Pete Doherty recalls wild first meeting with Shane MacGowan

Pete Doherty recalls wild first meeting with Shane MacGowanSource: BBC Newshour

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00:00 It was actually at Kate Moss' house and she talked about him a lot. Obviously I knew him

00:10 through Legend and I knew a couple of his songs but she talked about him and his wife

00:15 as well actually, Victoria, like they were kind of gurus and they used to tell me how

00:19 much they knew about history and how he was so down to earth and when I met him he just

00:23 charged in, took my crack pipe off me, smashed it up, charged out and then came back and

00:31 helped me put it back together with sellotape. That was the first time I ever met him so

00:36 I thought that was pretty cool but then I saw each other a lot from time to time and

00:41 it wasn't always, you know, narcotic moments. In fact, it wasn't most of the time. We'd

00:45 just be there around their house and he'd say "Oh, okay, get the guitar out, go and

00:52 show us what you've got" and we'd just put up and play guitar and sing songs and

00:59 I just loved the bloke to be honest. I knew he was ill, do you know what I mean? But I

01:07 kind of thought he was bulletproof.

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