an interview with MTV, on the day of the release of Oasis' Be Here Now album. Īfter his A-levels, he moved to his grandmother's flat in London – where he said he felt 'destined' to be – and got a job filling graves in Willesden Cemetery, although most of his time was spent reading and writing while sitting on gravestones. At the age of 16, he won a poetry competition and embarked on a tour of Russia organised by the British Council. He achieved 11 GCSEs, 7 of which were A* grades, at Nicholas Chamberlaine Comprehensive School in Bedworth, North Warwickshire, and four passes at A-Level, two at grade A. While living in Dorset, aged 11, Doherty began playing guitar, originally in an attempt to impress a female classmate, Emily Baker. Doherty was the second of the three children.

He grew up at a number of army garrisons across Britain and continental Europe, with his sisters, AmyJo and Emily. His paternal grandfather was an Irish immigrant from Cheekpoint in County Waterford his maternal grandfather, was Jewish, the son of immigrants, Moise Michels and Chana Peress, from France and Russia. His father, Peter John Doherty, was a major in the Royal Signals, while his mother, Jacqueline Michels, was a lance-corporal in Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. Pete Doherty was born in Hexham, Northumberland, to a military family.

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