LONDON (AP) - Keith Richards has acknowledged consuming a raft of illegal substances in his time, but this may top them all. In comments published Tuesday, the 63-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist said he had snorted his father's ashes mixed with cocaine.
"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," Richards was quoted as saying by British music magazine NME.
"He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared," he said. "... It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."
Richards' father, Bert, died in 2002, at 84.
Richards, one of rock's legendary wild men, told the magazine that his survival was the result of luck, and advised young musicians against trying to emulate him.
"I did it because that was the way I did it. Now people think it's a way of life," he was quoted as saying.
"I've no pretensions about immortality," he added. "I'm the same as everyone ... just kind of lucky.
"I was No. 1 on the 'who's likely to die' list for 10 years. I mean, I was really disappointed when I fell off the list," Richards said.
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NaturalResources
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Cmon Juice.... You can't post this article and not include the picture that comes with it.
T e x
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well...humph...waddya know...he's cleaned up some...last pic I remember, he looked like he got dragged through a Jamaican garage sale...
NaturalResources
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LOL... Cleaned up some?
I can't figure out what the metal looking thing in his hair is...
T e x
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for real...I can't if it was in Rolling Stone magazine or what, but he musta *paid* somebody big bucks to weave/clip/attach...like about 1 1/2 pounds of stuff into his hair and ears, etc... looked like a charcater Tim Burton rejected, thinking no one would believe it...
NaturalResources
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Hahaha.... I think you are on to something Tex.
Gordon Bennett
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Better snorted than blown, I say...
T e x
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quote:Originally posted by NaturalResources: Hahaha.... I think you are on to something Tex.
lolololol....nice find
NaturalResources
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Didn't find it... made it. The joys of Photoshop...
T e x
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ahh ha ha... good work.
urnso77
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I once saw a guy snort some chalk from a nearby pool table during a 9-ball tournament but this story just takes it to a new level.
Upside
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Does Keith Richards have any kids? Because when he dies I bet they could get one hell of a buzz or one hell of a fortune from his ashes. Wonder what the street price for a gram of Richards would be?
Gordon Bennett
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This was all just a publicity stunt that has worked REALLY well.
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