About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Tanita Tikaram, Carl Barat, Elizabeth Hurley, Tom Cleverley, John Arlott, Robert Steadman, Tom Croft, Waldemar Januszczak, Ian McNeice, Rowan Vine, Josh Payne, Thomas Warton, Kit Symons, Scott Rendell, James Ward, Sam Attwater, Oliver Lancashire, Mitchell Stokes, Sean Doherty, John James, Julian Stockwin, Eddie Ingram, James Lancaster, John Freeman Dunn, Bob Young, List of people from Basingstoke, Lisbee Stainton, Cecil Lowther, Lee Sandford, Hilary Jones, Gwyther Irwin, Lee Nurse, Joshua Goodall, Chris Wood, Sarah Sutton, Arron Monk, Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, Darren Flint, Sid Castle, William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys, William Plowden, Matt Crossley, Christine Williams, George Cecil Jones, Lawrence Brown, Macdonald Hastings, Kurt Reynolds, Chuck Whelon, Steve Harris, Carl Greenidge, Neil Gunter. Excerpt: Carl Ashley Raphael Barat (born 6 June 1978) is an English musician, actor and author. He was the frontman and lead guitarist of Dirty Pretty Things, and recently debuted a solo album, but is best known for being the co-frontman with Peter Doherty of the garage rock band The Libertines. Carl Barat was born in Basingstoke, England on 6 June 1978, and spent most of his childhood in Whitchurch, Hampshire. In a September 2004 interview with Blender Magazine, Barat mentioned having a French, Russian and Polish ethnic background. As a youth, Barat divided his time between his divorced parents. His father, a former artist, worked in an armaments factory, and his mother, Chrissie, was part of the commune-dwelling counterculture and a member of peace groups such as the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Barat spent part of his childhood living with his mother on a commune in Somerset. He has one sister, actress-turned-singer Lucie Barat, who played Helen's handmaiden in the 2004 film Troy, and is currently the lead singer o...