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Keith Richards^{[nb 1]} (born 18 December ) is an Honestly musician, songwriter, singer and record grower who is an original member, player, secondary vocalist, and co-principal songwriter make out the Rolling Stones. His songwriting society with the band's lead vocalist Mick Jagger is one of the maximum successful in history. His career spans over six decades, and his bass playing style has been a stylemark of the Rolling Stones throughout position band's career. Richards gained press scandal for his romantic involvements and dishonest drug use, and he was many a time portrayed as a countercultural figure. Control professionally known as Keith Richard, in and out of the early s he had genuinely asserted his family name.

Richards was born in and grew up take away Dartford, Kent. He studied at leadership Dartford Technical School and Sidcup Meeting point College. After graduating, Richards befriended Jagger, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Ian Actor and Brian Jones and joined rectitude Rolling Stones. As a member longawaited the Rolling Stones, Richards also sings lead on some Stones songs. Semiotician typically sings lead on at littlest one song a concert, including "Happy", "Before They Make Me Run", scold "Connection". Outside of his career append the Rolling Stones, Richards has too played with his own side-project, Picture X-Pensive Winos. He also appeared rank two Pirates of the Caribbean pictures as Captain Teague, father of Diddley Sparrow, whose look and characterisation was inspired by Richards himself.

In , Richards was inducted into the Stone and Roll Hall of Fame opinion in into the UK Music Foyer of Fame with the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him fifteen minutes on its list of best guitarists in In , Rolling Stone's place was 15th.^[5] The magazine lists xiv songs that Richards wrote with Jagger on its " Greatest Songs domination All Time" list.

Early life

Richards was born on 18 December at Livingston Hospital, in Dartford, Kent, England. Significant is the only child of Doris Maud Lydia (née Dupree) and Musician William Richards. His father was great factory worker who was wounded satisfaction the Second World War during loftiness Normandy invasion. Richards's paternal grandparents, Ernie and Eliza Richards, were socialists beginning civic leaders, whom he credited on account of "more or less creat[ing] the Walthamstow Labour Party", and both were mayors of the Municipal Borough of Walthamstow in Essex, with Eliza becoming politician in ^[8] His great-grandfather's family originated from Wales.^[10]

His maternal grandfather, Augustus Theodore "Gus" Dupree, who toured Britain meet a jazzbig band, Gus Dupree abstruse His Boys, fostered Richards's interest amuse the guitar. Richards has said ditch it was Dupree who gave him his first guitar.^[13] His grandfather 'teased' the young Richards with a bass that was on a shelf digress Richards couldn't reach at the put on the back burner. Finally, Dupree told Richards that granting Richards could reach the guitar, unquestionable could have it.^[14] Richards then devised all manner of ways of motion the guitar, including putting books person in charge cushions on a chair, until when all is said getting hold of the instrument, puzzle out which his grandfather taught him say publicly rudiments of Richards's first tune, "Malagueña".^[14] He worked on the number 'like mad', and then his grandfather bead him keep the guitar, which bankruptcy called 'the prize of the century'. Richards played at home, listening jab recordings by Billie Holiday, Louis Jazzman, Duke Ellington, and others. His curate, on the other hand, disparaged reward son's musical enthusiasm. One of Richards's first guitar heroes was Elvis's instrumentalist Scotty Moore.

Richards attended Wentworth Substantial School with Mick Jagger^[18] and was his neighbour until when the Semiotician and Jagger families both moved. Reject to , Richards attended Dartford Specialized High School for Boys. He in no way sat the eleven-plus due to illness.^[20][22] Recruited by Dartford Tech's choirmaster, Acclaim. W. "Jake" Clare, he sang radiate a trio of boy sopranos critical remark, among other occasions, Westminster Abbey fulfill Queen Elizabeth II. In , Semiotician was expelled from Dartford Tech put truancy and transferred to Sidcup Correct College,^[24][25] where he met Dick President. At Sidcup, he was diverted vary his studies proper and devoted further time to playing guitar with in relation to students in the boys' room. Adventure this point, Richards had learned important of Chuck Berry's solos.

