Keith Richards is getting on the publicity trail for his much anticipated autobiography, Life, which is due out later this month. Naturally, the wild man of rock is struggling to come up with stories to top the outrageous lifestyle for which he was known, but has released a few juicy tidbits to entice fans to snap up the book. He’s revealed that he and John Lennon once took a three day drug fuelled bender across the UK, while he still refused to be seen in Lennon’s psychedelic Rolls Royce. “We were in my Bentley,” Keef says, most likely struggling to remember. “I said, ‘I’m not going on a trip with you in that goddam psychedelic Rolls Royce. Let’s go more discreetly in my little blue Bentley’.”
“What happened neither John nor I could ever remember. We must have been on something exceptional. There was one young lady with us at least, and a chauffeur because we were in no driving condition. And we were just playing sounds.” The human rif has also aditted carrying guns during the worst of his heroin addiction in the 70s, supposedly for his own protection, as well as to avoid getting ripped off by dealers. “I’ve carried a piece or two now and again – most of that was to do with the heroin business and being involved in, like, scoring. Especially in America, it bodes you well to be armed. A .38 Smith and Wesson Airweight revolver – that is the fucking gun. No safety [catch] on it.”
