Keith Richards on making the December’s Children and Aftermath albums:“I learned a lot from albums like December’s Children and Aftermath. I did all the parts on half the album that Brian normally […]
Keith Richards about the Beatles performing, or not (1969):“I think it’s impossible for them to do a tour. Mick has said it before, but it’s worth repeating . . . the Beatles […]
Rare! Keith and the Winos perform Little Walter’s CRAZY MIXED UP WORLD at Meadowlands Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, New Jersey, Dec. 17 1988
A killer performance! Keith joins Jerry Lee Lewis on Hank Williams’ ‘Your Cheatin’ Heart’ (Salute!, US TV, July 16 1983)
Keith Richards on interacting with Ronnie Wood onstage (1983)“If he drops a cigarette I’ll play his bit, and we’ll realize later that I’ve covered for him or he’s covered for me. And […]
Keith Richards ‘Stripped’ interview, TV, late 1995
Ronnie Wood on Keith Richards’ role in the band:“In other bands they follow the drummer. The Stones follow Keith, and they always have.”
MTV special aired on Oct. 26 1988, featuring Keith interview by Kurt Loder, footage from the shooting of the ‘Take It So Hard’ video, Waddy Wachtel and Ivan Neville interviews, footage from […]
Keith Richards on the differences in playing with Taylor, Jones and Wood (1983)“It was much harder to get a Rolling Stones sound with Mick Taylor. It was much more lead and rhythm, […]
Keith Richards on the last night of the Stones’ 1975 tour:“I’ve had two showers and one bath since the start of the tour and I still smell sweeter than Jagger.”
Keith Richards on Brian Jones going to court (1968):“It didn’t hit me for months because I hadn’t seen him a lot. The only time we’d seen him was down at the courthouse, […]
Keith Richards and Mick Jagger on ‘Under My Thumb’ and songs putting girls down:Keith: “Songs like Under My Thumb and Stupid Girl were all a spin-off from our environment… hotels, and too […]
*New Musical Express, England, May 13 196
Keith Richards on making a solo album (1975):“I’m not interested in solo albums. All these bands splintering up for individual members to record their own stuff seems pointless. First you come up […]
Back in 1975 the Rolling Stones played a July 4th concert to a crowd of 50,000 in Memphis. The morning of the fifth, Keith Richards, Ron Wood, bodyguard Jim Callaghan and a […]
Keith Richards about the Some Girls album:“It’s another one of those impossible things to put your finger on because it was a great studio, first time that we’d worked with Kimsey, who […]
Keith Richards on sex (1977):“If you’re gonna be in a band, you can’t sit in the studio the whole time… I’d like to do more of the only thing I can do […]
Keith Richards on dressing (1964):“I have two suits and five jackets. Don’t buy much. I’d rather save the money.”
Keith Richards on having brain surgery (2007):“All in all, the experience was quite interesting. I can never forget my voice echoing round the room in New Zealand. The doctor that was taking […]
Keith Richards about Bill Wyman’s second solo album (1976):“I don’t mind Bill doing one album but I don’t see the point of copping it a second time. You don’t make the same […]
Keith Richards and Mick Jagger on the Stones’ reactions to the Beatles:Keith: “Brian wanted to be a pop star the minute he saw the Beatles. He got left behind in the crush […]
Keith Richards about Bob Dylan’s influence on songs:“Obviously. I mean, it goes without saying. Dylan came along and released everyone from that whole three-minute thing, not to mention making it unnecessary to […]
Feb. 24, 2012: Apollo Theatre, NYC. Keith performs at the ‘Howlin’ for Hubert’ tribute concert (for Hubert Sumlin) along with guests Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Billy Gibbons, Elvis Costello, James Cotton, Susan […]