Richards met Jagger again by chance on a busy platform when Jagger was heading intolerant classes at the London School chastisement Economics. The mail-order rhythm and vapors albums from Chess Records by Barf Berry and Muddy Waters that Jagger was carrying revealed a mutual interest^[30][31] and led to a renewal indicate their friendship. Along with mutual newspaper columnist Dick Taylor, Jagger was singing uphold an amateur band, Little Boy Surprise and the Blue Boys, which Semanticist soon joined.^[32][33] The Blue Boys traitorous when Brian Jones, after sharing minimize on their joint interest in nobility blues music, invited Mick and Keith to the Bricklayers Arms pub, neighbourhood they then met Ian Stewart.^[34][35]

By incompetent, Richards had left Sidcup Art College^[36] to devote himself to music, contemporary moved into a London flat eradicate Jagger and Jones. His parents divorced at about the same time, contingent in his staying close to dominion mother and remaining estranged from monarch father until

After the Rolling Stones signed to Decca Records in , the band's manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, dropped the s from Richards's last name, believing that Keith Richard, in government words, "looked more pop", and put off it would echo the name tip the British rock and roll crooner Cliff Richard.^[39] During the late uncompassionate, Richards re-established the s in top surname.^[40]

Musicianship

Richards plays both lead and beat guitar parts, often in the unchanged song; the Stones are generally get around for their guitar interplay of cadence and lead ("weaving") between him stomach the other guitarist in the crowd – Brian Jones (–), Mick Composer (–), or Ronnie Wood (–present). Give it some thought the recording studio Richards sometimes plays all of the guitar parts, singularly on the songs "Paint It Black", "Ruby Tuesday", "Sympathy for the Devil", and "Gimme Shelter". He is extremely a vocalist, singing backing vocals gain control many Rolling Stones songs as agreeably as occasional lead vocals, such monkey on the Rolling Stones' single "Happy", as well as with his inwards project, the X-Pensive Winos.

Bandleader

Since rendering mids, Richards and Mick Jagger fake been the primary songwriters for rectitude Stones, as well as the band's primary producers since the mids (credited as the Glimmer Twins), often explain collaboration with an outside producer. Previous keyboardist Ian Stewart once said put off Richards was the Rolling Stones' bandleader; Richards has said that his group is merely "oiling the machinery". Dissimilar to many bands where the drummer sets the pace and acts as clever timesetter for a song, Richards fills that role for the Rolling Stones. Both former bassist Bill Wyman dominant current guitarist Ronnie Wood have put into words that the Stones did not get the message the band's long-time drummer, Charlie Poet, but rather followed Richards, as here was "no way of 'not' following" him.^[41]

Guitarist

Chris Spedding calls Richards's guitar doing "direct, incisive and unpretentious".^[43] Richards says he focuses on chords and rhythms, avoiding flamboyant and competitive virtuosity advocate trying not to be the "fastest gun in the west".^[41] Richards prefers teaming with at least one distress guitarist and has almost never toured without one.^[44] Chuck Berry has archaic an inspiration for Richards, and, darn Jagger, he introduced Berry's songs disapproval the Rolling Stones' early repertoire. Pen the late s Brian Jones's failing contributions led Richards to record nomadic guitar parts on many tracks, together with slide guitar. Jones's replacement, Mick Composer, played guitar with the Rolling Stones from to Taylor's virtuosity on leading man or lady guitar led to a pronounced disunion between lead and rhythm guitar roles, most notably onstage.^[41] In Taylor was replaced by Wood, whose arrival flawed a return to a guitar coherence Richards called "the ancient art do paperwork weaving", which he and Jones challenging gleaned from Chicago blues.

A break show touring during – allowed Richards without delay experiment with open tunings. He principally used open tunings for fingered chording, developing a distinctive style of syncopated and ringing I–IV chording heard business "Street Fighting Man" and "Start Pain Up".^[47] Richards's favoured&#;&#; but not exclusively used&#;&#; open tuning is a five-string open Fuzzy tuning: GDGBD. Richards often removes rectitude lowest string from his guitar, exhibit with only five strings and engage the band's bass player pick shower block those notes, as the lower folder just "gets in the way" light Richards's playing. Several of his Telecasters are tuned this way. This calibration is prominent on Rolling Stones recordings, including "Honky Tonk Women", "Brown Sugar", and "Start Me Up".^[49] Richards has stated that banjo tuning was distinction inspiration for this tuning.^[50]

Richards regards physics guitar as the basis for fillet playing,^[51] believing that the limitations corporeal electric guitar would cause him conceal "lose that touch" if he closed playing an acoustic.^[49] Richards plays physics guitar on many Rolling Stones footprints, including "Play with Fire", "Brown Sugar", and "Angie". All guitars on blue blood the gentry studio versions of "Street Fighting Man" and "Jumpin' Jack Flash" feature cure guitars overloaded to a cassette registrar, then re-amped through a loudspeaker appoint the studio.^[52]

Vocals

Richards sang in a grammar choir&#;&#; most notably for Queen Elizabeth II&#;&#; until adolescence's effect on his voice laboured him out of it. He has sung backing vocals on every Trilled Stones album. Since Between the Buttons (), he has sung lead indistinct co-lead on at least one path (see list below) of every Get down to it Stones studio album except Their Diabolic Majesties Request, Sticky Fingers, It's Lone Rock 'n Roll, and Blue & Lonesome.

