New York Dolls frontman David Johansen has been talking to the Guardian about Pete Doherty, and in particular about the parallels between him and Johansen's former bandmate Johnny Thunders who, of course, died in 1991 after years battling heroin addition.
Johansen: "Heroin destroyed everything for the Dolls. Heroin and needles killed my band. Johnny got married to heroin and it's a fucking shame because he was the best songwriter I ever met. I see a lot of Johnny in that kid Pete Doherty. He's a great talent. When I first heard one of his songs, 'Fuck Forever', I thought, 'Man, that is the most romantic thing I've ever heard a man say to a woman'. But heroin will take him away from the songs just like Johnny, because she is a bitch, and that's what she does."