Keith Richards on admiring Mick Jagger (2009):“I admire the man. I was reading a letter I’d written to an aunt of mine, where I’m telling her I’ve just met this guy that […]
Keith Richards sobre la vida del rock and roll:“Esta es la vida del rock’n’roll, y tuviste que inventarla sobre la marcha. No había ningún libro de texto que dijera cómo operar esta […]
Keith Richards on songwriting (1966):“Future? Know something? I never even think about it. Today’s what counts. Ambitions? Things are fine now. But I want to keep on writing songs with Mick. It’s […]
Keith Richards on living in a bad neighborhood when he was young:“I moved into a tough neighborhood when I was about 10. I used to be with Mick before that… we used […]
Keith Richards on “being a better Rolling Stone” (1988):“Well, I’ve always been a Rolling Stone, from the start of… if you want to call it my professional career. And I never wanted […]
Keith has always been a huge dog lover. Among many stories, while on tour in the US in the ’60s, a fan gave him a Collie, whom he later named ‘Ratbag’. When […]
*Melody Maker, England, June 22 1968
January 1979: Keith records a few tracks with reggae group Black Uhuru at Channel One Studios, Kingston, Jamaica. Among them, “Shine Eye Gal” was the only one officially released, which showed up […]
Keith Richards on wanting to become a musician:“I used to pose in front of the mirror at home, I was hopeful. The only thing I was lacking was a bit of bread […]
Keith Richards on playing with the New Barbarians (1979):“The thing about being in the Stones – and baby, when you’re in the Stones, you’re in the Stones – you don’t get that […]
Keith and Elvis Costello playing Chuck Berry’s ‘Promised Land’, PEN New England Awards, John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Boston, Feb. 26 2012
7 de abril de 1962: Mick Jagger y Keith Richards se encuentran con Brian Jones por primera vez después de un espectáculo del grupo Blues Incorporated en el Ealing Jazz Club, en […]
April 7, 1962: Mick and Keith met Brian for the first time after a show by Blues Incorporated at the Ealing Jazz Club, in Ealing, West London. At the time they met […]
*Trouser Press magazine, USA, July 1979
Keith Richards about the Spring ’74 sessions (1974):“We finished off writing the songs that hadn’t been completed lyricwise, because a lot of them had been written in a very loose framework to […]
Keith’s legendary country home in West Wittering, Sussex, England, which he bought in early 1966 for £20,000. The house was built in the 15th century, with a moat around it. A few […]
Keith joins The Faces on I’D RATHER GO BLINDKilburn State Gaumont Theatre, London, England, Dec. 23 1974
Keith Richards, about his relationship with Mick Jagger:“There’s this perception that Mick and I are always fighting. Most of it is very smooth sailing. Every time we stumble across the odd spat, […]
Keith Richards on death:“I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.”
*The Examiner, England, Oct. 25 1978
Feb. 23, 1984: Keith joins Buster Poindexter (formerly David Johansen, New York Dolls’ frontman) onstage at Tramp’s, in New York City, playing two songs: Take Out Some Insurance/ Rocket 88
A “killer” performance! Keith joins Jerry Lee Lewis on Chuck Berry’s ‘Little Queenie’ (Salute!, US TV, July 16 1983
“Adrenaline is the most amazing thing we have,” Richards told an interviewer in 1992. Indeed, his ability to go without sleep is almost beyond belief. He recorded “Before They Make Me Run,” […]
Keith on ‘Friday Night Videos’ (NBC, US TV), March 1984. Originally filmed in February that year.
Feb. 23, 1984: Keith joins Buster Poindexter (formerly David Johansen, New York Dolls’ frontman) onstage at Tramp’s, in New York City, playing two songs: Take Out Some Insurance/ Rocket 88
Keith explains why Bill Wyman left the Stones (MTV interview 1993)
*Gig magazine, USA, Oct. 1977
Keith about music as art: “You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.”
