There are many urgent topics demanding our attention on the fringe. Having a famous brother is not high among them. Yet that, initially at least, is the primary hang-up of Lucie Barât.
Many of us would be delighted to see our siblings prosper, but she was too preoccupied with her own bumpy career to be anything but envious when her kid brother hit the big time. He is Carl Barât of the Libertines, who seemed to go overnight from borrowing her guitar to being a music-paper darling.
