A Likely Lad

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Ant explains, "When Dec and I first moved to London and shared a flat, we had likely lads nights. We've been fans all our lives." The North East setting was also new to television, and it paved the way for Geordie dramas and comedies such as When The Boat Comes In, Auf Wiedersehen Pet and Spender. Moss and Doherty at Glastonbury festival, 2007 – the last time the couple stepped out together. Photograph: PA Images/Alamy He'd find plenty to moan about, but he'd see what the city had achieved architecturally and culturally, and he'd be proud," says his creator Ian La Frenais.

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In an exclusive extract from his new memoir, the Libertines frontman reflects on clandestine meetings, matching tattoos, and a very messy romance Pete Doherty has announced that he’ll publish a memoir called A Likely Lad this summer – get all the details below.Doherty’s latest release was the acclaimed collaborative album with French producer and songwriter Frédéric Lo, ‘The Fantasy Life of Poetry & Crime’. We gave it a bit of Newcastle pride perhaps. I think when you see the bridges, the art galleries, the coffee bars and the social life and the quays, I think it's progressed a bit - and I hope we all have." Don't quote me - Famous banter... The theme of nostalgia for the past recurs throughout the TV series. In the follow-up Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads we revisit Bob and Terry seven years on, and the social references become more marked. The song and the sitcom spoke volumes about the social and economic revolution of the Sixties and Seventies when Tyneside was undergoing a huge transformation. It adds: “In A Likely Lad, Doherty explores his darkest moments. With astonishing frankness – and his trademark wit and humour – he takes us inside decadent parties, substance-fuelled nights, prison and his self-destruction. Doherty also reflects on the turbulent relationships with various significant people in his life across the years.

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Over the course of 20 episodes, our folk heroes and Geordie partners in crime, Bob Ferris and Terry Collier, extolled the rights and wrongs of everything from beer and birds to Newcastle United and nightlife. There had been times in the past when photos had been taken off my phone and used in the press, so after the “High As a Kate” thing Kate turned against me. She said, if you didn’t sell the photos, how did they get in the papers? And I couldn’t say. I just presumed a friend of mine must have done it. Sandinista!’ still encapsulates it because there are still a lot of ideas. It’s just about getting everyone in a room and getting on with it.” They both have one foot in the past, but they are constantly battling to makes sense of the changing world around them. Friends and neighboursLast month, Doherty revealed in an interview that he “nearly lost my feet” while he was battling drug addiction.

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Terry "This town might have a new Civic Centre mate, but it doesn't disguise the fact that it's a dead end". Tyneside was grappling with massive slum clearance, the loss of its manufacturing industries, and a cultural revolution. The times they are a' changing Terry "To tell you the truth I don't much like anyone outside this town. And there aren't many families down our street that I can stand". At the end of the tour we did that ended last month, everyone was really upbeat by the fact that we were all still alive after the various quarantines and John coming and going,” he said. “We were all really upbeat about the future, so I don’t know how or when it’s going to happen but I think it will. The Likely Lads is one of the most enduring shows in television history. Frequently repeated and often hailed as a classic, it gave the North East a voice for the first time when it was originally screened in 1964.

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When Kate found out I hadn’t finished the treatment, she told me point-blank that that was it, there was no way we could see each other now. I said, yeah, but you were supposed to come and get me in a helicopter for a day trip to the Grand Canyon. The split was all over the press. Kate was quoted in the Mirror saying, “I wish I’d never met him. He’s a user in every sense of the word.” Everything was falling apart. Many of the show's master recordings were 'lost' when the master recordings were wiped at the end of the 1960s Brilliant! The Likely Lads are sorely missed. Will there ever be a repeat of the first series? Is any part of either series on DVD?

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Since The Libertines rose to international fame, Doherty has proved endlessly fascinating. A whirlwind of controversy and scandal has tailed him ever since the early 2000s, so much so that all too often his talents as a songwriter and performer have been overlooked; for every award and accolade, there is a scathing review. Hard drugs, tiny gigs on the hoof, huge stadium shows, collaborations, obliterations, gangsters and groupies – Doherty has led a life of huge highs and incredible lows. Bob and Terry became Geordie icons, as well known as Andy Capp and as revered as football heroes like Malcolm McDonald and Bobby Moncur. Goodbye to all that Deep down in my heart I like to think it’s just a lie and Kate didn’t really destroy him, that she’s still got him, but no, as far as I know, he’s dead, ashes. It still rankles – it was the one thing I’d held on to. The only time I’ve spoken to her since was eight or nine years ago in Paris. She called me up out of the blue. I just said, “Have you still got the tattoo?” That was the only thing I could think of to say.I’m quite fragile, really, within myself. That kind of destructive relationship, there’s nothing glamorous about it – it wears you down in the end and turns you nasty. Bob and Terry were like real people, the sort of lads you might meet down the pub on a night out in Newcastle. Inside Out Quiz La Frenais believes that Bob and Thelma with their aspirations and attempts at self-improvement would also have embraced the new North East. Terry is renowned for his bigoted views and old-fashioned attitudes, but he's also a moaner and a cynic, criticising all and everything around him. Smooth talking TERRY persuades him that a small chain of pubs would be a good idea -with TERRY as overall Manager?