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With Peter Doherty

Mary Anne Hobbs has an in-depth chat with solo artist and Libertines co-frontman Peter Doherty.

Mary Anne is joined for an in-depth chat by solo artist and Libertines co-frontman Peter Doherty.

At the age of 16, Peter won a poetry competition and embarked on a tour of Russia. Two years later, he formed The Libertines and released three successful studio albums (Up the Bracket, The Libertines, Anthems for Doomed Youth).

In 2014, after a four year hiatus and a short side career with Babyshambles, Peter and the band returned, playing gigs at Glastonbury festival, Reading & Leeds, and a series of smaller, more intimate shows around London.

This year, Peter embarks on a solo career - he released his first single,'The World Is Our Playground' for Record Store Day 2016 and will be on tour with his new set until November, 2016.

In part one of this interview, Mary Anne talks to Peter about his childhood, school, his love of poetry, and how it feels to be writing music twenty years after he first began...

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Sat 21 May 2016 07:00
91热爆 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Talk Talk

    Life's What You Make It

    • Parlophone.

  • The Kills

    Heart Of A Dog

    • Domino.

  • The Easybeats

    Friday On My Mind

    • Polystar.

  • Field Music

    I'm Glad

    • Memphis Industries.

  • Teenage Fanclub

    Star Sign

    • Creation Records.

  • Laurie Anderson

    The Mother Meditation

  • Ben Lukas Boysen

    Nocturne 4

    • Erased Tapes.

  • John Holt

    Ali Baba

    • Trojan Records.

  • De La Soul

    Say No Go

    • Big Life.

  • Underworld

    If Rah

    • UNDERWORLDLIVE.COM.

  • Fleet Foxes

    Mykonos

  • Minor Victories

    Scattered Ashes (Song For Richard)

    • PIAS.

  • Bobby Womack

    Across 110Th. Street

    • EMI.

  • Amy Winehouse

    Back To Black

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Island.

  • Neil Young & Crazy Horse

    Like A Hurricane

    • REPRISE.

  • Saul Williams

    Think Like They Book Say

    • Fader Label/Caroline International.

  • Babyshambles

    Albion

    • CD SINGLE.

  • Yak

    Harbour The Feeling

    • Octopus Electrical.

  • The Pretty Things

    Don't Bring Me Down

    • Snapper.

  • Laurel

    San Francisco

  • Kae Tempest

    Bad Place For A Good Time

    • Big Dada.

  • Syd Barrett

    Baby Lemonade

  • Howlin鈥� Wolf

    Smokestack Lightnin'

    • THE HIT LABEL LTD.

  • The Specials

    Rat Race

    • EMI.

  • Laura Gibson

    Not Harmless

    • City Slang.

  • Peter Doherty: Childhood, School, Poetry

    • The Libertines

      Don't Look Back Into The Sun

      • Rough trade records.

  • Bob Dylan

    I Want You

    • Columbia.

  • The Duke Spirit & Mark Lanegan

    Wounded Wing

    • Ex Voto Records.

  • Al Barry & The Cimarons

    Morning Sun

    • Trojan.

  • The Spencer Davis Group

    Keep On Running

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • Global Television.

  • The Stone Roses

    All For One

    • Virgin EMI.

  • Peter Doherty: English Literature and The Libertines

    • The Libertines

      Music When The Lights Go Out

  • Edwin Starr

    War

    • Hitsville USA (CD 4).
    • Motown.
    • 8.

  • Mutual Benefit

    Lost Dreamers

    • Transgressive Records.

  • The Go鈥怋etweens

    Casanova's Last Words (Janice Long session 09,04.86)

  • Sunriser

    • Mark Pritchard

      Give It Your Choir

  • Elastica

    Waking Up

    • DECEPTIVE RECORDS.

  • Four Tops

    Bernadette

    • Motown.

  • Charles Bradley

    Ain't It A Sin

    • Dunham Records / Daptone Records.

  • Peter Doherty: Happiness and The Future

    • Babyshambles

      Delivery

      • CD SINGLE.
      • Parlophone.

  • Richard Ashcroft

    Hold On

    • Righteous Phonographic Association /Cooking Vinyl Records.

  • Plaid

    'The Clock'

  • The Dramatics

    Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get

    • The Best Of.
    • Stax.
    • 10.

Broadcast

  • Sat 21 May 2016 07:00
    91热爆 Radio 6 Music