From our special correspondent in Étretat
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In 2002, to meet Peter Doherty, you had to take the Eurostar and make your way to the house of the Libertines, a devilish rock'n'roll lair that the musician shared with Carl Barât, his enemy brother in the group that woke up the British rock scene on the strength of a single album,
Up The Bracket
.
Today, we can meet the former terrible child of English pop in the streets of Étretat, flanked by his two dogs, cap on his head and smiling.
It is in the peaceful village of Seine-Maritime, between two cliffs, that the singer has taken up residence, alongside Katia, whom he married last September.
And it is at the edge of the English Channel that he wrote his new album, the superb
The Fantasy Life of Poetry & Crime
, which comes out this Friday.
A disc whose paternity he shares with a man as discreet as he is whimsical, the Frenchman Frédéric Lo.
The latter still can't believe it, as he welcomes us...
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