History Music / KeithRichards

'''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. 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.'

'''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 Mick Jagger. His inspirations have long included Music/ChuckBerry, 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.'

'''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 Mick Jagger. His inspirations have long included Music/ChuckBerry, Scotty Moore and Music/BoDiddley. His style is (predictably) a standard blues rock feel, emphasizing chords and rhythm over 'fastest-gun-in-the-west style.'

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'''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 Brian Jones and Mick Jagger. His inspirations have long included Music/ChuckBerry, Scotty Moore and Music/BoDiddley. His style is (predictably) a standard blues rock feel, emphasizing chords and rhythm over 'fastest-gun-in-the-west style.'

'''Keith Richards''' (December 18, 1943-) is the rhythm guitarist and a founding member of Music/TheRollingStones, one of the best known members along with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. His inspirations have long included Chuck Berry, Scotty Moore and Bo Diddley. His style is (predictably) a standard blues rock feel, emphasizing chords and rhythm over 'fastest-gun-in-the-west style.'

Recently, Richards has been made famous by Creator/JohnnyDepp, who based the movement of the character Jack Sparrow off Keith Richards. Richards then appeared in the third ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' movie as Jack Sparrow's father, complete with his wife's shrunken head.

* ''The Harder They Come'' as the original B-side
** ''Pressure Drop'' as the reissue B-side

'''Keith Richards''' (December 18, 1943-) is the rhythm guitarist and a founding member of Music/TheRollingStones, one of the best known members along with lead singer Mick Jagger. His inspirations have long included Chuck Berry, Scotty Moore and Bo Diddley. His style is (predictably) a standard blues rock feel, emphasizing chords and rhythm over 'fastest-gun-in-the-west style.'

Solo Discography:
* ''Talk Is Cheap'' - 1988
* ''[[LiveAlbum Live]] at the Hollywood Palladium'' - 1988
* ''Main Offender'' - 1992
* ''Vintage Vinos'' - 2010 (compilation)

->"Keith could eat iron and piss rust."
->--'''Phil Kaufman'''

Keith Richards is the rhythm guitarist and a founding member of Music/TheRollingStones, one of the best known members along with lead singer MickJagger. His inspirations have long included Chuck Berry, Scotty Moore and Bo Diddley. His style is (predictably) a standard blues rock feel, emphasizing chords and rhythm over 'fastest-gun-in-the-west style.'

Recently, Richards has been made famous by JohnnyDepp, who based the movement of the character Jack Sparrow off Keith Richards. Richards then appeared in the third ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' movie as Jack Sparrow's father, complete with his wife's shrunken head.

->--'''DenisLeary'''

* BadassGrandpa: One of the most badass around. In one concert, a fan jumped up on stage and charged at the band while they were playing "Satisfaction." Keith took off his guitar and whanged the guy with it, then put it back on and continued playing while security personnel hauled him off. He even turned the volume down so it wouldn't mess up the song! See the video [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv1bM0pp_o4 here]].
* CoolOldGuy
* DeadpanSnarker: He's got a wry sense of humor, and no problems taking potshots at anyone, including himself.
* DelayedReaction: It took him ''two years'' to recognize his son Marlon's friend JohnnyDepp as a famous actor. He thought he was just another nameless musician hanging around the house, until one day he "was at dinner [with Depp] and was like 'whoa, [[EdwardScissorhands Scissorhands]].'"
* {{Immortality}} / MadeOfIron: A common joke about Keith Richards is that he and cockroaches will be the only things to survive a nuclear holocaust. The man seriously rivals OzzyOsbourne in terms of ability to survive the unsurvivable! He frequently lampshades this in concerts and interviews.
** Also he would be accompanied by Lemmy and Courtney Love according to Mick Farren
** And he [[WaynesWorld cannot be killed by conventional weapons]].
** Falling off a coconut tree ''[[WeaksauceWeakness will]]'' injure him, though...
** [[RealTimeWithBillMaher Bill Maher]] sums it up: "New Rule: Airplane black boxes must be made out of Keith Richards. The man who has done more drugs than Rush Limbaugh and Robert Downey, Jr. combined just recently fell out of a tree and then crashed a jetski. And yet [[MemeticBadass that cigarette never fell from his lip.]] Something tells me the future of medical research isn't injecting stem cells, it's injecting heroin."
** The BBC actually headlined an article [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11621076 How is Keith Richards still alive?]]
** According to one interview, when the Stones were heading out on world tour in TheEighties, they first put Keith through a complete medical checkup to make sure that he could be reasonably expected to survive the tour after 20 years on booze and hard drugs. The doctor gave him every test in the book and then pronounced his health ''normal'' for a man in his 40s. Quoth Keith, "it was the only time anyone's ever called me normal."
* HypocriticalHumor: Has chided [[Music/{{Aerosmith}} Steven Tyler]] for his heavy drug use.

