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Pete Doherty reflects on The Libertines' love of London

Pete Doherty, of The Libertines fame, has revealed that his band's love affair with London is something they really value

The rocker told Mary Anne Hobbs on BBC 6 Music that it was great to feel as though they belonged to a place and it was especially fulfilling to be in the city because they "wanted to be part of a community."

He said: "We used to spend a lot of time walking around and climbed into Embankment gardens a lot, to the point when security... they'd turn a blind eye in the end because we'd always get into the little amphitheatre bit, the little stage, where we'd, y'know, take our guitars."

"We wrote a lot of songs and practise a lot of them early songs; 'You're My Waterloo' and 'Music When The Lights Go Out'. Sort of grand, epic ballads as we thought they were. We'd belt them out to the dawn, with just a couple of pigeons coughing along."

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