• Bagel Bakery, Brick Lane, London

    Roger Sargent reflects: This was part of the first session we did. The photographs were ‘binned’ for many years as the band were certainly embryonic in terms of their look. The band that launched dozens of fashion campaigns they were not. In retrospect though these pictures (and there are many) now have a certain timeless quality.
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  • Carl and Peter at the Freedom gig, Tap ‘n’ Tin, Chatham

    Roger explains: This is from the same roll of film as the now iconic second LP cover photo. 
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  • Carl Barat, NYC

    Roger Sargent remembers: I paid for myself to go to New York to cover the east coast leg of their short tour. It was the first and I think last time I ever did that with any band —which is a measure of how important I thought it was to document.
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  • Carl Barat wearing Joe Strummer’s jacket, Rough Trade Party, London

    Roger Sargent explains: Jeanette Lee was given that jacket by Joe Strummer. She gave it to Carl.
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  • A session image from the shoot for the first NME cover

    Roger remembers: Shooting their first cover session was something of a French Farce. Peter and Carl would call me to see if the other had arrived so as they could out late each other. Many people have derided Peter for trashing a classic England shirt, what they don’t know is that it was the result of Carl trying to set him on fire— the cheeky monkey. Coincidently that shirt would cost you in the region of a monkey today.
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  • First shoot, first set up, Bethnal Green, London

    Roger Sargent remembers: Tony Linkin, the band’s publicist was also a long-suffering whipping boy during our shoots. Both Carl and Peter have razor sharp wit. I don’t recall what exactly was said but I know Carl is delivering cuttingly, humorous jibes Tony’s way.
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  • Floored, London

    Roger explains: From the same session as ‘Last Gang’. The band (with the aid of my polaroid’s) are getting a greater sense of their visual selves.
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  • Footbridge, East London

    Roger Sargent remembers: Again, from the east London safari that was the first photo session we did. This is one of my favourite images of the band. It looks like it’s taken in Long Kesh or something.
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  • Howling at the pre-gig ritual, London

    Roger recalls: It's still the pre-gig ritual today, and I feel privileged to be the only person allowed to see this.
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  • The Libertines in red jackets, London

    Roger Sargent explains: So, the band’s take on my request for uniformity, taken literally. There was a little hoo-ha about even shooting the band wearing these jackets because of perceived negative connotations from other bands. Menswear—of Britpop vintage—had worn something similar at some point, but I insisted we shoot them regardless. They just looked so good. It was the first time I remember shooting something and believing it to be iconic immediately. Again, few people agreed so the photos were “binned” for a year or so. 
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  • Innocent, Brick Lane, London

    Roger Sargent remembers: Someone told me recently that the writing—a William Burroughs quote—was sprayed by Banksy. At the time his work, and that by other artists, was dotted around the east end. One of these shots became the cover for the documentary I made about the band. Apt sentiment.
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  • Kate Moss, Peter and Carl at The Boogaloo Bar, North London, 18 April 2005

    Roger Sargent recalls: This was one of many truly strange days. Carl had called me to say that he and Peter would be meeting up for the first time since the band split. They would be meeting in the Boogaloo and he wanted me come along for moral support—moral support under the guise of documenting the meet up. I stuck with him and knowing that Peter wouldn’t mind, and that it would diffuse the atmosphere a little, I snapped a few frames of the two embracing. Suddenly Kate plonked herself down next to the pair of them. It was quite frustrating because she clearly did it to get into the pictures—but then complained about my photographing her. I told her I’d rather she wasn’t in the pictures, but she didn’t move. Later, she took me aside and told me a bizarre story of how she’d had a photographer beaten up, like it was supposed to rattle me. It didn’t.
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  • Last Gang, London

    Roger Sargent explains: After the first day shooting the band, it seemed and felt like we’d got nothing. The expectations had been high, and the photos didn’t hit. They looked a little disparate. Like they didn’t belong together. We had another shoot planned a few days later and I suggested we get them wearing clothes to bring them together. Leather jackets, jeans etc. Like colours. Uniformity. The band took the uniformity suggestion very literally.
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  • Peter and Carl, Cherry Jam Beatles, London