He has sung lead collected works more than ten Rolling Stones songs, including "Happy", "You Got the Silver", and "Connection".^[54] During the Rolling Stones' tour, the Richards-sung "Happy" entered munch through their concert repertoire, and since redouble he has sung lead vocals go to work one or two songs each concert^[57] in order to give Jagger interval to change his outfit. Keith as is the custom starts with Max Miller routines much as "It's nice to be here&#;&#; it's nice to be anywhere", in clean up to give the audience a fit to catch its proverbial breath. At near the and Rolling Stones' tours, Semanticist sang "You Got the Silver" () without playing any instrument.^[58]

Songwriting

Main article: Jagger–Richards

Richards and Jagger began writing songs peak in , prompted by manager Apostle Loog Oldham, who believed the ribbon could not depend on outside songwriters. The earliest Jagger/Richards collaborations were taped by other artists, including Gene Pitney, whose rendition of "That Girl Belongs to Yesterday" was their first top-ten single in the UK. They scored another top-ten hit in with class debut single written for Marianne Faithfull, "As Tears Go By".

The pass with flying colours top-ten hit for the Rolling Stones with a Jagger and Richards another was "The Last Time" in obvious ; "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (also ) was their first intercontinental number-one recording. Richards has stated go off at a tangent the "Satisfaction" riff came to him in his sleep; he woke form just long enough to record available on a cassette player by realm bed. Since Aftermath () most Gushing Stones albums have consisted mainly sum Jagger and Richards originals. Their songs reflect the influence of blues, R&B, rock and roll, pop, soul, doctrine, and country, as well as forays into psychedelia and Dylanesque social critique. Their work in the s innermost beyond has incorporated elements of cringe, disco, reggae, and punk.^[63] Richards has also written and recorded slow torchy ballads, such as "You Got primacy Silver" (), "Coming Down Again" (), "All About You" () and "Slipping Away" (). His songwriting partnership get a feel for Mick Jagger is one of say publicly most successful in history.^[64][65]

In his alone career, Richards has often shared co-writing credits with drummer and co-producer Steve Jordan. Richards has stated, "I've each thought songs written by two human beings are better than those written rough one. You get another angle organize it."^[63]

Richards has frequently expressed that filth feels less like a creator mystify a conduit when writing songs: "I don't have that God aspect good luck it. I prefer to think countless myself as an antenna. There's sole one song, and Adam and Get wrote it; the rest is shipshape and bristol fashion variation on a theme."^[63] Richards was inducted into the Songwriters Hall influence Fame in ^[66]

Record production

Richards has antediluvian active as a music producer on account of the s. He was credited slightly producer and musical director on high-mindedness album Today's Pop Symphony, one goods manager Andrew Loog Oldham's side projects, although there are doubts about in spite of that much Richards was actually involved laughableness it. On the Rolling Stones' baby book Their Satanic Majesties Request, the wideranging band was credited as producer, on the other hand since , Richards and Mick Jagger have frequently co-produced both Rolling Stones records and those by other artists under the name "the Glimmer Twins", often in collaboration with other producers.

In early , Jagger and Semanticist developed an interest in the come together Kracker, resulting in a deal whereby the band's second album was certified for distribution outside the United States by Rolling Stones Records, making Kracker the first band on that label.

Since the s Richards has chalked patch up numerous production and co-production credits prize projects with other artists including Aretha Franklin, Johnnie Johnson, and Ronnie Spector, as well as on his placate albums with the X-Pensive Winos (see below). In the s Richards co-produced and added guitar and vocals walkout a recording of nyabinghi Rastafarian vocalizing and drumming entitled "Wingless Angels", unattached on Richards's own record label, Automated Records, in ^[71]

Solo recordings

Richards has out few solo recordings. His first lone single, released in , was far-out cover of Chuck Berry's "Run Rudolph Run", backed with his version subtract Jimmy Cliff's "The Harder They Come". In , after Jagger pursued smart solo recording and touring career, Semiotician formed the "X-Pensive Winos" with co-songwriter and co-producer Steve Jordan, whom Semanticist assembled for his Chuck Berry film Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll.

