Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood supported Led Zeppelin at the Knebworth Festival in 1979 in The New Barbarians.ġ1. He said when he listened back to it in the morning there was about two minutes of acoustic guitar before you could hear him drop the pick and “then me snoring for the next forty minutes”.ġ0. He ran through it once before falling asleep. Keith Richards recorded the rough version of the riff for “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” in a hotel room. It’s draconian, social, politically correct bullshit.”ĩ. A heavy smoker since his teens, we worked out that smoking a packet a day of Marlboros, Keith has smoked over half a million cigarettes! Venting his anger at smoking bans he said: “It’s a bit of a drag because you’ve got to freeze your balls off to light a cigarette. On the night of the infamous 1967 Redlands drug bust, Keith was so far gone on LSD that when the police arrived at his Sussex country mansion, he mistook them for uniformed dwarves, welcoming them in with open arms.Ĩ. “This means that I have been conscious for at least three lifetimes,” he calculated.ħ. In his “Life” autobiography, Richards reckons that on average, he slept only two nights a week for many years of the Stones’ glory years. In 1976 when Keith Richards arrived two and a half hours late for a UK court appearance, on drug and driving charges, he blamed his late arrival on the fact that his trousers had not been returned from the cleaners on time.Ħ. From September 1950, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were classmates at Wentworth Primary School in Dartford, Kent.ĥ. During 1993, Keith Richards adopted a stray cat in Barbados which he named Voodoo, he dubbed the terrace of the house, “the Voodoo Lounge”, which is where the name of the Stones’ 1994 album was taken.Ĥ. In his autobiography, Keith said he once cleared a hotel room of unwanted guests by getting a gun out and firing it through the floor.ģ. The Fort Harrison Hotel (known at the time as the Jack Tar Harrison Hotel) where Keith Richards rolled out of bed with the idea for the riff for “ (I Can’t Get No), Satisfaction” was bought by the Church of Scientology in 1975 and now frequently hosts religious retreats.Ģ.
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