Perhaps feeling left out of the annual UK Christmas music blitz, Keith Richards is releasing his 1978 holiday single “Run Rudolph Run” on iTunes next Tuesday, along with his recent cover of Toots and the Maytals’ “Pressure Drop.” More »
“Mick Jagger’s son, James, will be asked to play his father in a new film about the Rolling Stones, according to reports.” In related news, Salacious Crumb, Jabba the Hutt’s right-hand man, is in talks to play Keith Richards. More »
Completely erasing whatever bad-ass goodwill he may have recently generated by smoking on stage–and then eating a cigarette on stage, which is just foolish, as any first-year smoker who’s gotten a little tobacco from a broken cigarette in their mouth knows–Keith Richards has penned a nasty note to a Swedish newspaper after one of them uppity European critics shrugged that a recent Stones performance was sub-par and daring to imply that Richards may have in fact been (the hell you say) “superdrunk”:
Here’s a fun game for the afternoon: Count how many news outlets, even playfully, cast the Rolling Stones as avenging rock’n’roll angels because they dared to flaunt a smoking ban at a U.K. show. Christ, I’m a smoker and even I find this shit embarassing. More »
Keith Richards did indeed snort a line of his dad’s ashes as if it was cocaine, but only because he didn’t have a Dustbuster handy. More »
The bidding war for Keith Richards’ autobiography has ended, and Little, Brown will shell out a reported $7.3 million to the rights for Keef’s life story, which he’ll write with White Mischief author James Fox. More »
A publishing industry insider says that the price for a Keith Richards autobiography has reached “Bill Clinton money,” with HarperCollins and Little, Brown tossing around millions of dollars for the Glimmer Twin’s life story. More »
In a move that’ll surely inspire the droniest dis tracks ever, a member of Mogwai has taken to the band’s blog to decry Keith Richards’ confession that he snorted his dad, and his follow-up assertion that as far as music goes, “There ain’t nothing out there that’s worth shit…. I listen to my shit, baby, Motörhead, reggae, Moroccan music. All kinds of shit.”
In an entry titled “Keith please cease breathing,” Mogwai’s Barry Burns writes:
Hi everyone. I just woke up to find that average blues guitar peddlar and all round unlikeable London pirate-like arsehole Keith Richard snorted his dad’s ashes on a drug binge. Well done Keith, you talentless publicity hungry horrible prick of the highest order. He then goes on to say modern bands are a load of old crap. Right, but can we really listen to the opinions of a nasal cannibal?
Yesterday, the NME revealed that Keith Richards once snorted a combination of cocaine and his father’s ashes. The story made the front page of both the New York Daily News and the New York Post–a feat usually reserved for acts of terrorism or new beagle-pug hybrids. So who wore it better? More »
The full Keith Richards interview is now up on NME’s site, and it turns out, the father-snorting story isn’t the only bit that makes for a good soundbite: Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you’re viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in your Javascript-enabled web browser. More »
