Keith Richards: 'I Snorted My Father'

[NandoRick]

Apr 3 03:14 PM US/Eastern

LONDON (AP) - Keith Richards has acknowledged consuming a raft of illegal substances in his time, but this may top them all.

In comments published Tuesday, the 63-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist said he had snorted his father's ashes mixed with cocaine.

"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," Richards was quoted as saying by British music magazine NME.

"He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared," he said. "... It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."

Richards' father, Bert, died in 2002, at 84.

Richards, one of rock's legendary wild men, told the magazine that his survival was the result of luck, and advised young musicians against trying to emulate him.

"I did it because that was the way I did it. Now people think it's a way of life," he was quoted as saying.

"I've no pretensions about immortality," he added. "I'm the same as everyone ... just kind of lucky.

"I was No. 1 on the `who's likely to die' list for 10 years. I mean, I was really disappointed when I fell off the list," Richards said.

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[fudgeflaps]

I snorted a line of geese once.

Not as good as a pink kitten.

[steve56]

What a twat.

[one eyed jack]

This sounds profoundly amusing. I'm sure in some culture many miles away there is a tribe that believes in the consumption of their dead ones to absorb their spirit, knowledge and wisdom.

maybe the ghost of Keiths father lives in him. Lets face it he is a talented so and so.

Its not my bag though if you pardon the pun.

[The Last Word]

Perhaps when the drummer dies he'll have a line of Charlie.

[davewells]

Blimey, one of my hero's and I kinda have something in common with him. When we spread my dad's ashes on one of his favorite spots a gust of wind blew some of it back over us and yes a bit went up me nose and in my eyes.

[stripeysydney]

Legend has it that Johnny Rotten dropped the urn that contained Sid Vicious'es ashes all over Heathrow Airport, which then blew everywhere..

[fudgeflaps]

Me or Richards?

!wink!

[Ace]

It was all a joke which no doubt Mick Jagger will try and outdo by claiming he sniffed his mums knickers

[Ace]

stripeysydney wrote:

> Legend has it that Johnny Rotten dropped the urn that contained
> Sid Vicious'es ashes all over Heathrow Airport, which then blew
> everywhere..


Yes, its a shit urban legend. Anne Beverley had Sids ashes after his cremation in New York, the real supposed legend is that she spinkled them over Nancys grave, as Nancys mum forbid Anne Beverley from having them legally interned at Nancys grave.

As much as I love Lydon, he comes out with some bollocks at times