* ImAHumanitarian: The business with him supposedly snorting his father's ashes, although it may have been a joke.
* ImmuneToDrugs
* ITakeOffenceToThatLastOne: When it was reported Keith Richards had snorted his father's ashes 'like cocaine' he responded angrily that it had been 'with cocaine' not 'like cocaine.' Many wonder how this is better.
** If you had tried snorting things other than cocaine before you might know that most range from heavy discomfort to incredible pain when inhaled through your nose. Cocaine on the other hand is known for its 'numbing' properties, and in fact makes just about anything go down (up?) smoother. I haven't tried Ashes before, but I imagine ingesting them in such a way would be much easier (and more rewarding) with a generous amount of coke.
*** TVTropes. Where we teach you the benefits of [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife taking drugs]].
* TheLancer
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: His entire life.

* ''Live at the Hollywood Palladium'' - 1988

* ''Vintage Vinos'' - 2010 (CompilationAlbum)

* TheLancer

Unfortunately, despite his talent, he is most remembered for his amazing amounts of drug intakes, and other 'misquotations' from his long career. He once famously responded to an interviewer asking him what the strangest thing he had ever snorted was by saying 'my father, [[AshesToCrashes his ashes ground up and snorted]].' This article had to be changed by his management, since it stated incorrectly that he ground his father's ashes up [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne 'like cocaine']] when in truth it was [[NoExceptYes 'with cocaine']]. Also, they incorrectly stated that he listened to {{Motorhead}}, not {{Mozart}}.

Unfortunately, despite his talent, he is most remembered for his amazing amounts of drug intakes, and other 'misquotations' from his long career. He once famously responded to an interviewer asking him what the strangest thing he had ever snorted was by saying 'my father, [[AshesToCrashes his ashes ground up and snorted]].' This article had to be changed by his management, since it stated incorrectly that he ground his father's ashes up [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne 'like cocaine']] when in truth it was [[NoExceptYes 'with cocaine']]. Also, they incorrectly stated that he listened to Motorhead, not Mozart.

* BadassGrandpa: one of the most badass around. In one concert, a fan jumped up on stage and charged at the band while they were playing "Satisfaction." Keith took off his guitar and whanged the guy with it, then put it back on and continued playing while security personnel hauled him off. He even turned the volume down so it wouldn't mess up the song! See the video [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv1bM0pp_o4 here]].

* {{Immortality}} / MadeOfIron - A common joke about Keith Richards is that he and cockroaches will be the only things to survive a nuclear holocaust. The man seriously rivals OzzyOsbourne in terms of ability to survive the unsurvivable! He frequently lampshades this in concerts and interviews.

* ImAHumanitarian - The business with him supposedly snorting his father's ashes, although it may have been a joke.

* BadassGrandpa: one of the most badass around. In one concert, a fan jumped up on stage and charged at the band while they were playing "Satisfaction." Keith took off his guitar and whanged the guy with it, then put it back on and continued playing while security personnel hauled him off. He even muted the volume so it wouldn't mess up the song!

* BadassGrandpa: one of the most badass around. In one concert, a fan jumped up on stage and charged at the band while they were playing "Satisfaction." Keith took off his guitar and whanged the guy with it, then put it back on and continued playing while security personnel hauled him off.

* {{Immortality}} / MadeOfIron - A common joke about Keith Richards is that he and cockroaches will be the only things to survive a nuclear holocaust. The man seriously rivals OzzyOsbourne in terms of ability to survive the unsurvivable!

Keith Richards is the rhythm guitarist and a founding member of TheRollingStones, one of the best known members along with lead singer MickJagger. His inspirations have long included Chuck Berry, Scotty Moore and Bo Diddley. His style is (predictably) a standard blues rock feel, emphasizing chords and rhythm over 'fastest-gun-in-the-west style.'

Unfortunately, despite his talent, he is most remembered for his amazing amounts of drug intakes, and other 'misquotations' from his long career. He once famously responded to an interviewer asking him what the strangest thing he had ever snorted was by saying 'my father, [[AshesToCrashes his ashes ground up and snorted]].' This article had to be changed by his management, since it stated incorrectly that he ground his father's ashes up [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne 'like cocaine' when in truth it was 'with cocaine']]. Also, they incorrectly stated that he listened to Motorhead, not Mozart.

* {{Immortality}} / MadeOfIron - A common joke about Keith Richards is that he and cockroaches will be the only things to survive a nuclear holocaust.

** [[RealTimeWithBillMaher Bill Maher]] sums it up: "New Rule: Airplane black boxes must be made out of Keith Richards. The man who has done [[BeyondTheImpossible more drugs than Rush Limbaugh and Robert Downey, Jr. combined]] just recently fell out of a tree and then crashed a jetski. And yet [[MemeticBadass that cigarette never fell from his lip.]] Something tells me the future of medical research isn't injecting stem cells, it's injecting heroin."