he’s still alive, must be his character; with his life style, it has nothing to do with it. Keith Richards young, drugs consumed, only alcohol and amphetamine, also his father had been an alcoholic. In the course of his career, the son took more and more drugs and more and more often. In the seventies, the “New Musical Express described him” as a “death warmed over”: resuscitated death.
That was not an exaggeration. On images, Videos and even on-stage Keith Richards looked worse and worse. He fixte, he kokste, he smoked, he drank. Once he fell from a palm tree, another Time, of a ladder. He had suffered electric shocks and fires, with a green face in front of the door. He long could that week and celebrate. “Keith is not asleep, he loses consciousness,” says his Mitgitarrist Ron Wood. Fainting at the end of the excesses.
But Richards stood up again and made more. Soon, the Rolling Stones begin another US tour through 14 cities before a total of one Million people. Anyone who has seen the Band last summer at the Letzigrund play, listened to a musician at the height of your material and a fantastic concert. “The only species that will survive a doomsday,” said the comedian Robin Williams, “are the cockroaches and Keith Richards.”
And now, the: How the magazine “Rolling Stone” reported that drinking Keith Richards for a year, no more alcohol. Or almost: “He has reduced Drinking heavily”, it says in the article. In the light of the Interviews , the guitarist graduated in the liquid state until he could barely talk any more, a strict limitation on a waiver.
He makes no deal about it, but it suits him: Keith Richards loves laconically. As for the Riffs that he is sawing on the guitar, it reduces everything to the Maximum. A Journalist asked how he would define the music, he said: “Music fucks with silence.” As he was preparing to concerts, asked another, the answer is: “I guard.” And why it clears now only the occasional wine or beer glass, it has a handy explanation: The Drink, he says, “bored me”. In addition, he will find sobriety interesting. “He is less capricious than in the past”, says Ronnie Wood, also dry.
Keith Richards has stopped drinking alcohol, what comes next: life without a Marlboro? Yoga on the Mat? As you get to know him, he will remain himself. He is one of the few Stars from the sixties, paying homage, never a Belief, a Guru admired, or of a sect have served. On his way, he remained in the stupor sober enough to distrust them all, the happiness promised. It the Music makes the most happy. He has with his colleagues in common, the want to make more. And a good evening to your competitors at every wall play. In the past years Keith Richards and Mick Jagger have written Songs, a new Album is planned for next year.
We hope, of course, the result will not to us sober.
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Created: 13.12.2018, 22:31 PM