Keith on the band’s shows (1994): “On any given night, we’re still a damn good band. And on some nights, maybe even the best band in the world. So screw the press […]
Keith Richards about getting the Stones together (2012):“The Stones are amazing that way, their chemistry and their energy when they get together. The hard bit with the Stones is getting them together. […]
Mick, Keith and Ronnie relaxed interview, Paris 1976
Keith Richards about not touring behind ‘Dirty Work’ (1986):“Dirty Work I built pretty much on the same idea as Some Girls, in that it was made with the absolute idea that it […]
Keith Richards on playing with sober Ronnie Wood (2015):“Well, me and Ronnie always have a laugh, whenever and whereever. When he said, I’m straightening up, I said, That will be an interesting […]
Keith Richards on recording the Stones’ first album:“Many of the English punk records sound like our early records and that is very hard to achieve nowadays with sophisticated technology, 24-track studios. We […]
Keith Richards and the X-Pensive Winos, ‘HOW I WISH’ Orpheum Theater, Boston, Feb. 13 1993 (original Japanese TV broadcast)
March 11, 1967: Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg fly down to Tangier, Morocco, where they join Brian Jones. The group then drives down to stay in Marrakesh.
Mick Jagger about touring without Keith (1977):“Would we tour without Keith if he was in jail for a long time? Yeah, I should say so… Obviously we wouldn’t if Keith was only […]
Keith Richards on his current drug diet (2007):“Drugs I’m on now, the shit I’ve got to take because of the brain job, Dilantin. Means you can’t take cocaine any more. Which is […]
Jamaican reggae artist who did backup vocals on the song ‘Dance’ (from the Emotional Rescue album, 1980) In 1981, Romeo released an LP titled HOLDING OUT MY LOVE TO YOU, which featured […]
June 11, 1986: Keith is interviewed and performs for Friday Night Videos (U.S. TV) at studios in New York City, backed by Paul Schaffer and Marcus Miller.
Keith Richards about trying sobriety (2018):“I’m not saying I’m definitely off all of this (alcohol). In six months’ time, I might be on it again. But at the moment, for a couple […]
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on The Old Grey Whistle Test in the 70’sInterviews by Bob Harris
Keith Richards on Stones songs or Keith songs (2015):“I just write songs. If the Stones were ready to record around the same time… Some of them were actually hanging around, ideas from […]
Keith and the Winos play Eddie Cochran’s ‘Something Else’, Orpheum Theater, Boston, Feb. 13 1993 (original Japanese TV broadcast)
Keith Richards and Charlie Watts about health habits (2008):Keith: “We love what we do, simple as that. We were the whipping hounds, you know, but that’s calmed down. Now we’re the wrinkled […]
Keith Richards on life on the road (1974):“I can’t live without being on the road. Every minute spent off the road I either turn into an alcoholic or a junkie ’cause I’ve […]
Keith Richards about going solo (1987):“The last thing I ever wanted to do was to break this band up and equally the last thing I had ever wanted to do was to […]
*Hit Parader magazine, USA, 1994
Keith Richards on Brian Jones: “He was one of those people who are so beautiful in one way, and such an asshole in another.”*Photo by Bob Bonis
Following the disbanding of his band Grin in 1974, American rock musician, recording artist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Nils Lofgren (most remembered as a member of Neil Young’s Crazy Horse and Bruce Springsteen’s […]
Keith Richards about his school days:“In junior school they start grading you each school year, each section of kids into three sections, fast, average, and slow. When you’re eleven you take an […]
Keith Richards about U2 beating the Stones (2011):” I don’t know and I don’t care. So what? U2 made a few mill more, or maybe not by the time the gross is […]
Keith going to court, and then leaving court in 1977, after the Toronto drug bust (silent footage)
Keith Richards, about the Stones going on (2007):“I don’t think you could get these guys to do it just for money. Yeah, it takes a lot of money to do and you’re […]
Keith Richards, about the Stones being ‘not a nostalgia band’ (1997):“Nobody in the band ever talks about the band’s longevity amongst themselves or puts their finger on it. I think some of […]
*New Musical Express, Dec. 6 1969
Keith Richards, about being hit by rock & roll and Chuck Berry:“I was 12 or 13 in 1957 when rock and roll first really hit and, as you know, up to that […]
Keith on Peter Tosh’s murder (1987): “I was shocked that it didn’t happen a lot sooner. He threatened to do the same thing to me. I let him use my house years […]
