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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards had surgery to relieve a blood clot on his brain caused by an accident while holidaying in Fiji, local media reported on Monday. The 62-year-old rocker was recovering in New Zealand after "brain surgery", Australian and New Zealand media reported. A spokeswoman for the band said last week that Richards only suffered a mild concussion from an accident in Fiji in late April and would not require surgery.

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...

 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...

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LONDON (Reuters) - Keith Richards (news) is not amused. The legendary Rolling Stones' guitarist has flown into a rock and roll rage against Mick Jagger (news) over the singer's decision to accept a knighthood, the ultimate nod from the British establishment. "I don't want to step out onstage with someone wearing a coronet and sporting the old ermine," Richards told British music magazine "Uncut" in an expletive-rich interview. "I told Mick it's a paltry honor...It's not what the Stones is about, is it?" The Stones, still rocking after 40 years, made their names with crunching rock classics including "Satisfaction," "Street...

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