Keith Richards

Ronnie Spector says Keith Richards agreeing to induct the Ronettes into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tonight (Monday, March 12th) is just another example of the bond she shares with the Stones'guitarist.

Spector says that in addition to performing on her latest album, called The Last Of The Rock Stars, she and Richards have also written another yet-to-be recorded track that sums up their longtime friendship: "I mean, I was just with Keith not too long ago. We're writing this song and it's together, called 'Love Affair.' 'Cause we've had a love affair, Keith and I, for 39 years. No matter where I am or he is in the world, he faxes me -- 'How are you?'He sends me flowers at Christmas, so we stay in touch. I go over to his house and jam with his friends in the band."

Ronnie Spector's The Last Of The Rock Stars is available as an import, with a U.S. release date set for later this year.

Дядя Кеша говорит, что нюхал кокаин, смешанный с прахом его отца, умершего в 2002 году.
"Его кремировали, и я не мог удержаться от того, чтобы не смешать его с коксом, - рассказал КР в своем новом интервью журналу NME. - Папаше было бы все равно, он вообще срать на все хотел."
Кеша утверждает, что после этого он не ощутил никаких болезненных эффектов.

Rolling Stone 'snorted father's ashes'
04/04/2007

Rolling Stones wildman Keith Richards claims he snorted his own father's ashes during a drugs binge.

Richards made the extraordinary admission in an interview with NME magazine.

"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," he said.

"He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared, he didn't give a s***.

"It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."

Richards' father, Bert, died in 2002 aged 84.

The 63-year-old rocker also recounted his worst drugs experience.

"It was when someone put strychnine in my dope. It was in Switzerland. I was totally comatose, but I was totally awake. I could listen to everyone, and they were like, 'He's dead, he's dead!', waving their fingers and pushing me about, and I was thinking, 'I'm not dead!'," .

But he said: "I've no pretensions about immortality - I'm the same as everyone else - same as you, same as everybody.

"I was number one on the Who's Likely To Die list for 10 years. I mean, I was really disappointed when I fell off the list.

"Some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral. The obit columns are of quite an interest to me these days. I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all."

Richards predicted that Pete Doherty could be the next drugs casualty - and told him to leave supermodel Kate Moss alone.

"My advice for Pete Doherty is that he should shut up and leave her," he said. "I don't know the man, all I know is he's pushing his luck and there it is, but so is Kate, who I know very well.

"Kate wants to play with bad boys, and she's done one, and then another one, and then another one. Badabing, badabang, badaboom. She'll live, the boys will die."

And he warned rock stars not to emulate his fabled drug-taking.

"I did it because that was the way I did it. Now people think it's a way of life," he said.

The Rolling Stones will kick off the European leg of their A Bigger Bang tour in June.

Last year their touring was interrupted when Richards reportedly fell out of a palm tree while on holiday in Fiji.

But Richards said: "I wasn't climbing a tree. I was sitting on a shrub. I was sitting on that shrub again today, but I happened to fall off it the wrong way that day."

He underwent brain surgery after the accident and revealed: "I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain. I've got pictures of it, mate. They cut my head, brain, skull open, went in and pulled out the crap, and put some of it back again.

The full interview is in the new issue of NME, out tomorrow.

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RICHARDS: 'I THOUGHT DEPP WAS A FAILED ROCKER'

ROLLING STONE KEITH RICHARDS had no idea who JOHNNY DEPP was until the Hollywood superstar asked him to play his father in the new PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN film The 63-year-old rocker admits he thought Depp was a "failed rock'n'roll artist" until he did his research and discovered the truth. Richards tells NME magazine, "He was just another of my son's friends. I didn't know what he did. "I thought he was a failed rock'n'roll artist, then I started to see his work. He called and said, 'Hey, Jesus Christ, I've copied you to do Pirates' - which I thought was the gentlemanly way of letting me know. "No wonder he paid for all the beers. I didn't realise I was being observed."


RICHARDS IS SWORN OFF HEROIN

Rocker KEITH RICHARDS still indulges in drugs at the age of 63, but is sworn off heroin describing the dangerously addictive narcotic as "f**king painful". The ROLLING STONE battled heroin addiction during the 1970s and is determined never to succumb to the temptation again. He tells British music magazine NME, "The one thing I'll never do is the dope. I won't do that again. Everything else is up for grabs. Why wouldn't I do the dope again? Because I've been there and done that and it's f**king painful. The other schmucks are doing it all the time and I pity them."

