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Title	:	Life
Author	:	Keith Richards
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 564 pages
Published	:	October 26th 2010 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (first published October 10th 2010)
Categories	:	Music. Biography. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir

Life Hardcover | Pages: 564 pages

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Keith Richards was a clever kid, a talented artist, a choirboy who sang for the Queen and became an outstanding musician in one of the world's best bands. What is most on display in this book is his tremendous interest in music and musicians, not in rock, bands, money and fame - a lot of which he finds a bit of a pain but to be endured because that goes with the job. If you aren't fairly knowledgeable about music, blues in particular, there is going to be a lot of this book you are going to want to skip. What is also interesting is his drug use. We never hear the ins and outs of being a tremendously successful heroin junkie. No, the spin is always on those poor street people who will steal their own mother's wedding ring for the next fix as they are quite beyond work. Richards enjoys his drugs a lot and tells us exactly what it feels like to be high on them and how it helped his work. His main supplier is his best friend and partner in crime, the very flamboyant Freddie Sessler, a holocaust survivor and (handily) owner of pharmacies so he could supply medical grade cocaine and heroin, who travelled along with the Stones. There were other dealers to ensure that when the band arrived at their tour date, the drugs would be ready and waiting, always a difficult time for a junkie. The antics of the UK and especially US law enforcement officers to catch, entrap, imprison and get the Stones banned are hilarious as are the stories of Richards escaping them (most of the time). This is where money and being a big name helps! The story about Richards and Bobby Keys being got off a rap they had no defence against by the owner of Dole Pineapples is classic. (view spoiler)[He had first met Keith when he went into his daughter's bedroom one morning. He was very civilized about it and said to him, as one does, "If there's anything I can ever do for you..." And there was! (hide spoiler)] Richards also went cold turkey fairly often, not because he wanted to give up drugs but because he had to be clean and without the desperate need for drugs so he could enter various countries and tour with the band. These parts of the story are fairly harrowing to read, I really had no idea what cold turkey was really like but how it is very limited in time and can be endured. (Dr. Phil's Celebrity Rehab is more about Dr. Phil and the Celebrities than the rehab). When he actually decided to give up drugs, he made two attempts and that was it, gave them up thirty years ago. His sex life was a great deal less interesting than, say, Mick Jagger's,as he was the sort of man who fell passionately in love, and then did whatever he could to keep the relationship alive. Not that groupies were totally unknown to him but that sort of sex wasn't anything he ever sought out. His first marriage to the actress Anita Pallenberg fell apart due to his wife's uncontrolled (as opposed to his controlled) use of drugs, and he has been married for decades to his second wife, the model Patty Hansen, who has never used them. Essentially Keith is a man who questioned the system at every turn, but take away the surface and what you have left is a family man. His mother, a tremendously musical person herself, is in the story pretty constantly. For some years he raised his son, Marlon, alone (rather unconventionally taking him on tour), although he quite obviously cherishes all his children and has never, ever got over the loss of his baby son Tara, who died of cot death. But this man, this clever, sensitive, man, this lover of books, this chronicler of arguably the best rock band ever, this musician's musician had that other side too, the drug-taking, alcohol-sodden, irreverant, authority-bucking wild side, the man who took a lot of drugs and lived exactly as he pleased because he had the money to do so and continues to entertain us with his really great guitar licks. Rock on Keith, rock on. Although the book is ghost-written, it retains more of the voice of the author than it does of the ghost-writer which isn't always the case. But I don't recommend the audiobook. Johnny Depp, Keith's friend, reads well, but he can't sustain the right accent for long and it sounds somewhat fake with an American undertone. This might not annoy you, but it did me and I preferred the written word. _______________________________ Edit A GR friend (who wishes to remain anonymous) has sent me a really good story about Keith's son Marlon, whom my friend knew well. I've posted it in the comments, msg. 67.

