He's a sweet kid, I've met him a few times. He's not the genius everyone makes him out to be. In fact, far from a genius if his new album's anything to go by. He'll go down in history as a Morrissey and Marr or Lennon and McCartney type character. Him and Carl were great for each other. Apart they'll probably be shocking. There's a lot of hypocrisy in the British press about drugs. The people who write the stories are usually off their heads on cocaine anyway.

I think I felt a bit trapped before I met Pete. Have you seen The Lavender Hill Mob? Alec Guinness plays this wonderful, colourful person who locks it all up a…

Pete is incredibly frustrating, yet you can't help but like him. The trouble is, he knows it.

What are you thinking when you see Pete Doherty self-destruct? - He's such an intelligent man. I completely understand, I just understand.

Defending the weeklies, as well as Connell and his collaborators, is the unflagging media critic and campaigner for human rights Debito Arudou, who wrote that …

Regarding Dimebag Darrell, I 'never thought too highly of anyone foolish enough to take on the nickname of a life-destroying dope product and promote such fami…

From a magician's midnight sleeve the radio-singers distribute all their love-songs over the dew-wet lawns.