Keith Richards 'snorted father's ashes'

janbo1960 · Post by **janbo1960** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:03 pm

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has admitted snorting his own father's ashes.

"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father, I snorted my father," he told British music paper New Musical Express (NME).

"He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow (cocaine). My dad wouldn't have cared.

"It went down pretty well and I'm still alive."

Richards, whose father Bert died in 2002 at the age of 84, has been notorious for his drug use since the Stones became worldwide stars in the 1960s.

But he also directed an angry tirade at fellow drug-user Pete Doherty, the frontman of British band Babyshambles currently dating supermodel Kate Moss, who he predicted could be killed by his love of narcotics.

"My advice for Pete Doherty is that he should ... leave her," he said.

"I don't know the man, all I know is he's pushing his luck and there it is, but so is Kate, who I know very well.

"Kate wants to play with bad boys and she's done one, and then another one, and then another one. Badabing, badabing, badaboom. She'll live, the boys will die."

As well as co-writing hits such as Brown Sugar and Satisfaction, Richards has become known in recent years as the inspiration for Johnny Depp's character Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean films.

girldorksrule · Post by **girldorksrule** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:04 pm

Hysterical.

Post by **eefanincan** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:45 am

If it's true, that's just a sick thing to do.

major.tom · Post by **major.tom** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:55 am

He's probably snorted everything else...

IRiSHMaFIA · Post by **IRiSHMaFIA** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:52 am

eefanincan wrote:If it's true, that's just a sick thing to do.

I with you all the way there eefan. That's pretty sick, not to mention disrespectful.

Brown Sauce · Post by **Brown Sauce** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:01 am

I heard this on the radio this morning, and thought, "ah, it's him again". But I also must have thought that he did this some years ago, when he was a real bad boy, because I was so surprised that he did it sometime in the last 5 years.

Will the geezer last as long as his dear ol' dad, he has probably looked older than him for a couple of decades ...

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:33 pm

I almost pissed myself when I heard this....very rude, but still, very funny....

Lostinthestates · Post by **Lostinthestates** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:19 pm

What a plonker!!!

Post by **Skylace** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:26 pm

I heard on the news this morning that he may have said it all as a publicity stunt. Who knows. But I wouldn't put it past him.

Post by **faceless** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:30 pm

"He's dead and he's still getting up my nose!"

vegas · Post by **vegas** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:22 pm

Looks like an April fool joke

fritz · Post by **fritz** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:38 pm

faceless wrote:"He's dead and he's still getting up my nose!"

That hit it right on head or the nose

girldorksrule · Post by **girldorksrule** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 5:28 pm

I don't find it rude at all actually. When I was getting high, it was honorable and respectful to do shit like that. We all had an agreement that when I died, everyone would smoke my lungs. Gross, but true.

IRiSHMaFIA · Post by **IRiSHMaFIA** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:37 pm

Skylace wrote:I heard on the news this morning that he may have said it all as a publicity stunt. Who knows. But I wouldn't put it past him.

I've seen that on the news a few times and he's out and out denying he did. Still it sounds like something that muppet would do. If he thought he could get high off it I'm sure he'd give it a go if his st-ash ran dry.

Aja · Post by **Aja** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:13 pm

Once A C&NT Always A C&NT