I wondered whether the one-year anniversary of Keith Richards announcing that he snorted his father’s ashes should be commemorated. I was prepared to stand firm with my decision that some things are better left in the past, but my hand has been forced. Richards, who later denied the story, has now confirmed it to Blender [...]
Keith Richards has clarified his recent comment about snorting his father’s ashes - insisting his denial was only in relation to mixing it with cocaine.
The Rolling Stones’ guitarist’s confession sparked a media frenzy earlier this year when the revelation was made in the British music magazine NME.
Richards released a statement at the time claiming that he was only joking about inhaling the ashes of his dead father Bert with the illegal drug.
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It has been claimed the Stones rocker Keith Richards 63 has snorted his father’s ashes. Richards father Bert who died in 2004 was cremated and some of his ashes were added to a bit of “blow.”It was also claimed, “It was not true” and was said as a joke.
The Rolling Stones concert tour had to be cancelled last year when Richards fell from a tree, which resulted in brain surgery. Richards said, “I wasn’t climbing a tree I was sitting on a shrub. The Stones will return to the UK in June with their A Bigger Bang Tour.
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The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has acknowledged consuming a raft of illegal substances in his time. But this may top them all.
In comments published today by the British music magazine NME, the 63-year-old musician 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 by the magazine as saying. His father, Bert, died in 2002 at the age of 84. "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."Continue reading "Keith Richards: 'I snorted my father'">
One of the world's most famous rock guitarists, Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones, has never tried to hide the fact that he did lots of cocaine and other drugs, like heroin, for many years. He almost single-handedly put the drugs behind the rock motto "sex, drugs and rock and roll."Claiming now to be drug-free, Richards said he once mixed some of his father's ashes with cocaine and snorted it. "The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," Richards, 63, told the British music magazine NME on April 2nd. His father, Bert Richards, died in 2002 at the age of 84."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."The photograph of Mr. Richard's senior (courtesy of Rock Junket) shows Keith's Dad backstage a year before his death and subsequent cremation. Something tells me this is a late April Fool's joke, or maybe Richards doesn't know what h
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