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Original Title:	Life
ISBN:	0297854399 (ISBN13: 9780297854395)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.keithrichards.com/life/
Characters:	Richard Leher, Bill Gober, Dick Taylor, Dr. Bensoussan, Darryl Jones, Chrissy Kingston, Uschi Obermaier, Al Green, Phil Spector, Mr. Thompson Wooft, Dominique Tarlé, Alan Dunn, Jane Rose, Dave Jordan, Chrissie Shrimpton, Joe Seabrook, Lil Green, Ricky Nelson, Walter Yetnikoff, Locksley Whitlock, Roger Vadim, Howlin' Wolf, Tom Keylock, Lee Mohamed, Jim Price, Prince Rupert Loewenstein, Ivan Neville, Blondie Chaplin, Brion Gysin, William Rees-Mogg, Ronnie Spector, Mick Avory, Lil Wergilis, Steve Crotty, Willie Dixon, David Jacobs, Deborah Dixon, Don Was, Ivor Mairants, Bill Perks, Dr. Denber, Walter Jacobs, Rainer Langhans, Pat Hare, Cousin Kay, Pierre de Beauport, Jo Wood, Svi Horowitz, Gregorio Azar, Ricky Fataar, Acker Bilk, Marty Wilde
Literary Awards:	Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year (2011)

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A no-holds-barred autobiography from one of the original bad boys of rock & roll.Keith Richards jokes are legion, but after listning to this audio book, it's no joke acknowleding that this guy has more lives than a darn cat. Car crashes, knife fights, gun skirmishes, not to mention all the drugs, booze and jail stints -- any one of these might have put an end to any one else, but this guy just keeps on rolling.This is a long book -- and will be made longer still because if you're anything

I quote a comment made by me during my reading of this book:This book has everything to do with the typical stories of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. A truly immersive reading about a real rock band. Worth reading.And a person that immensely contributed to the emerging of The Rolling Stones as a band.Still liked the Stones!

I am tremendously impressed by this book. Keith Richards goes into great detail about his childhood, the difficulties he faced growing up, and how he became the successful musician that he is today. He writes in a natural style, revealing many personal details of his life that are touching, painfully honest and real. He recalls how he first met Mick Jaggar, and how their musical collaboration created the magic and unique style of the legendary rock group, the Rolling Stones. Many facets of the

So we will start with first things first. If you were to ask me what my recommendation would be for best rock musician biography or autobiography of all time, it would be Keith Richardss Life, hands down. Youll see why as you read the rest of this review, but in short Ill just say that its by far the most authentic and genuine take on the subject of what life is like being in the spotlight for 48 years, at the time of printing in 2010, anyway. Written with the assistance of journalist James Fox,

I started listening to the Rolling Stones back in the early 1970s. Hot Rocks (an early greatest hits collection and still one of the best by any band), Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street, Its Only Rock and Roll, etc. In terms of the group and its history, I caught them in their second wave, the one where they had morphed into the Worlds Greatest Rock and Roll Band. I saw the band once, during their Tour of the Americas tour (the one where Ron Wood joined the band). I hung with them up through

This is the Life. Believe it or not, I haven't forgotten any of it. ~Life, Keith Richards Well now, there you have it. Who'd have thunk "Keef" would have lived so long -- he certainly won't be leaving a beautiful corpse when he finally does kick off, that's for sure. And that will probably be from natural causes at this point in his life on the eve of turning seventy , but who the hell knows with this guy? Sure he's laid off the dope, but he's still managing to fall out of trees hard enough to

Growing up in Dartford for Keith was somewhere to get out of. After WWII it was pungent with horse manure & desperation and he never forgot the story that he was born in an air raid shelter. It wasnt London. It wasnt hip or cool - it was the backside of the wrong side of the tracks. But when his father Gus gave him an old wooden guitar and showed him a few chords and licks, London loomed closer. Especially after he could play Malaguena and managed to escape National Service that great