Stones star 'snorted dad's ashes'

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has claimed he snorted the ashes of his late father during a drugs binge.

"He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow," he told NME in an interview.

His father, Bert, died at the age of 84 in 2002. Richards added: "It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."

The 64-year-old also spoke of his disdain for modern bands, calling the Arctic Monkeys, The Libertines and Bloc Party "a load of crap".

'Cut open'

He also revealed more details of the accident which left him facing brain surgery last year in Fiji, when it was widely reported he had fallen out of a tree, forcing dates on the Rolling Stones tour to be cancelled.

"I wasn't climbing a tree," he said, "I was sitting on a shrub. I was sitting on that shrub again today, but I happened to fall off it the wrong way that day."

He added: "I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain. I've got pictures of it, mate.

"They cut my head, brain, skull open, went in and pulled out the crap, and put some of it back again."

The Rolling Stones are currently in the middle of their A Bigger Bang tour, which finally hits the UK in June.

They have already played to more than a million people, selling tickets worth £76m.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6524661.stm

Да что с ним такое? :(((

во дает...)

Врет, поди. Развлекает население.

какой эпатаж!

2Primal Scream:

>Врет, поди. Развлекает население.

В принципе, такое возможно, после второй или третьей дозы, вспоминая Папу...

"Кокаин с пеплом" оказался шуткой Кейта Ричардса

Перепечатанный десятками СМИ отрывок из интервью гитариста Rolling Stones Кейта Ричардса, где музыкант рассказал о том, как нюхал кокаин, смешанный с пеплом кремированного отца, оказался шуткой. Дезавуировала удивительное заявление Ричардса многолетний менеджер группы Джейн Роуз (Jane Rose). "Это было сказано в шутку. Поверить не могу, что все приняли это всерьез", - заявила она в письме, адресованном MTV News.

Рассказ Ричардса о "понюшке" опубликовал лондонский журнал New Musical Express, источник, по мнению обозревателя MTV News, ненадежный по определению. Но такие серьезные издания, как Associated press, Forbes, The Drudge Report, Breitbart и E! Online перепечатали новость, не перепроверив ее.

Отец Кейта Ричардса Берт умер в 2002 году в возрасте 84 лет.

http://lenta.ru/news/2007/04/04/jest/

04.04.07 From Keith RichardsThe story currently circulating around the net that Keith snorted his Dad's ashes with some cocaine is totally untrue. To set the record straight, Keith has sent us the following statement:

"The complete story is lost in the usual slanting! The truth of the matter is that I planted a sturdy English Oak . I took the lid off the box of ashes and he is now growing oak trees and would love me for it!!! I was trying to say how tight Bert and I were. That tight!!! I wouldn't take cocaine at this point in my life unless I wished to commit suicide."

http://www.rollingstones.com/news/news.php?uid=626

2Alex GB:

Очередная байка от Кифа.

Рекламная компания тура в действии… нет нового материала, выпускаем к прессе Кита…
Мик сдал новых детей не прибавляет, весь в делах.

В точности, как в поговорке: ради красного словца не пожалел родного отца. Вот же гад!

interview the world is talking about in full
Read the full piece, including how Keith snorted his father, on NME.COM now
04.Apr.07

It's the interview the whole world is talking about today (April 4) - Keith Richards telling NME what rock 'n' roll has taught him.

And yes, this is the interview where the guitar legend admits to snorting the ashes of his own father.

The article features in this week's issue of NME - on UK newsstands now.

Now on NME.COM you can read our Keith Richards interview in full, as The Rolling Stones' guitarist tells us what rock 'n' roll has taught him...

The biggest cliché in rock'n'roll is...

There's no roll
"They forgot the roll and they only kept the rock. The roll's the whole damn thing dude, the rock is nothing, deal with it, the roll is king. Unfortunately most cats don't get behind the roll."

The three things I guarantee I'll never do again are...

1) Heroin
"The one thing I'll never do is the dope. I won't do that again. Everything else is up for grabs. Why wouldn't I do the dope again? Because I've been there and done that, and it's fucking painful, man. The other schmucks are doing it all the time and I pity them."