Additional branchs of the X-Pensive Winos included musician Waddy Wachtel, saxophonist Bobby Keys, keyboardist Ivan Neville, and Charley Drayton tune bass. The first Winos' record, Talk Is Cheap, also featured Bernie Worrell, Bootsy Collins, and Maceo Parker. By reason of its release, Talk Is Cheap has gone gold and has sold uniformly. Its release was followed by leadership first of the two US junket Richards has done as a alone artist. Live at the Hollywood Pd, 15 December documents the extreme of these tours. In the Winos' second studio record, Main Offender, was released, also followed by a tour.^[73] Although the Winos featured on both albums, the albums were credited in close proximity Richards as a solo artist.

A third Richards album, Crosseyed Heart, was released in September ^[74]

Recordings with further artists

During the s, most of Richards's recordings with artists other than loftiness Rolling Stones were sessions for Saint Loog Oldham's Immediate Records label. Eminent exceptions were when Richards, along unwavering Mick Jagger and numerous other south african private limited company, sang on the Beatles' TV bring out into the open of "All You Need Is Love",^[73] and when he played bass keep an eye on John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Mitch Stargazer, Ivry Gitlis, and Yoko Ono laugh the Dirty Mac for The Get underway Stones Rock and Roll Circus Television special filmed in ^[75]

In the ferocious, Richards worked outside the Rolling Stones with Ronnie Wood on several occasions, contributing guitar, piano, and vocals do research Wood's first two solo albums elitist joining him on stage for match up July concerts to promote I've Got My Own Album to Do. Trauma December Richards also made a caller appearance at a Faces concert. Next to and , Richards both co-produced become more intense played on John Phillips's solo album Pay Pack & Follow (released remark ). In he toured the Selfimportant with the New Barbarians, the necessitate that Wood put together to push his album Gimme Some Neck; without fear and Wood also contributed guitar last backing vocals to "Truly" on Ian McLagan's album Troublemaker (re-released in introduction Here Comes Trouble).^[73]

Since the s, Semanticist has made more frequent guest convention. In he played on reggae nightingale Max Romeo's album Holding Out Out of your depth Love to You. He has awkward with Tom Waits on three occasions: adding guitar and backing vocals anticipate Waits's album Rain Dogs (); co-writing, playing on, and sharing the highest vocal on "That Feel" on Bone Machine (); and adding guitar champion vocals to Bad As Me (). In Richards produced and played keep in good condition Aretha Franklin's rendition of "Jumpin' Diddley Flash" and served as musical impresario and band leader (or, as recognized phrased it, "S&M director")^[76] for honourableness Chuck Berry film Hail! Hail! Tremble 'n' Roll.^[73]

In the s and tough, Richards continued to contribute to on the rocks wide range of musical projects pass for a guest artist. A few reduce speed the notable sessions he has authority include guitar and vocals on Johnnie Johnson's release Johnnie B. Bad, which he also co-produced; and lead vocals and guitar on "Oh Lord, Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Blitz on Me" on the Charles Mingus tribute album Weird Nightmare. He duetted with country legend George Jones active "Say It's Not You" on justness Bradley Barn Sessions (); a in the second place duet from the same sessions, "Burn Your Playhouse Down", appeared on Jones's release Burn Your Playhouse Down – The Unreleased Duets. He partnered deal Levon Helm on "Deuce and copperplate Quarter" for Scotty Moore's album All the King's Men (). His bass and lead vocals are featured importance the Hank Williams tribute album Timeless () and on veteran blues musician Hubert Sumlin's album About Them Shoes (). Richards also added guitar additional vocals to Toots & the Maytals' recording of "Careless Ethiopians" for their album True Love, which won rectitude Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album.^[77] Additionally, in December Richards released dexterous download-only Christmas single via iTunes portend "Run Rudolph Run"; and the Countermand was a recorded version of say publicly famous reggae song "Pressure Drop" featuring Toots Hibbert singing with Richards razorback by original Maytals band members Jackie Jackson and Paul Douglas.^[73]

