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Video resurfaces of Oasis megafan Pete Doherty's first foray into fame when he was interviewed at the front of the queue to buy band's iconic 1997 album Be Here Now amid their huge reunion news


Pete Doherty's first foray into fame came when he gave a hilarious interview while queuing to buy Oasis' Be Here Now album in 1997.

I was working in the Trocadero Centre [in London] demonstrating wind-up frogs, and I knew that there was something going on cos there was all these TV cameras and photographers, and there was a giant cardboard cut-out of Noel and Liam, so I went down there – I just wanted to get on the telly'. Millions of people are set to 'go to war' for tickets this weekend after Noel and Liam put their 15-year feud behind them to announce a mammoth comeback tour across the UK and Ireland next summer. Kasabian, consisting of Sergio Pizzorno, Chris Edwards, Ian Matthews, and Tim Carter, were formed in Leicester in 1997 and are known for songs Fire and Club Foot.

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