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Babyshambles - Shotter’s Nation
His drug addictions, constant arrests and on-off relationship with Kate Moss have made him tabloid fodder, but Pete Doherty can still mine nuggets from debauchery. On his latest Babyshambles album, the troubled genius sings about the “dirty road to fame” on the jazzy “There She Goes,” about songwriting being a game he’s good “at cheating at” on the Blondie-like “You Talk” and about being “fucked, forlorn, frozen” on the raucous “Delivery,” which crosses The Kinks with The Spencer Davis Group’s “I’m a Man.”