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards about the unreleased 1972 ‘Cocksucker Blues’ movie (2008):Mick: “I wouldn’t mind releasing it. It’s fine. That’s a good movie. It didn’t come out – but that’s a […]
Keith Richards about Ian Stewart:“I left art school and I didn’t even bother to get a job. We were still kids. Mick was still serious, he thought he was, everyone told him […]
Keith Richards and the X-Pensive Winos, ‘RUNNIN’ TOO DEEP’ Orpheum Theater, Boston, Feb. 13 1993 (original Japanese TV broadcast)
Keith Richards about the 1967 bust and Morocco:“We had just started to turn on to acid. Yeah, we had picked it up in America in ‘66, on that last tour in the […]
Keith Richards on himself: “About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I’m good at. I know what I ain’t. I’m always hoping to surprise […]
Keith Richards about Ronnie Wood joining the Stones (1975):“You know with Ronnie we seem to be able to get back to the original idea of the Stones, when Brian was with us […]
*Zigzag magazine, England, Nov. 1 1974
Keith Richards and the X-Pensive Winos, ‘999’ Orpheum Theater, Boston, Feb. 13 1993 (original Japanese TV broadcast)
Keith Richards about the Stones’ first American gig:“Actually our first ever American gig was in San Bernardino. It was a straight gas, man. They all knew the songs and they were all […]
Keith Richards’ famous blue Bentley. which he acquired in 1965. Richards purchased the car in 1965 and nicknamed the car “Blue Lena’’ after jazz singer Lena Horne. He later had the car […]
Mick, Bill, Ronnie and Keith interviews, Japanese TV 1990
Keith Richards about his tensions with Mick Jagger (1988):“If things are perceived as a power struggle, then Mick’s automatically gonna go against anything I propose, ’cause it’s my idea. But to me […]
BBC2 documentary to mark the release of Keith Richards’ autobiography ‘Life’, 2010
Keith Richards on the Rolling Stones’ potential (2015):“Well, I’m not sure I’d say mission accomplished yet. But I’m very comfortable playing with the Stones at this end of the spectrum, you know? […]
Keith Richards and the X-Pensive Winos, ‘Locked Away’ Orpheum Theater, Boston, Feb. 13 1993 (original Japanese TV broadcast)
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on touring Europe (1982):Mick: “We don’t make any money is one of the reasons we don’t tour Europe frequently. And life is only so long… And – […]
College Keith attended after being expelled from Dartford Technical School. Classmate Dick Taylor also attended along Keith.
Rare footage of Keith and Anita in Cannes, France, May 1967
Keith Richards about touring the world (2014):“Every country is different and you do come away with distinct memories of different places, you know? I can’t say that everything isn’t a blur. That’s […]
Keith Richards about early blues recordings: “Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on […]
Keith Richards on Mick Jagger (1981): “It’s a true friendship when you can bash somebody over the head and not be told, ‘You’re not my friend anymore.’ That’s a true friendship. You […]
*Circus magazine, USA, Sept. 29 1977
Back in 1998, Keith was at his home library standing on a chair trying to reach a book when he slipped. Many tomes came pouring down on top of him, leading to […]
*Hit Parader magazine, USA, Apr. 1975
Keith Richards about himself (1964): “What would I have become if I hadn’t joined the Stones? A layabout, but a very high-class one.”
Keith Richards and the X-Pensive Winos, ‘GIMME SHELTER’ Orpheum Theater, Boston, Feb. 13 1993 (original Japanese TV broadcast)
Keith Richards on Mick Jagger: “It’s very hard to be Mick’s friend despite how much you want to be ‘cause he never opens up. He just doesn’t.”
Keith Richards, about ‘being The Rolling Stones’ (2008):“Once we’re up there, it’s let’s go, we’re The Rolling Stones, man, we want to give them the best show we’ve got and we want […]
*Creem magazine, USA, Dec. 1978
Keith Richards and the X-Pensive Winos, ‘Time Is On My Side’ (feat. Sarah Dash) Orpheum Theater, Boston, Feb. 13 1993 (original Japanese TV broadcast)
(*Photo taken from the Bob Bonis Archive) Mick Jagger and Keith Richards about World War II:Mick: “A lot of children, like in the United States, don’t remember the real horror of World […]
Keith about the high society (1973): “Personally I just don’t want to know about ’em. I mean, how they get in there and why they’re there in the first place, I don’t […]
Keith Richards on the Stones in 1966: “All we wanted was to catch up on everything we hadn’t been able to do. Although we made money we were still living in rented […]
Keith Richards about ‘not being’ a Rolling Stone (1988):“Well, I’ve always been a Rolling Stone, from the start of… if you want to call it my professional career. And I never wanted […]
Keith Richards, on being stylish: “You don’t find a style. A style finds you.”
