Pete Doherty stealing again?
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
Pete Doherty has a list of drug offences longer than my shopping list; but this time he is being accused of stealing song lyrics. Perhaps all those drugs killed his brain cells; preventing any originality?
The track in question, Baddie’s Boogies features on Babyshambles album Shotters Nation. The claim is that some of the lyrics bear a similarity to some penned by punk poet Nick Toczeks.
On the track, Pete sings: “A lousy life for a washed-up wife of a permanently plastered, p****d up b*****d.” But an almost identical lyric is in the song Stiff With A Quiff by Nick’s Eighties punk band, Britanarchists.
Nick has never met Pete, there is no credit for him on the album and he only knew about the lyrical similarity when he heard the released record.
And it’s not just the words that are in question. An ex pal of Babyshambles guitarist Mik Whitnall claims the tune for Baddie’s Boogie was based on one of his.
Hmmm is it a coincidence or has Pete really sunk so low as to pinch other people’s work. They have refused to comment – a sign of guilt? Who knows…
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