The Books of Albion: The Collected Writings of Peter Doherty
I desire you would use all your skill to paint your picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughness, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me - Oliver Cromwell 1599-1658
It seems rather fitting to quote from antiquity when introducing Doherty's famous Albion diaries, given he embodies the Romantic age so in poetic spirit, talent and in his splendid failings.
Bound in a tea-stained hardcover, the tattered sheets certainly adhere to Cromwell's explicit request. Candidly laying bare the man, the musician and the tabloid target in all their scrawled glory, with lyrical workings, poetry, IOUs, photos, ruminations on his time in prison and rehab, images of media vilification and worship and the minutiae of his (far from) everyday life.
The juiciest bits, however, seem sure to be the insights into his fraught relationship with Kate Moss. I doubt anyone will not be thrilled to read of her bare arm cast beside him in the hazy morning light.
Format: Book
Motivation: Good with a whiskey in the bath
Keywords: Music
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