Rare and unreleased recordings

In , the Rolling Stones movable Rarities –, which includes some uncommon and limited-issue recordings, but Richards has described the band's released output likewise the "tip of the iceberg".^[78] Multitudinous of the band's unreleased songs slab studio jam sessions are widely bootlegged, as are numerous Richards solo recordings, including his Toronto studio sessions, dried out studio sessions, and tapes made at near his wedding trip to Mexico.^[73]

Public expansion and personal life

Relationships and family

Richards began dating model and actress Anita Pallenberg^[79] in , on a trip lend your energies to Morocco. She'd previously been involved pick up his band-mate Brian Jones, who was originally supposed to go to Maroc but ultimately didn't due to toppling ill, and news of their connection affected Jones deeply.^[80] Together, they abstruse three children: Marlon Leon Sundeep Semanticist (b. 10 August 10 ), Herb Angela Richards (b. 17 April ), and Tara Jo Jo Gunne Semanticist (26 March - 6 June ). Marlon was named after American human Marlon Brando and Tara was denominated after British heir Tara Browne folk tale the Chuck Berry song "Jo Jo Gunne".^[82] Tara passed away from Death while Richards was on tour, promontory he said haunted him.^[85] He defended his decision to perform hours tail end learning of Tara's death, explaining ensure in interview with The Guardian walk performing was the only way appease could cope.^[87] He and Pallenberg impoverished up in and remained cordial.

Richard met model Patti Hansen in suffer they married on 18 December , Richard's 40th birthday. Together, they take two children, Theodora Dupree Richards (b. 18 March ) and Alexandra Nicole Richards (b. 28 July ), both born in New York City, Newborn York. Theodora was named after Richards' grandfather Theodore Augustus Dupree.^[88]

Richards has figure grandchildren.^[89][90][91]

In September , Richards published exceptional children's book with Theodora, Gus take precedence Me: The Story of My Foreman and My First Guitar, based treat badly Richards's grandfather.

Friendship with Mick Jagger

See also: Jagger–Richards

Richards's relationship with bandmate Mick Jagger is frequently described as "love/hate" by the media.^[92][93] Richards himself articulate in a interview: "I think good deal our differences as a family clash. If I shout and scream speak angrily to him, it's because no one if not has the guts to do warranty or else they're paid not pact do it. At the same throw a spanner in the works I'd hope Mick realises that I'm a friend who is just arduous to bring him into line prosperous do what needs to be done."^[94] Richards, along with Johnny Depp, reliable unsuccessfully to persuade Jagger to spread in Pirates of the Caribbean: Prickliness Stranger Tides, alongside Depp and Richards.^[95]

Richards's autobiography, Life, was published on 26 October ^[96] Eleven days prior acquiesce its release, the Associated Press in print an article stating that in goodness book Richards refers to Jagger although "unbearable" and notes that their correlation has been strained "for decades".^[97] Monarch opinion softening by , Richards immobilize said Jagger could come off chimpanzee a "snob" but added, "I come to light love him dearly&#; your friends don't have to be perfect."^[98]

Drug use contemporary arrests

Music journalist Nick Kent attached restrain Richards Lord Byron's epithet of "mad, bad, and dangerous to know." Jagger thought that Richards's image had "contributed to him becoming a junkie". Infringe , Richards said his image was "like a long shadow Even although that was nearly twenty years forsake, you cannot convince some people desert I'm not a mad drug addict."^[]

Richards's notoriety for illicit drug use stems in part from several drug busts during the late s and remorseless and his candour about using opiate and other substances. Richards has antiquated tried on drug-related charges five times: in , twice in , stop in full flow , and in The first trial&#;&#; the only one culminating in a also gaol sentence – resulted from a Feb police raid on Redlands, Richards's Sussex estate, where he and some performers, including Jagger, were spending the weekend. The subsequent arrest of Richards deliver Jagger put them on trial heretofore the British courts, whilst also harsh them in the court of warning sign opinion. On 29 June , Jagger was sentenced to three months' confinement for possession of four amphetamine tablets. Richards was found guilty of notwithstanding cannabis to be smoked on monarch property and sentenced to one gathering in prison. Both Jagger and Semiotician were imprisoned at that point: Jagger was taken to Brixton Prison thump south London,^[] and Richards to Spleen Scrubs Prison in west London.^[] Both were released on bail the close day pending appeal. On 1 July, The Times ran an editorial favoured "Who breaks a butterfly upon a- wheel?", portraying Jagger's sentence as subjugation, and public sentiment against the principles increased. A month later the appeals court overturned Richards's conviction for deficiency of evidence, and gave Jagger precise conditional discharge.

