Introducing The Keith Richards Snort-Story Collection
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?
BEST HEADLINE The Post‘s “Father Nose Best” line: Simple and straightforward, it admirably combines the patriarchal angle with the shoving-stuff-into-noses angle. BEST MULTIPLE USES OF ALLITERATION The Daily News takes this one, employing both “leathery legend” and “creepy concoction” in the same sentence. BEST STONES-RELATED WORDPLAY IN A LEDE The Post wins again: “What does an aging rocker do for a ‘Start Me Up?’ Snort his dead father’s ashes, of course.” We also would have accepted “Keith Richards is ‘happy’ (when he’s snorting his dead father’s ashes” and “Have you seen your father, Keith Richards, standing in your nostril?”
“I SNORTED MY FATHER” [New York Post] Blow-by-blow from Keith [New York Daily News]
