Keith Richard's autobiography

[Andy in Sig]

I'm quite looking forward to picking up a copy of what will doubtless come to be seen as the most significant cultural work of both the 20th and 21st centuries. He deserves a pat on the back in any event for still being around to write it. Anybody else up for a copy?

 

[GM]

I hope that I get this one for Christmas from my sister-in-law. She has got me a musicians autobiography for the past 15 years Christmas and birthdays, quite a collection now!

 

[Davidc]

Been dropping hints about this one and also Parky's People.

Watched the Alan Yentob documentary about the making of Exile in 1972. I can't understand how anyone associated with the stones then is still alive after putting that quantity of mind altering substances into their bodies!

 

[Aperitif]

Wonder if his book will contain more lines than his face?
Luckily, I don't judge books by their covers - (he adds hastily...)

 

[threebikesmcginty]

He's quite a good guitarist but if you watch Chuck Berry in the film 'Hail Hail Rock and Roll' you can see Chuck getting really frustrated with old saddlebag face's inability to master a CB guitar lick, chortle.

 

[Chutzpah]

It's got to be better than Ronnie Wood's biography. That went all over the place with no real structure. He'd be talking about one thing, lurch to another, then go back to something else suddenly. In one minute he's in one year, then five years later, then talking about ten years before. One minute he's in the Faces, then Rolling Stones, then The Jeff Beck Group.

It was like listening to a grandad wittering who had spent too many years off his face on drugs and booze.

Oh, hang on...

 

[KEEF]

My hero

 

[Vapin' Joe]

I'll be getting it.

I got half way through Bill Wyman's autobiography some years ago but it was like a very boring history lesson, strange really as he is very entertaining on radio interviews.

As for Ronnie Wood, bloody newbie, what does he know?

 

[KEEF]

Ronnie who

 

[tyred]

I surprised he can remember anything at all.

 

[Paulus]

I surprised he can remember anything at all.

Bill Wyman was the unofficial band historian, maybe he gave Keith Richards some information on what he did at any particular time.

 

[ASC1951]

I'm quite looking forward to picking up a copy of what will doubtless come to be seen as the most significant cultural work of both the 20th and 21st centuries.

If that isn't irony, you are completely bonkers.

The Stones' entire oeuvre wouldn't rate any higher than 'briefly significant', let alone a ghost-written diary from someone looking out from the inside.

 

[Andy in Sig]

Oh dear ... it's meant to be mildly humourous. That said it contains an element of truth for me as I think some of the Stones' stuff is unparalleled and in certain areas is never likely to be matched. I would recommend Get Yer Ya Yas Out, Sticky Fingers, It's Only Rock and Roll (containing Dance Little Sister which for me is the track which defines what the Stones and especially Keith Richards are about), Let It Bleed (perhaps their best single album), Exile On Main St and Beggars Banquet. Of course if you can't stand the Stones then none of that will apply.

There are other people who some hold to be massively significant who I reckon will vanish like mist warming in the sun e.g. Bowie, Queen, Elton Bog etc.

Anyway, I like the old sod and he's up there in my cultural pantheon alongside Coleman Hawkins, Thelonius Monk, Jeff Beck and Rory Gallagher.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Here's a preview of the book -

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/...e-story-of-his-life-as-a--beatle-20070802322/

 

[KEEF]

Here's a preview of the book -

http://www.thedailym...le-20070802322/

Just how I remember it