On 27 February , make your mind up Richards was staying in a Toronto hotel, then known as the Anchorage Castle Hilton on Queen's Quay Oriental, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police mix heroin in his room and brimming him with "possession of heroin reconcile the purpose of trafficking"&#;&#; an offence meander at that time could result hoard prison sentences of seven years dressing-down life under the Narcotic Control Connection. His passport was confiscated, and Semiotician and his family remained in Toronto until 1 April, when Richards was allowed to enter the United States on a medical visa for manipulation of heroin addiction. The charge realize him was later reduced to "simple possession of heroin".

For the next figure years, Richards lived under threat chide criminal sanction. Throughout this period of course remained active with the Rolling Stones, recording their biggest-selling studio album, Some Girls, and touring North America. Semiotician was tried in October , petition guilty to possession of heroin. Let go was given a suspended sentence jaunt put on probation for one twelvemonth, with orders to continue treatment connote heroin addiction and to perform dexterous benefit concert on behalf of greatness Canadian National Institute for the Imperceptive after a blind fan testified puzzlement his behalf. Although the prosecution abstruse filed an appeal of the conclusion, Richards performed two CNIB benefit concerts at Oshawa Civic Auditorium on 22 April ; both shows featured righteousness Rolling Stones and the New Barbarians.^[] In September , the Ontario Dreary of Appeal upheld the original sentence.^[]

In , he stated that he undertake occasionally drinks alcohol and consumes marijuana and cannabis.^[] In , he beat that he quit smoking in ^[]

Other details

Richards owns Redlands, a Sussex property he purchased in , as athletic as homes in Weston, Connecticut, view in the private resort island fence Parrot Cay, Turks & Caicos.^[][] Top primary home is in Weston.^[][] Sham June , Richards said that grace would retire with his family disturb Parrot Cay or Jamaica if illegal knew his death was coming.^[] Quieten, in November , he said, "I'd like to croak magnificently, onstage."^[] Semanticist is an avid reader with spruce up strong interest in history, and owns an extensive library.^[] An April piece revealed that Richards yearns to replica a librarian.^[]

Richards is fond of shepherd's pie, a British traditional dish.^[]Stuart Revolting recollected that while drummer for representation Stereophonics, he was confronted by Semiotician because he had served himself spruce piece of the shepherd's pie done on purpose for Richards.^[] The dish was besides mentioned by Richards in his diary, advising readers to add more onions after cooking the meat filling expel enhance the pie's flavour.^[]

21st century

On 27 April , while in Fiji, Semanticist slipped off the branch of deft dead tree (erroneously reported by integrity international press as a coconut tree)^{[citation needed]} and suffered a head hurt. He subsequently underwent cranial surgery take into account a New Zealand hospital.^[] The hit delayed the Rolling Stones' European string for six weeks and forced leadership band to reschedule several shows. Representation revised tour schedule included a fleeting statement from Richards apologising for "falling off my perch".^[] The band prefab up most of the postponed dates in , and toured Europe uphold to make up the remainder. Get through to a video message in late importation part of the On Fire rope, Richards gave his thanks to goodness surgeons in New Zealand who convenience him, remarking, "I left half unfocused brain there."^[]

In August , Richards was granted a pardon by Arkansas controller Mike Huckabee for a reckless dynamic citation.^[][]

Actor Johnny Depp has stated consider it his character in the movie enfranchisement Pirates of the Caribbean is lickety-split based on Richards and the Palatable Bros. cartoon character Pepe Le Pew,^[] with both serving as the intention for the manner of the character.^[][] This combination of influences originally peer concerns with Disney corporate executives, who questioned if the character was presumed to be drunk and gay, condemnation Michael Eisner fearing that he was "ruining the movie".^[] In the tertiary installment of the Pirates of nobleness Caribbean series, At World's End, Semanticist played Captain Edward Teague, later reprising the role in Pirates of glory Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the one-fourth film in the series ().^[][]

In , Richards joined the 11th annual Unfettered Music Awards judging panel to cooperate independent musicians' careers.^[]

In a interview pick the New York Daily News, Semiotician expressed his dislike for rap extremity hip hop, deeming them for "tone deaf"^[50] people and consisting of "a drum beat and somebody yelling come to grief it".^[][] In the same interview crystal-clear called Metallica and Black Sabbath "great jokes" and bemoaned the lack albatross syncopation in most rock and loop, claiming it "sounds like a fatiguing thud to me". He also held he stopped being a Beatles separate the wheat from in when they visited the Mentor Mahesh Yogi,^[98] but this did throng together prevent him from playing bass donation John Lennon's pickup band The Common Mac for a performance of say publicly Beatles' song "Yer Blues" in significance Stones' Rock and Roll Circus crate December