Keith, on life: “To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.”
Keith Richards on going back to the blues (1968):“Around 1966 or so, after 3 or 4 years of constantly being on the road, rocking the Rolling Stones, I took a little time […]
Keith remembers being punched by Chuck Berry, The Tonight Show, Sept. 9 2014
Keith Richards on the Stones (1993):“It’s kind of like an adventure, the Stones. You can’t give up now. Once you’re in, you take it to the end. If you got off the […]
May 31, 1989: The Armory, NYC, USA. Keith Richards and the X-Pensive Winos perform on at the International Rock Awards ceremony, where he receives a Living Legend Award. Keith gets the Living […]
Keith Richards, about being Keith Richards (2008): “I mean, I got me dogs, me kids. I go out and garden occasionally, depending on the time of year. Everybody lives, man. It’s the […]
Keith Richards talks with Bob Harris on the Old Grey Whistle Test (BBC 2, UK TV, Oct. 1 1974), a few days before the release of the Stones’ IT’S ONLY ROCK’N’ROLL album.
Dec. 18, 1943: KEITH RICHARDS, born on this day to Doris and Herbert Richards (at Livingstone Hospital, in Dartford, Kent, England) aka ‘The Human Riff’, guitarist, singer, songwriter and member of some […]
Keith inducts Chuck Berry during the ‘1st Annual Rock’n Roll Hall Of Fame’ ceremony at the Waldorf Hotel, in New York City, later jamming onstage with Neil Young, John Fogerty, Jerry Lee […]
Keith Richards on being raised (1971):“Working class. English working class . . . struggling, thinking they were middle class. Moved into a tough neighborhood when I was about ten. I used to […]
New York City singer and poet whose 1980 debut CATHOLIC BOY was originally supposed to be released on Rolling Stones Records (which featured Bobby Keys as guest on the song “City Drops […]
Keith Richards, about music: “Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.”
Classic Keith, on drugs (1974): “I gave up drugs when the doctor told me l had six months to live. I mean, if you’re gonna get wasted, get wasted elegantly.“
Keith, on fame: “To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something […]
Mick Taylor, about Keith arguing with Mick Jagger (1972): “I nearly saw Mick and Keith have a fight in a seafood restaurant in Seattle. Keith was really pissed off ’cause Jagger had […]
Keith on John Lennon (1978): “Hollywood is the end of the line for so many people. It’s a killer and if you’re weak you can be sure it’ll get to you. It’s […]
In 1982, Keith was on the verge of making his long-awaited acting debut, but it was never was concluded. He was tentatively set to star in a movie version of the James […]
1972 film planned by Kenneth Anger, who cast Mick as Lucifer, and Keith as Beelzebub (Lucifer’s glimmer twin). Anger felt that Keith, Anita, and Brian were witches. The film was not made […]
Beatles song, recorded at EMI Studios, London, on June 25 1967, on which Mick and Keith provided backup vocals. Mick, Keith and Marianne Faithfull joined the festivities when the Beatles performed this […]
Keith Richards about the Stones’ time at Muscle Shoals Studio in December of 1969, where they recorded Brown Sugar, Wild Horses and You Gotta Move : “I thought it was one of […]
Keith, on changing his last name to Richard and then back to Richards: “It made me sick – my name’s Keith Richards. It hardly makes it against Howlin’ Wolf or Muddy Waters, […]
‘7th Rock’n Roll Hall Of Fame’ induction at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City, where Keith gave a speech before inducting Leo Fender. Later on he was part of the All […]
Keith, about arguing with Mick (1981): “There’s always been periods like that with Mick and I. But there’s always the opposite periods of total cooperation and good will, almost religious fervor as […]
Mick and Keith interview by Earl ‘Chinna’ Smith, (Rockers 80 TV) Recorded at Electric Lady Studios, New York, Dec. 1979
Keith Richards on having had surgery (2006): “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.”
