Barat's Home: Dirty Pretty Things
Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 7 July 2006
THE LAST TIME I met Carl Barât he was, by his own admission, in the middle of a deep depression. Carl's relationship with Pete Doherty had made The Libertines a sensation, but after months of fighting with Doherty, being burgled by him and let down by his drug abuse, Carl sacked him from the band.
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