Libertines frontman Pete Doherty kept things pretty restrained on his 40th birthday in Margate, Kent.
A shadow of his party-loving self, the rocker was pictured walking with his two Husky dogs as he reached a big birthday milestone on Tuesday.
He was dressed in a typically-cool, oversized Parka jacket and a retro Baker Boy cap, which almost hid his salt and pepper hair.
Keeping things decidedly low-key, Kate Moss’s ex-fiance would have been cutting a solitary figure were it not for man’s best friend.
The rocker’s Siberian dogs walked beside him on leads looking well-behaved, four months after a neighbour claimed they’d killed her eight-year-old cat Archie.
While it’s not clear what Pete’s big birthday plans involve this week, the frontman is working up to his European tour with new band Peter Doherty and The Puta Madres.
The ensemble is releasing a debut album next month, and the band will be on the road by May.
Shows include Bristol, Manchester, London and Leeds before Paris, Vienna and Berlin.
The lead single from the self-titled album, called Who’s Been Having You Over, was quietly released back in January with new music from The Libertines expected in 2020.
With a busy year ahead, the Libertines star is said to have beaten his addiction demons after his last reported rehab stint in 2014.
Writing a letter from the Hope Rehab Centre in Thailand, Pete said he spoke frankly about his 10-year public struggle with cocaine and heroin addiction.
The singer describes said he wanted to get clean many times during his addiction, but didn’t know how.
Pete is said to have settled on the southeast coast in the last few years.
He quit the London life for Paris back in 2008, but quickly moved away from the chaotic French capital in favour of the peaceful town of Melun.
In 2015, he admitted to living a pretty boring existence, spending time going to antique markets and playing petanque.
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