Keith Richards, about cleaning up for the tour (1989): “The heavy drugs are out, of course. I’d be an idiot – probably wouldn’t be here – if I hadn’t cut them out. […]
Keith Richards on being in a band: “There’s something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It’s really teamwork, one […]
Keith Richards about ‘The Rolling Stones II’ (1994):“Keeping a band together this long, it was bound to hit a rock patch somewhere. And when that happens to most bands, that’s usually it. […]
Keith Richards, on reconciliating with Mick Jagger (1988): “I was trying to keep the band together, but now maybe I do feel that this breathing space is a good thing for the […]
Keith Richards, on heavy metal (2010): “If you want heavy metal, listen to John Lee Hooker, listen to that motherfucker play. That’s heavy metal. That’s armour!”
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on Mick’s first performances:Mick: “I used to play Saturday night shows with all these different little groups. If I could get a show, I would do it. […]
Keith, on music: “After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.”
Keith on being lazy and creating (1993): “I’m very prone to laziness when I get the chance. But I’ve realized that the laziness is part of the whole process. Sometimes it’s like: […]
Keith Richards on experiencing life: “We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.”
Keith, Mick and Ronnie about the No Security album (1998):Keith: “We were under certain restrictions from the record company as to what tracks they didn’t want – tracks that had been on […]
Keith on working ‘under the influence’: “When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It […]
Very rare footage of Keith attending the premiere of the ‘Cul de Sac’ movie at the Cameo-Poly cinema, London, June 2 1966 From the Kinolibrary Archive Film collection
Keith, on being influenced by Chuck Berry (2017): “Over the years, we’ve deliberately tried not to ‘do a Chuck Berry’, so to speak. But on every one, Chuck’s influence is there, for […]
Keith on the future for the Stones’ recording career (1993):“I just don’t want to see the Stones grasping hungrily to be up to date and have hit records, I just want the […]
Nick Lowe about the night Keith joined his band Rockpile onstage for Chuck Berry’s ‘Let It Rock’ at The Bottom Line, NYC, Oct. 25 1978 (article originally published in The Word magazine […]
Keith on doctors: “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.”
Charlie on Keith (1973): “I don’t really have that much to say, I mean, if you want to talk about the Rolling Stones, you should talk to Keith, who, I think, embodies […]
Keith on Paul McCartney (2010): “John and I knew each other quite well, and George and Ringo, but Paul and I had never spent much time together. We were really pleased to […]
Keith, when he was asked about the Stones penchant for “writing songs about sex and drugs and rock’n ‘roll” (1983): “We don’t know much about anything else. It seems that and violence […]
Keith on the Beatles (2016): “Our ambition was to be this really hip, cool blues – the best blues band in London. That was the size of the ambition… Until suddenly: boom! […]
Keith, about art: “I don’t think that rock’n’roll songwriters should worry about Art. I don’t think it comes into it. A lot of it is just craft anyway, especially after doing it […]
Keith, on growing up: “I’m not getting old, I’m evolving.”
Keith, on being a musician: “You don’t start to play your guitar thinking you’re going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.”
Keith, about coming up with the name Rolling Stones: “Brian came up with the name It was a phone call – which cost money – and we were down to pennies… We […]
Keith, on being a musician: “I consider my job is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort […]
Keith on Rolling Stones fans: “When you’re supported by millions all over the world, you can either go nuts, or try to feed off the goodwill.”
