Posted on 10/28/2010 1:15:04 PM PDT by pissant
Keith Richards on drugs and relationship with Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stone's autobiography reveals a lifetime of substance abuse. Why on earth hasn't it killed him?
His name is synonymous with rock 'n' roll excess, his memoirs detail a lifetime spent ingesting a Herculean quantity of illegal drugs and he only gave up cocaine, aged 62, after he split his head open falling from a tree while foraging for coconuts.
At 66, Keith Richards' continued survival is a source of widespread bafflement. Continue reading the main story In today's Magazine
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According to addiction expert Dr Robert Lefever, director of the Promis recovery centre in Richards' native Kent, there is only one possible explanation for his longevity: "He must have the constitution of an ox."
But Richards' own memoirs suggest he may have been more careful with his intake than his bacchanalian public persona implies.
The autobiography, Life, is candid about the scope of his notorious drug-taking during his lengthy career as the Rolling Stones' lead guitarist and co-songwriter.
"I used to walk down Oxford Street with a slab of hash as big as a skateboard," drawls a typical passage.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
God’s not ready for him. Plus isn’t he in a stable long marriage? Yes he was a bit wild in his youth but he grew up....still looks horrible but I have seen normal people look pretty bad at his age too.
Is that Helen Thomas in drag?
He looks like a cheesy horror movie character. Keith Richards . . . gremlin. And what the heck is the braid in his hair? He has the same taste as my 6 year old daughter (Who asked a young man, “Why are you wearing your mommy’s earings?”)
He isn’t alive, he’s pickled.
Damn Keef, I’ve seen better lookin’ heads on a boil!!
“How is Keith Richards still alive?”
My theories:
1. The Devil takes care of his own.
2. All the dead rock and roll guys who died from like excesses have taken the opportunity to live vicariously through his earthy vessel. *It is reported he has cravings occasionally for ham sandwiches (see: Mama Cass story)
3. He has only been seen at night, and will not allow anyone to enter his home with garlic in any form, leading many to suspect he is really one of the ‘undead’.
4. God is giving him ample time to turn his life around as in reality he’s a good person.
We don't call them
THE STROLLING BONES...
--for naught.
just my humble plz....
He looks like he IS dead! Shows what living a healthy life can do for you. (/sarc)
If I had a nickel for everytime I did that, well, I'd have forgotten where I put all those damned nickels.
And that's a GOOD pic of the old bloke.
"...and the guitar player looks damaged; he's been an outcast all his life."
- "Jigsaw Puzzle"
That is the laugher of the day !
Don’t judge a book by its cover. Keith does look like someone who chose not to use Michael Jackson’s plastic surgeon(just the drug doctor). He never seems to be in the news for destroying a hotel room at the Plaza or failing a drug test and sent back to the court, he just lives to play music and stay in la la land. Nobody ever called him a role model. Leave him alone and let him keep flying just above reality
In a prison of his own making.
Fox News had a rep from a company whose name I believe was NOME. They are a DNA testing company. They wanted to find out why Ozzy Osbourne was still living despite his long-time abuse of drugs and alcohol. They tested his DNA and found a gene that was known for blocking the effects of drugs and alcohol. It may have been the reason why he needed so many pills (47) per day. In addition, they discovered that the same gene or perhaps another, does not block the effect of caffeine in coffee. Sharon Osbourne has reported that two cups of coffee will set him off. It was pretty interesting.
[ He isn’t alive, he’s pickled. ]
I think he technically die4s sometime in the early 1980’s his body is just very slowly decomposing but the alcohol is slowing things down a bit....
It could be a double.
I’m thinking that he switched from heroine to formaldehyde many years ago..........
Ozzy looks way better than that!!!
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