2) Climb coconut trees
"I wasn't climbing a tree [when he fell, suffering concussion and subsequently having to undergo brain surgery], I was sitting on a fucking shrub. I was sitting on that shrub again today, but I happened to fall off it the wrong way that day."

3) Be trepanned
"I wouldn't want to do that again. It's having your fucking skull cut open. It's what I had to go through. Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon,
who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain. I've got pictures of it mate, yeah. They cut my head, brain, skull open, went in and pulled out the crap, and put some of it back in again. But that's the way it is, I mean, shit, Keith Richards has got to do everything once."

Never trust anyone...

Who tells you you've six months to live
"I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral. The obit columns are of quite an interest to me these days. I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all."

You don't know the meaning of the dark side until...

It goes really bad
"Then you never wake up to find out. Several times I've thought, 'This is it.' And it's quite a comforting feeling, actually, thinking, 'Jesus Christ I'm getting out of it now.' I've no pretensions about immortality - I'm the same as everyone else - same as you, same as everybody, I'm the same old bugger, just kind of lucky. I was Number 1 on the Who's Likely To Die list for 10 years, I mean I was really disappointed when I fell off the list."

My favourite new band is...

I ain't got any, they're all a load of crap
"Everyone's a load of crap. They're all trying to be somebody else and they ain't being themselves. The Libertines, Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party? Load of crap, load a crap. Posers, rubbish. There ain't nothing out there that's worth shit. I listen to the real shit, I don't listen to bullshit. I listen to my shit, baby, Motörhead, reggae, Moroccan music. All kinds of shit."

The band I most wish I was in is...

The Rolling Stones
"They're the only band I care about, I can't wait to get back on the road with those bastards, who happen to miraculously be one of the best bands in the world. I dunno how the hell it happened. I mean you're playing beside Charlie Watts - yeah baby, you've gotta gig on. We're doing the Isle Of Wight this summer and that great, it's only down the road - I live in West Wittering, so it's just across the bay, you know."

The best guitar solo ever committed to record is...

Chuck Berry's solo on 'Little Queenie'
"I mean, whoooah! His guitar playing is just so sublime. But then
I could go with Scotty Moore and his solo on 'Mystery Train' with Elvis, when you start me on this shit you really start me going. I'll go on all night."

The best time I've ever had on drugs was...

I can't remember
"It's those nights you forget, but you know what happened because there are 15 other people telling you that you were hanging naked upside down from the chandelier. The other best bit is the morning after, when you wake up and realise you've had a great time. I mean drugs have got really nothing to do with life. Drugs are there if you want them, and it's not a big fucking deal."

The worst time I've had on drugs was...

When someone put strychnine in my dope
"It was in Switzerland. I was totally comatose, but I was totally awake,
I could listen to everyone, and they were like, 'He's dead, he's dead!' waving their fingers and pushing me about, and I was thinking, 'I'm not dead!'. So that's sort of the worst one. But I got out of that, I mean otherwise I wouldn't be talking to you. But yeah, bad shit is bad shit. The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared, he didn't give a shit.
It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."

The actor I'd most like to play me in a film is...

Johnny Depp
"Johnny and I had a great time, loads of fun. I expected [filming the third 'Pirates Of The Carribean' movie, 'At World's End'] to be fun but it was even more fun than I had imagined. I was driving through the driveway to Walt Disney studios the other day thinking, 'Jesus Christ, I'm following in the footsteps of Mickey Mouse here.' No, it was brilliant, I was there for four or five days and I did my bit, and Johnny was his usual graceful self and we're both the same size, so we swapped clothes and there it is. I met Johnny and he was just another one of my son's friends, 'This is Brian, this is Debbie, this is Johnny', and we met like that, years ago. I didn't even know what he did, I thought he was a failed rock'n'roll artist, and then I started to see some of his work and then he called me up said, 'Hey Jesus Christ, I've copied you to do 'Pirates...',' which I thought was the gentlemanly way of letting me know. I mean no wonder he paid for all the beers. I didn't realise I was being observed."

The best thing I ever saw was...

When a lady's got her legs wide open. La-di-da
"I don't wanna go there because I'd have to name the ladies and there's far too many. I mean I did go there, but I ain't going there with you."

My best advice to young bands is...

