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Interviewer: Will you ever play with Carl again?
Pete: “(Carl) phoned me last week but he hung up. He texted me to say ‘Sorry, I bottled it. I’ll try later.’ Then I got a letter. It was quite nice. It had a poem in it and some quotes from (jazz trumpeter) Chet Baker. Y"know, I’m proud of him. Over the years he’s changed a lot. He’s got a lot more confident. I’m really proud of him and I love his bones.”
Interviewer: So how do you feel about your new single ‘Don’t look back into the sun’? It seems The Libertines music comes second to the bands scandal at the minute.
Pete: “It’s a beautiful song. When we wrote it me and Carl knew it was a special song and we both fucking love it. I’ve heard him singing it in his sleep.”
Pete Doherty, 2003
““Whatever happened with the heroin and the situations I was in that I knew Carl despised, I always carried on pushing myself, in terms of the music or traveling or different affairs and adventures. I just love life and I enjoyed it all, but there came a point where I had no option but to stop. Your body won’t have it. Alas. And when Carl looked me in the eye and actually believed me when I said I was going to give it a fucking go, it was like a miracle. Everything else was forgotten. This self-absorbed vision, this decadent artistic life, it didn’t mean anything when you’re squatting in that dank, decaying place. And Carl said, ‘Look, I know somewhere you’re still in there, the person I used to know. Come out to play.’””
First Pete’n’Carl Reunion. April 18, 2005.
Pete and Carl hadn’t seen each other since the disintegration of the band after their last gig, nearly a year earlier.
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I showed this set to a friend who knows nothing about the band and she said, “It’s like that scene in Brokeback Mountain where they haven’t seen each other in years and pash by the stairs”.
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