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Tuesday, April 3, 2007 · Last updated 1:20 p.m. PT

Keith Richards: 'I snorted my father'
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Keith Richards has acknowledged consuming a raft of illegal substances in his time, but this may top them all.

In comments published Tuesday, April 3, 2007, 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.

LONDON -- 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.

― rockcrit88, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

His father was a very heavy drinker and smoker also and he just died five years ago. This longevity thing really is all in the genes.

― Mark Rich@rdson, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

I wasn't really weirded out until I realized he did this just 5 years ago.

― darin, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

TMI

― nabisco, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

Smoking him would have been classier, but otherwise, i would have kind of assumed he'd do something like that.

― tremendoid, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

I would have been more impressed by some kind of suppository.

― admrl, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

Meanwhile, an urn full of cocaine was rocketed into space.

― M.V., Tuesday, 3 April 2007 23:48 (eighteen years ago)

~~Dad~~ Cocaine is a helluva drug...

― NYCNative, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 23:50 (eighteen years ago)

if it's not on youtube, what the fuck do i care

― cutty, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 23:50 (eighteen years ago)

if it's not on youtube, ~~what the fuck do i care~~it probably didn't even happen.

― Cunga, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 01:37 (eighteen years ago)

anyone else doubt this is true? if i was keith richards i'd say shit like that all the time just to piss people off. maybe that's because i'm an asshole though.

― Reatards Unite, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

& KR isnae?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

I'd say stuff like this to piss people off too, and especially if some NME nincompoop decided that "what's the strangest thing you've tried to snort" was a good question.

― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

2002!

― deej, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

has his body utterly normalized cocaine intake? he's living off it now

― deej, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

A buddy of mine made exactly this joke a few years ago. Tabloids can be willfully humourless at times.

― everything, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

Hope Keef doesn't expect his OWN son to make it a tradition after he finally snuffs it. (Pun truly unintended)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

I'd say stuff like this to piss people off too, and especially if some NME nincompoop decided that "what's the strangest thing you've tried to snort" was a good question.

Indeed. Some reporters are begging to be fucked with.

― Tantrum The Cat, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

This is what happens when April Fools falls on a Sunday.

People be thinking these stories are true.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

so was this just an april fools gag?

― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

I heard on the radio that he said it was a joke.

― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

eh, whatever. either way, it would've been much cooler if he hacked off, cremated, and snorted his own leg.

― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

if it's a joke, it's even more rock and roll.

― Mark Rich@rdson, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

comedy being the new ...

― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article7086815.ece

so. cool.

― iago g., Wednesday, 7 April 2010 01:21 (fifteen years ago)

HERO

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 03:04 (fifteen years ago)

An interview a few years back showed him intelligently citing Gibbon and Evelyn Waugh. Dude's smart.

― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 03:08 (fifteen years ago)

Mick's favorite book is Graham Greene's Travels with My Aunt. I would say M&K more intellectual in their private lives than John and Paul, no?

― iago g., Wednesday, 7 April 2010 04:17 (fifteen years ago)

HERO

― Bow Before Zeezrom!!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:53 (fifteen years ago)

Mick's favorite book is Graham Greene's Travels with My Aunt. I would say M&K more intellectual in their private lives than John and Paul, no?
― iago g., Tuesday, April 6, 2010 9:17 PM (Yesterday)

oh britishers classistpaws...

― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 17:05 (fifteen years ago)

I have it on good authority that John hasn't so much as picked up a book in years.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 17:08 (fifteen years ago)

He has declared: “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 you. The public library is a great equaliser.”

― kulinary gangsta (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 17:10 (fifteen years ago)

― I don't need a bonghit. (ctrl-s), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 17:30 (fifteen years ago)

five years pass...

What rap did that was impressive was to show there are so many tone-deaf people out there. All they need is a drum beat and somebody yelling over it and they’re happy. There’s an enormous market for people who can’t tell one note from another.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/keith-richards-plenty-plenty-article-1.2346653

― niels, Wednesday, 9 September 2015 10:04 (nine years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/91sn32Q.jpg?fb

― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 9 September 2015 10:08 (nine years ago)

― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 September 2015 03:31 (nine years ago)

eight years pass...

A pretty on-the-nose cover in every way, but not bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NcJvi5TYEk

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 1 March 2024 15:26 (one year ago)

Wow. Jagger's discussed "Heroin" and the influence of the Velvets on his writing, but is this the first time Keef ever has?

― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 March 2024 15:31 (one year ago)

Who better to sing this song tbh?

― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 1 March 2024 15:48 (one year ago)

This is kinda perfect actually

― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 1 March 2024 15:52 (one year ago)

i love it

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 March 2024 17:18 (one year ago)

He does really sound good singing it.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 2 March 2024 04:41 (one year ago)

yeah he nails it
and the rhythm section is giving some great bounce

nice one Keef <3

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 March 2024 05:00 (one year ago)

if there's an album coming behind this in the same vibe i'm 100% onboard

― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 2 March 2024 05:52 (one year ago)

It's from an upcoming Lou tribute album from Light In The Attic:

https://www.stereogum.com/2253967/new-lou-reed-tribute-album-features-keith-richards-angel-olsen-afghan-whigs-more/music/

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 2 March 2024 05:59 (one year ago)

I really want to hear Rickie Lee Jones' "Walk On The Wild Side"
bandcamp here: https://loureed.bandcamp.com/album/the-power-of-the-heart-a-tribute-to-lou-reed

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 2 March 2024 09:11 (one year ago)

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