Who is this "Rock Star"?

Oh I forgot to put in this part of the article...

"For the sake of any dignity there may be left to salvage, please understand my decision not to name my ex-lover."

That's what annoyed me...don't know why now though...

The whole thing smacks of fiction to me.

"She's writing a novel" hmm....

i think she works for domino records (or at least someone with the same name does)

Constantly touring, but can't actually perform, plus the dates, should really be enough to pin it down, but I can't actually think of anyone.

I can't say I really find this offensive - that's the reality of dealing with a serious alkie.

Not offensive, no.

It's more that the whole tale reads like a pitch for a novel, reduced to the salient episodes.

I don't know who it is, so don't care. If I knew them personally, I may well do. If someone works out who it actually is, then OK I may be interested but still won't 'care'.

'Care' = moved to want to do something about it. If I had the money, and liked pete doherty a lot, I still wouldn't pay to send him to thailand.

I don't really find it offensive but the ending bugged me. It's got a kind of weary patronising tone that older people (like me) use to criticise stuff other people do that we used to do but are now too boring/old/tired to do!

Just as an aside what TV prog was Frostrup on in 1986/7 (as mentioned in article) - I thought the first thing she did was the terrible Big World Cafe (if indeed that was it was called?)?

I was going through some old 'music' videos I used to tape off the telly, and she was introducing someone on "Club X" or whatever it was called.