Posted on 05/02/2006 5:20:55 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
ROLLING Stones guitarist Keith Richards has been released from a New Zealand hospital where he was being treated after a mysterious accident, the band's spokeswoman said today.
Details about his whereabouts or condition were not immediately available. However, the European leg of the band's world tour will begin as scheduled on May 27 in Barcelona, she said.
Richards, 62, was flown to the New Zealand city of Auckland last week for observation after sustaining a mild concussion while on vacation with his wife, Patti, in Fiji.
Various news reports have said the death-defying rocker fell from either a coconut tree or a personal water craft. The Stones camp has not disclosed what actually happened.
Along with lead singer Mick Jagger, Richards has been the backbone of the Rolling Stones since the 1960s. His history of arrests and drug abuse in younger years has given him the reputation as rock 'n' roll's ultimate survivor. He pokes fun at his chequered past by greeting concert audiences with the catchphrase, "Good to be here, good to be anywhere."
He has suffered his fair share of accidents.
In 1998, he broke three ribs and punctured a lung after falling from a ladder while reaching for a book in his library. In 1990, one of his fingers got infected after he punctured it on a guitar string. In both cases, the Stones were forced to postpone concerts.
Gimme Healthcare.
She's got a loverly bunch of coconuts...
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Say what you will...He's still the Human Riff. |
Yeah, he really knows how to pluck, doesn't he? Take a gander at his wife and daughters.
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When the whip comes down...Great googly-moogly. |
Or both...
LOL!! That's a ripper!!!
LOL!! That's a ripper!!!
A Rolling Stone gathers no más.
In 1998, he broke three ribs and punctured a lung after falling from a ladder while reaching for a book in his library.It was a book on hydroponics.
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