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Rolling Stone Richards "snorted father's ashes"

Wigwam Jones

Wigwam Jones

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I would have sworn that this was an April Fool's Day joke...but no.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/03/AR2007040301540.html

Rolling Stone Richards "snorted father's ashes"

Reuters
Tuesday, April 3, 2007; 6:51 PM

LONDON (Reuters) - Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards said in an interview that he snorted his father's ashes during a drugs binge, British media reported late on Tuesday.

The top selling Sun tabloid said the interview appeared in the latest edition of the NME music magazine.

An NME spokeswoman said the story was genuine and not a late April Fool's joke, and that the edition in question would appear on newsstands across Britain from Wednesday. She did not have a copy of the interview available late on Tuesday.

"The strangest thing I've tried to snort?" the Sun quoted Richards as saying in its early Wednesday edition.

"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.

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

According to the report, Richards' father, Bert, died in 2002 aged 84.

The 63-year-old rocker, who underwent an operation in New Zealand last year after reportedly falling out of a tree when in Fiji, also took a swipe at some of the big musical acts of today.

"Everyone's a load of crap," he said. "They are trying to be somebody else and they ain't being themselves. Libertines, Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party? Load of crap, load of crap. Posers, rubbish."

Richards said he was proud of his ability to survive despite a legendary rock'n'roll lifestyle.

"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."

Richards' publicist in London was not immediately available for comment on the interview.
© 2007 Reuters
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its really a sad commentary to read things like this, people ask all the time, what's wrong with the world today and the answers right in front of them. oh well i think i'll listen to an early Stones lp and not try to think to deep about what makes anyone tick, in keiths case, it's a weighted chain.
 
Keith Richards has now been classified by the FDA as a walking controlled substance.

lmao! Gives a new meaning to insest, I guess! WEIRD!
 
Washington Post said:
The 63-year-old rocker, who underwent an operation in New Zealand last year after reportedly falling out of a tree when in Fiji, also took a swipe at some of the big musical acts of today.

"Everyone's a load of crap," he said. "They are trying to be somebody else and they ain't being themselves. Libertines, Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party? Load of crap, load of crap. Posers, rubbish."
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This coming from a bandmember whose overstay of his welcome is measured in decades rather than years. Couldn't resist taking a potshot at the competition, neh? Tosser. I hate him. If life were fair, he'd be dead.
 
Dusty Chalk said:
If life were fair, he'd be dead.
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If life were fair....
If life were fair...

Click your heels three times and say, "There's no place..."

Yeah, nice concept.

And the Stones haven't been relevant since before "Some Girls."
Maybe include that album.

Back to the concept of reality...
Exactly how far scorched do you have to be to snort your dad's ashes?
In what decade DID Keith Richards completely lose touch?
He's a parody of that '60s-'70s joke about smoking banana peels,
which sounds completely rational compared to what he admitted doing.
 
you just have to give him credit he either made the biggest deal with the devil or money can really buy anything.

but i wounder how many scientific explinations or studies he has prooved wron gin his life

i still figure his over indulging for 40 years has actually perserved his body to the point wher ehe will out live and probaly has outlived the most of us

i still hope they keep rocking

I wil get hated for this but they have all outlived the beatles

and sound better too:banana:
 
The Keith legacy just keeps getting bigger & weirder!
He didn't say he snorted ALL his dad's ashes, did he?
I admire Keith because he's still kicking after all he's been through.
 
This story reminds me of an old Mel Brooks bit.

USNews story about Brook's Humor:

Mel Brooks uses comedy to expose life's horrors and expunge pain. "There isn't a subject that's taboo." One of the biggest laughs he ever got, he says, was for a bit he wrote for the 1950s hit Your Show of Shows. A man shakes his father's ashes into the East River, only to have them blow all over his coat. Where's your father? "I'd have to say Rand Cleaners on 79th Street."
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Cheers, Snade
 
Good'on ya Keef!

He's the prime example of better living through pharmacy. That he still has a pulse and vinegar is one of life's great chuckles.
 
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