It wasn't the jail time, the tragic deaths of friends or even nearly losing both his feet that finally saved Pete Doherty from self-destruction. It was a song.
The former Libertines and Babyshambles frontman - once one of music's most notorious junkies - was desperately fighting the familiar demons of addiction as he "white knuckled it" in his new home in rural France in early 2020.
He recalls: "I hadn't had a phone or been online for a couple of years. Word got to me that this fella wanted me to cover a song by French singer Daniel Darc. It was called 'Inutile et hors d'usage,' which means 'Useless and all used up'."
