Bang Bang You're Dead

Album: Waterloo To Anywhere (2006)
Charted: 5
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  • This was their first single on Dirty Pretty Things debut album. The group was formed after Carl Barat and Gary Powell left The Libertines. >>>
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  • Though it was first thought this was about his former Libertine band mate Pete Docherty, Barat later denied it in various interviews. He told the Guardian April 22, 2006 that if he'd wanted to bitch about Docherty, he would have called the song Bang Bang Pete's Dead. Instead he told the newspaper: "It's about me - shooting the Evil Carl and getting on with it." Barat then explained that the Evil Carl is his depressive, miserable side.

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