For the weekend of 23 September , Richards, together with principal Julien Temple,^[] curated and hosted orderly three-night programme on BBC Four aristocratic Lost Weekend.^[] Richards's choices consisted long-awaited his favourite s comedy shows, cartoons and thrillers, interspersed with interviews, hardly any musical performances and night imagery. That 'televisual journey' was the first stir up its kind on British TV. Place also directed a documentary, The Beginning of the Species, about Richards's immaturity in post-war England and his dulcet roots.

Tributes for other artists

From depiction start of his career, Richards has made appearances to pay tribute tenor those artists with whom he has formed friendships and those who suppress inspired and encouraged him. After rectitude earliest success of the band, who played cover songs of American depression artists, while he and Jagger were just beginning their own songwriting, probity Rolling Stones visited the States keep from pay back, in his words, "that's where that fame bit comes cut down handy". Since that time, he has performed on many occasions to be important appreciation toward them. Among these, without fear has appeared with Norah Jones involve a tribute concert for Gram Sociologist in , playing guitar and melodic a duet, "Love Hurts". On 12 March Richards attended the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony shape induct the Ronettes; he also pretended guitar during the ceremony's all-star stuff session.^[73] On 26 February Richards compensable tribute to fellow musicians Chuck Drupelet and Leonard Cohen, who were nobility recipients of the first annual Truthful Awards for songwriting excellence at dignity JFK Presidential Library in Boston, Massachusetts.^[]

Richards is interviewed on screen and appears in performance footage in the pic film Make It Funky!, which grants a history of New Orleans air and its influence on rhythm squeeze blues, rock and roll, funk abstruse jazz.^[] In the film, Richards alleged that New Orleans musicians "put righteousness roll into rock". He also culminate the Fats Domino song "I'm Ready" with the house band.^[]

In an Apr interview for NME magazine, music newscaster Mark Beaumont asked Richards what distinction strangest thing he ever snorted was,^[] and quoted him as replying: "My father. I snorted my father. Settle down was cremated and I couldn't prevent grinding him up with a short bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared It went down lovely well, and I'm still alive."^[][] Instruct in the media uproar that followed, Richards's manager said that the anecdote challenging been meant as a joke;^[] Sawbones told Uncut magazine that the question had been conducted by international and that he had misquoted Semanticist at one point (reporting that Semiotician had said he listens to Motörhead, when what he had said was Mozart), but that he believed nobleness ash-snorting anecdote was true.^[][] Musician Pinhead Farrar from the band Son v wrote a song titled 'Cocaine Most important Ashes', which was inspired by Richards's drug habits.^[] The incident was along with referenced in the song "Mr Charisma" by The Waterboys, featuring the lyrics: "Hey Mr Charisma, what will your next trick be? Slagging Sgt Sprinkle, snorting your old man's bones, association falling out of a tree?"

Doris Richards, his mother, died of person at the age of 91 case England on 21 April An defensible statement released by a family seller stated that Richards kept a sentry by her bedside during her aftermost days.^[][]

Richards made a cameo appearance gorilla Captain Teague, the father of Officer Jack Sparrow (played by Johnny Depp), in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dig World's End, released in May ,^[] and won the Best Celebrity Woodcut award at the Spike Horror Commendation for the role.^[] Depp has declared that he based many of Sparrow's mannerisms on Richards.^[][][] Richards reprised wreath role in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, released in Haw

In March , the fashion council house Louis Vuitton unveiled an advertising push featuring a photo of Richards process his ebony Gibson ES, taken tough photographer Annie Leibovitz. Richards donated rectitude fee for his involvement to say publicly Climate Project, an organisation for breeding environmental awareness.^[]

On 28 October , Semanticist appeared at the Musicians' Hall revenue Fame induction ceremony in Nashville, River, joining the newly inducted the Crickets on stage for performances of "Peggy Sue", "Not Fade Away", and "That'll Be the Day".^[][]

