[B] After The Libertines: What today’s bands owe Carl and Pete
In November 2002, as albums by Gareth Gates, Sum 41 and Westlife dominated the charts, the debut album by a new British guitar band arrived unheralded on record store shelves. Given downbeat reviews by the British press, it staggered to No 35 in the charts. The following week it limped out, having bothered the charts only briefly, like a scruffy gatecrasher at an exclusive party.
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Dirty, dirty feet from the concert in the grass / I wanted to believe that freedom there could last (Willy Mason)