Troubled rocker Pete Doherty has been voted one of the Greatest Rock Heroes of All Time in an NME poll.
The Babyshambles frontman was placed second on the shortlist, behind the late Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain.
The magazine expressed its surprise at the inclusion of Doherty in the list, branding him "a worn-out drug addict who needs help if he's every going to make decent music again".
It said: "Yes, there was a time when Pete Doherty lived his life with an unrivalled romantic zest, when he represented a truly anti-establishment voice. But is he really still your hero? Now that his second home seems to be the courtroom? Now that he misses more gigs than he plays?"
In 2004, when Doherty was voted Cool Icon by NME's readers, the magazine described him as "a modern-day minstrel, wandering the country playing for anyone who wants to see him."
It added: "There is something seductive about the idea of doomed destructive youth, which goes back to the Romantic poets."
Morrisey, Liam Gallagher and Carl Barat also made the top five of the rock heroes list.
