History Music / KeithRichards

* ChristmasSongs: His 1978 cover of Creator/ChuckBerry's "Run Rudolph Run".

* ChristmasSongs: "Run Rudolph Run".
* EveryoneHasStandards and GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Amazingly he was the one who told Charlie Watts to 'sort yourself out' when Watts's addictions got to their worst point. He also said that crack cocaine is the one drug he has never and would never try.

* CoolOldGuy: He is over 70 now, did every possible drug in the world (except crack cocaine, which Richards hates and has no interest in trying) and still plays the meanest licks on stage.

* TheHedonist: The living patron saint of the trope

* MadeOfIron: Quite possibly the best example in real life. The man seems impervious to any lasting harm, whatever it's from epic amounts of narcotics or physical injury, to the point that the common jokes that he could survive nuclear war without a scratch barely come across as exaggeration.

* HiddenDepths: He's an avid reader and history buff with an extensive library, and is a fan of shepherd's pie.

Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English musician from Dartford, Kent, best known as a guitarist and songwriter for, and founding member of, Music/TheRollingStones.

* EveryoneHasStandards and GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Amazingly he was the one who told Charlie Watts to 'sort yourself out' when Watts's addictions got to their worst point

''Magazine/RollingStone'' recognizes him as the fourth greatest guitarist of all time on their list of [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone100GreatestGuitaristsOfAllTime 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time]].

* MadeOfIron: Quite possibly the best example in real life. The man seems impervious to any lasting harm, wheter it's from epic amounts of narcotics or physical injury, to the point that the common jokes that he could survive nuclear war without a scratch barely come across as exaggeration.

* HiddenDepths: He's an avid reader and history buff with an extensive library.

* EveryoneHasStandards/GetAholdOfYourselfMan: Amazingly he was the one who told Charlie Watts to 'sort yourself out' when Watts's addictions got to the worst point

* TheHedonist:

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: In his autobiography ''Life'', he says that he formed the side project X-Pensive Winos in the 80's for several reasons: the Stones were on an indefinite hiatus, Keith wanted to get back on the road, and he still had a lot of bills to pay. Later on, he specifically notes he enjoys the royalties that one of the Winos' songs gets from its inclusion in an episode of ''Series/TheSopranos''. He also talks at length about the fact that the Stones barely broke even in their early years due to a heavily-unfair record company contract, and that their renegotiation of their contract in the early 80's allowed them to get much more royalties than normal, which is why they officially licence all their own products (for big pay-checks).

* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: The amount of drugs this guy has taken in his life. Also during a Rolling Stones concert in Sacramento, California, in September 1965, before performing the song "The Last Time", Richards noted his microphone was pointing away from him. To put it in the right direction, he smashed his guitar against the microphone, causing it to give him an electric shock, which rendered him unconscious for seven minutes. Luckily, Bill Wyman rushed to his aid in time to get the guitar away from his body (the shock had melted away three of its strings). Later on, in 2006, he concussed himself after falling off a coconut tree while on holiday in Fiji, only to be nursed back to health in UsefulNotes/NewZealand. He later offered his gratitude to the surgeons in New Zealand who operated on him, saying that "[[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/video.cfm?c_id=1501119&gal_cid=1501119&gallery_id=139548 I left half my brain there]]".

* SmokingIsNotCool: On the other hand his body has visibly suffered from decades of tobacco and drug abuse.
* SoloSideProject: Basically Keith's entire solo career. For him, the Stones have always been his number one priority. Still, in an interview he claimed his only regret in life was "getting busted for drug possession".

* UrbanLegend: Supposedly, Keith is able to cheat death because every few years, he gets a full blood transfusion at a clinic in Switzerland. Keith said he told this to the customs officer in London as a joke, and the guy bought it. The same goes for the story that he allegedly snorted his father's ashes along with some coke.

* HeAlsoDid: He actually played bass on a number of Rolling Stones songs, most notably "Sympathy for the Devil" (you can actually see him laying down the bass part in the Creator/JeanLucGodard film of the same title). He also played bass in the {{Supergroup}} The Dirty Mac from ''The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus'', but since Music/EricClapton and Music/JohnLennon also were in the group, ''someone'' had to play bass.

Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English guitarist and a founding member of Music/TheRollingStones. One of the best-known members along with Music/MickJagger and Music/BrianJones, he first became famous with them along with Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts during UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion. His inspirations have included Music/ChuckBerry, Jimmy Reed, Scotty Moore (Music/ElvisPresley's guitarist), and Music/BoDiddley. His style is (predictably) a standard blues rock feel, emphasizing chords and rhythm over 'fastest-gun-in-the-west' style.

* SpecialGuest: He played guitar on Music/PeterTosh's "Bush Doctor" (1978), sang on Music/MaxRomeo's album "Holding Out My Love To You" (1981), added guitar and backing vocals to Music/TomWaits' "Big Black Mariah", "Union Square" and "Blind Love" from ''Music/RainDogs'' (1985), co-wrote, played and shared lead vocals on Waits' "That Feel" from ''Music/BoneMachine'' (1992) and provided guitar and vocals to Waits' "Chicago", "Satisfied", "Last Leaf" and "Hell Broke Luce" from ''Music/BadAsMe'' (2011) as well.

* SophisticatedAsHell: He's quite attuned culturally and one of his choices for a Desert Island Disc was Vivaldi's "Four Seasons, [[http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/25/stones-music-bbc his justification]] is:
--> ''I was agonising about this because Mozart is my man, but then I found out reading some of his letters that the only good word he had to say about any other composer was Vivaldi, and then I tried to put this together with being on a desert island... so I chose spring from Vivaldi.''

* 1991 - ''Live At The Hollywood Palladium, December 15, 1988''

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Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English guitarist and a founding member of Music/TheRollingStones, one of the best-known members along with Music/BrianJones and Music/MickJagger, and first became famous with them along with Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts during UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion. His inspirations have long included Music/ChuckBerry, Jimmy Reed, Scotty Moore (Music/ElvisPresley's guitarist) and Music/BoDiddley. His style is (predictably) a standard blues rock feel, emphasizing chords and rhythm over 'fastest-gun-in-the-west style.'

Richards was been made even more famous by Creator/JohnnyDepp, who based the movement of the character Jack Sparrow off Keith Richards. Richards then appeared in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd third]] and [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides fourth]] ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' movie as Jack Sparrow's father, complete with his wife's ShrunkenHead.

Magazine/RollingStone recognizes him as the fourth greatest guitarist of all time on their list of [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone100GreatestGuitaristsOfAllTime 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time]].

Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is the rhythm guitarist and a founding member of Music/TheRollingStones, one of the best known members along with Music/BrianJones and Music/MickJagger, and first became famous with them along with Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts during UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion. His inspirations have long included Music/ChuckBerry, Jimmy Reed, Scotty Moore (Music/ElvisPresley's guitarist) and Music/BoDiddley. His style is (predictably) a standard blues rock feel, emphasizing chords and rhythm over 'fastest-gun-in-the-west style.'