KEITH RICHARDS – Happy Birthday Born 18th December 1943

Posted: December 19, 2014 in MUSIC
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6W4kMNBsJs#t=14

Acknowledged as perhaps the greatest rhythm guitarist in rock & roll,  Keith Richards is even more legendary for his near-miraculous ability to survive the most debauched excesses of the rock & roll lifestyle. His prodigious consumption of drugs and alcohol has been well documented, and would likely have destroyed anyone with a less amazing endurance level.

Keith Richards born 18 December 1943 is an English musician, songwriter and founding member of the English rock band The Rolling Stones. Richards had created “rock’s greatest single body of riffs,” ranking him 4th on its list of 100 best guitarists. Fourteen songs that Richards wrote with the Rolling Stones’ lead vocalist Mick Jagger are listed among “500 Greatest Songs of All Time.” Keith Richards’s notoriety for illicit drug use stems in part from several drug busts during the late 1960s and 1970s and his candor regarding his addiction to, and eventual abstinence from, heroin.

 

 

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