Keith Richards: 'I snorted my father'

[Hardcore Weapon Smasher]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070403/ap_en_..._keith_richards

Keith rules.

[Gene Kiniski]

That's great. Something about the imagine of Keith sitting dark room alone with a picture of his father, the urn, and a razor blade makes me laugh.

[livid]

What I want to know is how he told the rest of the family that he snorted his father's ashes.

Oh and this just cements the fact that Keith is a bona fide badass.

[Guest JACQUES OF MONTREAL]

No coconut tree mention yet?

[Gene Kiniski]

What I want to know is how he told the rest of the family that he snorted his father's ashes.

Oh and this just cements the fact that Keith is a bona fide badass.

Edited April 4, 2007 by Gene Kiniski

[zero]

Sadly... it's not true. From MTV.com

No doubt you've seen the Keith Richards story that exploded across the media on Tuesday — the one where the Rolling Stones guitarist told Britain's New Musical Express that after the death and cremation of his father, Bert, in 2002, he mixed his dad's ashes with some cocaine and snorted them up.

Clearly, this is one of the all-time great rock and roll stories. Unfortunately, it's not true.

It seems to have been either a joke — one that sailed right over the NME interviewer's head — or a misunderstanding of Richards' famously hard-to-parse verbal style.

In any event, this dodgy quote was picked up by a horde of newspapers, wire services and TV and online outlets on both sides of the Atlantic, among them Reuters, Forbes, Google, Breitbart and the Drudge Report. And evidently, none of them attempted to confirm the story with a Richards representative.

MTV News took the novel step of contacting Richards' manager, who responded with what sounded like a sigh, but was in fact an e-mail. The dad-snorting story, she explained, was, quote, "said in jest ... can't believe anyone took [it] seriously."

And now, this just in from Keith Richards himself, who says, "The complete story is lost in the usual slanting." As for the actual use to which his father's ashes were put, he said, "The truth of the matter is that I planted a sturdy English Oak. I took the ... ashes [and sprinkled them beneath the tree], and he is now growing oak trees and he would love me for it!"

As for the ashes-and-cocaine-snorting story he told to the NME, Richards said, "I was trying to say how tight Bert and I were — that tight!

"I wouldn't take cocaine at this point in my life," he added, "unless I wished to commit suicide."

[Vilge Duin]

Heard it and honestly figured it was BS.

Kind of funny that MTV of all things went and verified the story while no one else bothered to.

Would be hilarious if true though, and a wee bit morbid.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Yeah this legend has been on Snopes.com for a while, it's been attributed to a number of people iirc.