Keith, on playing instruments: “I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.“
Keith on Brian: “There are some people who you know aren’t going to get old… Brian and I agreed that he, Brian, wouldn’t live very long… I remember saying, ‘You’ll never make […]
Keith, on his differences with Mick: “I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy […]
Keith, about the legend he had undergone a heroin addiction cure in Switzerland through a system changing his blood (1973): “Someone asked me how I cleaned up, so I told them I […]
Keith, on Jimi Hendrix: “One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart – how I wish he was still around – almost inadvertently ruined guitar. Because he was the […]
Keith on Charlie (1979): “Charlie’s always there, but he doesn’t want people to know. There’s very few drummers like that. Everybody thinks Mick and Keith are the Rolling Stones. If Charlie wasn’t […]
Mick and Keith, on meeting each other:Mick: “I can’t remember when I didn’t know (Keith). We lived one street away; his mother knew my mother, and we were at primary school together […]
Keith, after falling from a ladder in his Connecticut library, breaking three ribs and puncturing a lung (1998): “I was looking for Leonardo da Vinci’s book on anatomy. I learned a lot […]
Keith, about getting offered drugs (1988): “It happens all the time. ‘Here man, you gotta try this shit. It’s real good…’ Even in London. They think it’s going to impress you. But […]
Keith, on ‘Far Away Eyes’ (1978): “I know Mick listens to , and used to, a lot of Merle Haggard from Bakersfield, California…When you think about it, he even sings Bakersfield in […]
Keith on religion (2010): “Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.”
Keith on music: “Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. […]
Keith, on playing blues: “If you don’t know the blues… there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.”
Keith, on starting to record ‘Main Offender’ (1992): “With Steve Jordan, he’s around the corner. I’m at this place, or he’s at my place. It’s a very close thing – I’ve got […]
Bill and Keith about pre-Elvis music:Bill: “Before I took up an instrument I heard something that really did astound me: Les Paul and Mary Ford singing The World Is Waiting For the […]
Keith, on the band getting nostalgic (1997): “Nobody in the band ever talks about the band’s longevity among themselves or puts their finger on it. I think some of it is just […]
Keith on life between Stones tours (2002):“I made a determined effort after the last tour to get up with the family. Which for me is a pretty impressive goal. But I did […]
Keith, about working: “You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.”
Keith, on rock’n’roll: “Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.”
Keith, about Mick’s bad memory (2009):“I would never take Mick’s recollection of anything seriously… That is why Mick can never write a book. He can’t remember anything. I mean, he once, many […]
Mick and Keith on Buddy Holly:Mick: “To English people Buddy Holly was an enormous inspiration. Therein lies the difference because he was a songwriter, which Elvis wasn’t. And he wrote very simple […]
Keith and Charlie, about Darryl Jones instead of Bill Wyman (1997)Keith: “I miss Bill. I turn around and say, Where’s that skinny white guy? Instead there’s a big spade. Hey Darryl! But […]
July 16, 1983: Keith joins Jerry Lee Lewis on the Salute! TV show in Los Angeles, hosted by Dick Clark, doing 4 songs:Your Cheatin’ Heart/ Little Queenie/ High School Confidential/ Whole Lotta […]
Keith, on touring with Bo Diddley in 1963 (2008):“Watching Bo Diddley was university for me. Every set was twenty minutes long in those days. When he came off, if he had two […]
Mick and Keith about doing Live Aid (1985):Mick: “I did it to raise a lot of money. That was the main thing, to draw attention to the hunger in the world. Down […]
July 13, 1985: Both Mick and Keith (and Ronnie) performs onstage for the first time in three years, although separately, at the the Live Aid benefit concert at JFK Stadium, in Philadelphia. […]
Keith, on reading (2010): “When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to […]
Mick and Keith, about going out and play (2005):Mick: “You go out there and put yourself on the line and you make sure you’re as good as you can possibly be. You […]
Keith, about snorting his father’s ashes (2007):“I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow, and… Yeah, my dad wouldn’t have […]
Keith, on songwriting: “What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people’s hearts. You want to plant yourself there, or […]
Keith Richards on rock’n’roll life: “This is the rock’n’roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.”