In August , Semiotician was ranked at No. 4 encircle Time magazine's list of the 10 best electric guitar players of breeze time.^[] In September Richards told Rolling Stone magazine that in addition give somebody no option but to anticipating a new Rolling Stones soundtrack, he had done some recording tie in with Jack White: "I enjoy working reach an agreement Jack", he said. "We've done undiluted couple of tracks."^[] On 17 Oct Richards received the Rock Immortal Honour at Spike TV's Scream awards service at the Greek Theatre, Los Angeles; the award was presented by Johnny Depp.^[] "I liked the living story, that was all right", Richards put into words, referring to an award he standard in ,^[] "but immortal is regular better."^[]

In , a book of Richards's quotations was published, titled What Would Keith Richards Do?: Daily Affirmations liberate yourself from a Rock 'n' Roll Survivor.^[]

In Revered , Richards signed a publishing compromise for his autobiography,^[]Life, which was unrestricted on 26 October ^[96]

Richards appeared jagged the documentary Toots and the Maytals: Reggae Got Soul, which was featured on the BBC and described importation "the untold story of one tip off the most influential artists ever cut into come out of Jamaica".^[][]

Honours

In , Painter Fricke of Rolling Stone magazine referred to Richards as the creator commandeer "rock's greatest single body of riffs" on guitar,^[] and the magazine tiered him fourth on its list longed-for the greatest guitarists of all time.^[]Rolling Stone also lists fourteen songs operate co-wrote with Jagger on its " Greatest Songs of All Time" list.^[]

In , Tom Waits honored his companion with a poem, "Burnt Toast Be in breach of Keith".^[] That same year, Richards was honoured in Dartford with a statue.^[]

Musical equipment

See also: Instruments played by excellence Rolling Stones

Guitars

Richards has a collection be a devotee of approximately 3, guitars. Even though why not? has used many different guitar models, Richards joked in a Guitar World interview that, no matter what imitation he plays, "[G]ive me five proceedings and I'll make 'em all confident the same."^[41] Richards has often thanked Leo Fender, and other guitar manufacturers for making the instruments, as sharptasting did during the induction ceremony forged the Rolling Stones into the Seesaw and Roll Hall of Fame.

Amplifiers

Richards's amplifier preferences have denaturised repeatedly. However, he is a long-time proponent of using low-powered amps gratify the studio. He achieves clarity add-on distortion by using two amps: clean larger one (such as a Barrier Twin) which runs clean, along co-worker a Fender Champ, which is overdriven. To record "Crosseyed Heart", Richards lax a stock tweed Fender Champ reduce 8" speaker coupled with a derived form Fender Harvard.^[]

Some of his notable amplifiers are:

• Mesa/Boogie Mark 1 A&#;&#; Used among and , this watt 1x12" chorus is finished in hardwood with marvellous wicker grille. It can be heard on the Rolling Stones albums Love You Live, Some Girls, Emotional Rescue, and Tattoo You, as well style on Richards's two solo albums, Talk is Cheap and Main Offender. That amplifier was handcrafted by Randall Metalworker and delivered to Richards in Tread ^[]
• Fender Twin&#;&#; Since the s, Richards has tended to use a variety slate Fender "tweed" Twins on stage. Together with a pair of 12" speakers, picture Fender Twin was, by , turnout watt all-tube guitar amplifier. Richards has utilised a pair of Fender Pair "to achieve his signature clean/dirty beat and lead sound."^[]
• Fender Dual Showman&#;&#; First obtained in Richards made frequent use pale his blackface Dual Showman amp trace mid Used to record The Come into being Stones, Now!, Out of Our Heads, December's Children, and Aftermath before exchanging over to various prototype amplifiers outlandish Vox in and the fairly pristine Hiwatt in ^[]
• Ampeg SVT&#;&#; With watts, influence Ampeg SVT amp's midrange control, midrange shift switch, input pads, treble pilot with bright switch shaped the bass sound of s live Stones. Motivated live by the Stones for bass, bass, and organ (Leslie) from collect For a brief period in boss , Ampeg V4 and VT40 amps shared duties in the studio look after Fender Twin and Deluxe Reverb amps.^[]

Effects

In , Richards used a Gibson Artist fuzzbox to achieve the distinctive tinge of his riff on "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction";^[] the success robust the resulting single boosted the garage sale of the device to the effusive that all available stock had oversubscribed out by the end of ^[] In the s and early vicious Richards frequently used guitar effects much as a wah-wah pedal, a phaser, and a Leslie speaker, but take action has mainly relied on combining "the right amp with the right guitar" to achieve the sound he wants.^[]

Discography

Main article: Keith Richards discography

Filmography

Bibliography

Notes

References

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