For whatever reason, it took me seventeen years to own the Babyshambles Down in Albion album. When it was released, I heard it on the Internet but never got around to obtaining this beast of a record. By no means am I a Peter Doherty expert, who is the primary singer/songwriter for Babyshambles, and came to be through the band The Libertines. Still, I was interested in how The Libertines or their management conveyed the relationship between Doherty and his creative equal, Carl Barât. If one reads the English music weeklies during the 1990s, a big part of the entertainment was keeping track of Barât and Doherty through their up-and-down relationship. One thing is for sure whenever they were photographed together; it was genuinely erotic. More than Morrissey/Marr or the classic Jagger/Richard. Also, the way they shared a microphone on the stage as they traded off vocals. Some of the music to me sounded like a conversation between them but done in public. I didn’t know if this was an act and, if it was/is, not significant. But it was compelling to see them do what they do and how they make the private into the public.
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