Keith Richards on Drug Use and the Rolling Stones

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/10/29/Stones_Guitarist_Keith_Richards_Talks_About_Life

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards discusses his personal history with heroin and other hard drugs. "Getting in is easy, getting out is difficult," says Richards. "It took me a while."

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Outlaw, hellraiser, and one of rock music's most gifted and influential guitarists, Keith Richards has forged a life that most of us can only imagine--and often envy. Amazingly he's lived to tell about it, and now this rock Icon has given us the definitive rock autobiography.

In Life, the man himself tells about life lived fast and hard in the creative hurricane--from his days as a young boy growing up in a council estate, listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, to joining forces with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones to form The Rolling Stones.

In conversation with Anthony DeCurtis, a music journalist, and contributing editor for Rolling Stone, Keith Richards will discuss the storied journey of the Rolling Stones, as well as his passion for books and for history. He will chronicle how he created the revolutionary, high-octane riffs that defined "Jumping Jack Flash," "Gimme Shelter" and "Honky Tonk Woman," his affair with the equally infamous Anita Pallenberg (the mother of three of his children), and the tragic death of Brian Jones. He will also discuss the personal values that have made him a proud, successful father, and a happily married man for more than twenty-five years.

From falling in love with his wife Patti Hansen to his relationship with his "brother," Mick Jagger, we follow Keef on the ultimate road trip we have all longed to know more about-- the story of an unfettered, fearless, on-the-edge life lived to the absolute fullest. - NYPL

Keith Richards is a guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer, best-selling author and actor, best known as a founding member of the Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is known for his innovative rhythm playing and ranked 10th in Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 "Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time." With songwriting partner and Rolling Stones lead vocalist Mick Jagger, Richards has written and recorded hundreds of songs, fourteen of which are listed by Rolling Stone magazine among the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time."

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[anteracmacash]

I'd rather have a drugged up Keith Richards doing great music then having to take drugs to be able to listen to todays music.

[kingdingle]

@Cilian12 Don't worry, you won't end up like him. There's only one.

[upaste]

someone once said when Keith takes drugs the drugs die.

[scottabreitbarth]

@anteracmacash Maybe if we gave them more drugs, they'd magically get better, eh?

[excelerater]

@dsfsdfsdfsdf80 ROFL

[WhatFuckingUsernameI]

@elrenato82: And I know someone who has to smoke pot every day in order to stay relatively normal.

[amanda36619]

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[username1918]

@dsfsdfsdfsdf80 ha

[dgb111]

Thanks to Keith and all the other rock stars that over the years have created the pervasive drug culture that has brought us the drug wars, drug cartels, drug gangs, murder and mayhem that today plagues much of the world. Good job that!

[DrWoodbineSimms]

@dsfsdfsdfsdf80 A Keef troll? Interesting.

[bedchamp]

@terrryc Yeah Joan looks so lifelike.