Grow up
"I mean who do you think you're gonna be? It's a matter of finding out who you wanna be. So to a band, I don't care how old or young they are, find out who you wanna be. If they wanna just be famous, or a star, that's easy, for a day or two, if you wanna be in a band then you'd better check out the shit all the way back. My advice for Pete Doherty in particular, though, is that he should shut the fuck up and leave her [Kate Moss] alone. I don't know the man, all I know is he's pushing his luck, and there it is, but so is Kate, who I know very well. Kate wants to play with bad boys, and she's done one, and then another one, and then another one. Badabing, badabang, badaboom! She'll live, the boys will die. It's just copycat bullshit. I did it because that was the way I did it, now people think it's a way of life."

I want to make a record as good as...

'Heartbreak Hotel'
"I mean there's a million of them. I guess '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction''s got to be close, and 'Beast Of Burden' maybe, yeah, and 'Tumbling Dice', 'Honky Tonk Women'. I'm starting to reel them off and it's not fair to all my other babies."

The coolest rock star in the world, ever is...

Me!
"I mean, right, it goes without saying really, doesn't it? I mean
I don't think I'm cool, it's other people that tell me I'm cool, I'm just being who I am. Just be yourself is all I can say, the rest of it's a fucking joke. 'Elegantly wasted' blah-blah-blah, I've had all of that. If you've gotta be cool be cool with yourself. If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool."

I would never have my hair cut like...

Anyone except me
"I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself. I've never let anybody touch it. My mum used to give me two shillings and sixpence every two weeks to get my hair cut, and I would just ignore the barber and chop it off myself and keep the fucking money. Spent it on cigs. And a bit of booze, probably, and I'd try and impress a bird here or there, too."

I'll stop playing when...

I croak
"That's it. I don't see any reason why it should stop if there's those of 'em still out there that wanna see it and I wanna play it, let's get it together. I mean I get antsy just sitting in one place for too long. I've had a few brushes with old death, he's kind of a friend of mine, actually, and er, if you hang around me you'll have a brush with it too."

http://www.nme.com/news/the-rolling-stones/27531

Rolling Stones rocker Keith Richards has never been shy about speaking his mind, although his "confession" that he snorted his father's ashes is probably the most outrageous of them all.



Here is a selection of Richards' choicest quotes from over the years:


I thought it was ludicrous to take one of those gongs from the establishment when they did their very best to throw us in jail.
Talking about Sir Mick Jagger accepting a knighthood to Uncut magazine

There are certain guys that are band players and there's certain guys that ain't. If there's anybody lazier than me, it's Eric (Clapton).
Mojo magazine


I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
He tells Rolling Stone of his drug-taking past

I thought rock and roll was an unassailable outlet for some pure and natural expression of rebellion. It used to be one channel you could take without ever havin' to kiss ass, you know?
Rolling Stone

You can't get off the bus. You've really got to drop on this job. It's all I'm really good at.
Talking about carrying on in the music business on the Rolling Stones DVD


I was number one on the Who's Likely To Die list for 10 years. I mean, I was really disappointed when I fell off the list.
NME

The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
BBC Newsnight 2005

I'm a family man. I'm a grandfather now - I'm really a benign sort of chap.
BBC Newsnight 1983

It was when someone put strychnine in my dope. It was in Switzerland. I was totally comatose, but I was totally awake. I could listen to everyone, and they were like, 'He's dead, he's dead!', waving their fingers and pushing me about, and I was thinking, `I'm not dead!'.
He recalls his worst drug experience to NME

Иннокентий и канарейка.

Однажды Кит вышвырнул из окна канарейку, которая доставала его своим пением, когда после бурной питейной сессии у него было тяжкое похмелье. Случилось это в особняке Ронни Вуда в Лос-Анджелесе. Канарейка принадлежала тогда еще 5-летнему сыну Вуда Джейми. Когда Ронни спросил у Кита, что он наделал, тот ответил, что не знал, что птичка была настоящей. Им пришлось прочесать территорию вокруг дома, чтобы найти канарейку и посадить ее обратно в клетку прежде чем Джейми обнаружит потерю.

Джейми, которому сейчас 32, сказал, что эту историю ему только что на днях рассказала его мать. Кит подумал, что канарейка была будильником. Когда же Ронни сказал ему, что это была живая птичка Джейми, Кит пробурчал в ответ: "Откуда мне было знать, что она настоящая?".

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,4-2007160547,00.html

2Primal Scream:
А мог ведь принять бедную птичку и за лимон...

2Uncle Rooty:

А лимон с похмелья идет?