Posted on 04/29/2006 8:00:46 AM PDT by lunarbicep
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards suffered a mild concussion while vacationing in Fiji and was flown to a New Zealand hospital for treatment, a band spokeswoman said Saturday.
Media reports said Richards fell out of a palm tree and remained hospitalized in Auckland.
Richards, 62, suffered a mild concussion while on holiday in Fiji earlier this week and was flown to New Zealand, band spokeswoman Fran Curtis said in a statement.
"Following treatment locally and as a precautionary measure, he flew to a hospital accompanied by his wife, Patti, for observation," Curtis said.
The statement did not elaborate on Richards' condition.
But media reports in Australian and New Zealand said Richards hurt his head after falling out of a palm tree at an exclusive Fiji resort and remained hospitalized in Auckland.
Newspapers in the Fairfax media group reported in their Sunday editions that Richards was flown to Auckland's Ascot Hospital on Thursday after the accident.
Steve Kirby, duty manager at the Ascot Hospital, would not comment on whether Richards was a patient there, citing the hospital's privacy policy.
The Fijilive.com news Web site reported that the accident was believed to have happened at Fiji's exclusive Wakaya Club resort.
Salesi Finau of the resort told The Associated Press that Richards and his wife recently stayed at the resort for about a week but would not say when they left.
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During a Rolling Stones concert in Sacramento in 1965, Keith Richards grew annoyed with his microphone and smashed it with the neck of his guitar. Bad idea... An enormous jolt of electricity sent Richards flying backward through the air. He landed on his back, where he remained unconscious for several minutes. Finally, he sat up and the show went on, with Richards adjusting his microphone with tender loving care. [Richards later attributed his survival to the thick soles of his Hush Puppies boots.]
BTW, after he hit the dirt, did the stars circle around his head clockwise or counterclockwise?
Does Keith dye his hair? His body hair isn't gray either.
...Though it would be funny if he happened to meet his Maker falling from a tree...
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!
He is too old to be in a tree!
ROTFL!
How could they tell????
damn! not an ounce-o-fat on the guy.. just that comes from drinking your meals.
Jerry: Hey.
Keith: Hey, you should come over. Tonight's pipe night.
Jerry: What? What happened to your face? It looks like an old catcher's mitt.
Keith: What?
Keith: My face is all craggly, it's crinkly.
Jerry: It's from all that smoke. You've experienced a lifetime of smoking in 72 hours. What did you expect?
Keith: Emphysema, birth defects, cancer. But not this. Jerry, my face is my livelihood. Everything I have I owe to this face.
Jerry: And your teeth, your teeth are all brown.
Keith: Look away, I'm hideous.
That it a fantastic line!!! How did you come up with that so quick?
He coulda been in the "Night of the Living Dead" and saved them a bundle on make-up. *~*
ping
Best question I have heard all day.
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