    Roger recalls: This was a pivotal show for me. I’d had enough of the music industry, I’d moved out of London and was considering my options. My good friend and Libertine’s publicist Tony ‘The Tiger’ Linkin convinced me to come and shoot the show for NME. The gig was crazy and chaotic which I loved. The pictures had a feel of Beatles in their Hamburg era.
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  • Peter and Carl in the toilet at CBGBs

    Roger Sargent explains: I loved CBGB’s. It’s criminal that it was allowed to close—it’s more significant than The White House in my humble opinion. This is around the load in time, mid-afternoon, I’d been here before, the band had not, so I was winding them up about the great shows and bands who’d played before them. If I recall correctly the boys are reading Village Voice and checking out the preview for their show. Peter’s comedy cigarette is priceless. 
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  • Peter live, London

    Roger Sargent explains: Their live shows were often so much about chaos and camaraderie, I wanted to include a favourite photo with less of the usual madness.
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  • Peter with mirrored guitar, Albion Rooms, London

    Roger Sargent explains: I always felt a little odd taking pictures of people ‘partaking’. It’s never something I’d do surreptitiously but even when asked by the protagonist it’s uncomfortable. I think mostly it comes from the (in my mind) implied betrayal of trust—that weeks later one would run to the tabloids—not that I ever have. I’ve included this only because I think it’s a great photo. A little bit naughty but also cautionary. 
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  • Peter’s bedroom, London

    Roger Sargent remembers: When we arrived at Carl and Peter’s Bethnal Green flat at the assigned time, none of the band were there. Luckily Tony Linkin (the band's publicist) had a spare key. They introduced me to a new experience – a band being late to meet me in their own home! The lounge was a sight to behold. You literally could not see the floor for “knees up” detritus. The bath was full of washing up from the kitchen and the toilet didn’t flush. Turns out the water had been turned off and they’d resorted to filling it with bottled mineral water in order to expunge it’s contents.
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  • Rehearsing for the Reading Festival, Kings Cross, London

    Roger Sargent reflects: It was such a genuinely joyful experience being at the first rehearsals when the band reformed. They’d been somewhat shoehorned together for the payday but who gives a fuck, hearing the first few bars of ‘Horror Show’ again was godlike.
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  • Recording their second album, The Libertines, Metropolis Studios, West London, Spring 2004

    Roger Sargent recalls: Recording the second LP happened in fits and starts as I remember. Without Mick Jones things would have probably gone a lot worse. This was a band in the middle of bearing their collective souls in the most candid and brutal way possible.
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  • Reformed, London

    Roger Sargent recalls: I’d never been particularly nervous or intimidated around a shoot with The Libertines before, but some time had passed since I’d seen Peter. I’d been shooting Carls band Dirty Pretty Things a lot and only seen Peter on a handful of occasions in six years. There was a ‘them’ or at least ‘him’ and ‘us’ feeling. At the time I was more concerned about my own feelings – Peter had become a kind of infamous tabloid figure and we read about him more than spent time with him. I could feel his nervousness and it made me feel more nervous. I feel stupid having thought this at the time, but it crossed my mind that the things we’d read might come true – he might smash things up or start a fight. Ludicrous how shitty tabloid spin can skew things.
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  • Second shoot, London

    Roger Sargent reflects: If there’s a better looking, cooler band out there then I’ve not seen them.
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  • On a sofa, Albion Rooms, London

    Roger Sargent explains: This was a little set up, but the more posed frames look a little awkward. I like to leave people to see what happens though sometimes, unprompted.
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  • Carl and Peter on the tour bus between Birmingham and Manchester

    Roger Sargent remembers: Fun, my overarching memory of working with The Libertines, despite all the pain and disappointments will always be one of fun. Four of the warmest, gentle, creative, intelligent and funniest people I’ve had the pleasure of pointing a camera towards.
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