In late 1995, Keith headed to his home in Jamaica intending to holiday, but instead he ended up holding recording sessions with local Rastafarian musicians and friends at his home in Point […]
Keith Richards, Bonnnie Raitt and Los Lobos are among the well-known musicians who have lent their talents to a benefit album saluting founding NRBQ singer/bassist Joey Spampinato, who’s currently battling cancer. As […]
En el 50 aniversario de uno de los discos más emblemáticos de la historia del rock, el tercero en editarse dentro de lo que es tradicionalmente considerado por muchos “el período más […]
Según lo publicado por varios medios de prensa estadounidenses, una cucaracha lleva el nombre de Keith Richards. La peculiar situación fue en honor a su cumpleaños número 77, el cual celebró el […]
Durante una reciente entrevista en radio del 6 de octubre (se puede escuchar en https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–c2lAxXPx4 ), el guitarrista de los Rolling Stones brindó una actualización sobre su situación actual, refiriéndose a la […]
Ya lo sabemos: Brian no era lo que se dice precisamente adepto a dar notas. En lo que respecta a entrevistas gráficas (en diarios o revistas), las únicas que solía brindar era […]
Información detallada sobre la historia de la grabación de SCARLET por Martin Elliott, autor de los libros “Rolling Stones: Complete Recording Sessions 1963-1989” (1990), “The Rolling Stones: Complete Recording Sessions 1962-2002” (2002) […]
Some detailed info behind the recording of SCARLET by Martin Elliott, author of the books “Rolling Stones: Complete Recording Sessions 1963-1989” (1990), “The Rolling Stones: Complete Recording Sessions 1962-2002” (2002) and “The […]
“The Secret Jewish history of The Rolling Stones” Nota de Seth Rogovoy originalmente publicada en el sitio online de cultura judía Forward el pasado 2 de junio citando un artículo del 2014 […]
Un 3 de octubre como el de hoy, pero hace 30 años, se editaba TALK IS CHEAP, primer álbum solista de Keith Richards, grabado entre los meses de marzo de 1987 y […]
Continuando con la cadena de aniversarios, hoy nos toca el no. 37 de “1234”, o tal el nombre que Ronnie Wood eligió para titular a su cuarto álbum solista, que salió a […]
Rolling Stones “On Air” (Interscope, 2017Ahora que las bóvedas del tiempo finalmente se dignaron a parir, ahora que el reloj que no para de girar sigue acrecentando el pasado minuto a […]
And on the eight day God created The Dirty Strangers. Or something. Because the story of one of the most particular London cult bands of the last three-odd decades actually had to […]
Y en el octavo día Dios creó a los Dirty Strangers. O algo así, porque, a decir verdad, la historia de una de los grupos londinenses de culto más particulares de las […]
“¿Te querés quedar a almorzar con nosotros?” ¿Cómo decirle no a semejante invitación cuando la propuesta parte de la mismísima Anita Pallenberg? Sucedió el año pasado, durante los días de la hasta […]
Corría la primavera boreal de 1965 y los Rolling Stones estaban de gira por los Estados Unidos. Aquella noche del 7 de mayo la banda se alojaba en el motel Gulf, en […]
Creo que me topé por primera vez con las palabras “Chuck Berry” cuando tenía 9 o 10 años. Como buen curioso prematuro, ese estado impertinente me llevó a interesarme en el rock […]
Allá por 1989, en momentos en que los Rolling Stones cumplían poco más de un cuarto de siglo de existencia, el bajista Bill Wyman, que para entonces aún era miembro del grupo, […]
Rock y política. ¿Les suena? No es ninguna novedad, la conexión entre la música y aquello mejor definido como la “ciencia que trata del gobierno y la organización de las sociedades humanas” […]
Publicado en Evaristo Cultural el 17 de septiembre de 2015 “Siento como que todo el mundo me otorgó una especie de licencia diciéndome ‘Seguí Keith, hacelo, porque nosotros no podemos hacerlo, hacelo […]
Publicado en Evaristo Cultural el 4 de junio de 2015 Corría la primavera boreal de 1965 y los Rolling Stones estaban de gira por los Estados Unidos. Aquella noche del 7 de mayo […]
Publicado en Evaristo Cultural el 2 de enero de 2014 No debería resultar para nada extraño ingresar a la habitación de hotel de Andrew Loog Oldham y descubrirlo tendido en la cama hablando al […]
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