The Libertines: by no stretch of the imagination a great band

Today's Libertines piece in the Guardian celebrates a band who broke down the barrier between artist and fans. But judging from the reader response, not everyone was keen on them – and I agreeContext is everything. The rise of the Libertines was baffling but inevitable. Every other country had its own version of the Strokes (even New Zealand had the Datsuns) and Britain so badly wanted a piece of the action we got ourselves in a terrible lather over a couple of bozos spewing what critics insis...

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