Life
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4.4 • 138 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The long-awaited autobiography of Keith Richards, guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones.
With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life.
Now, at last, the man himself tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones's first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to his enduring image as an outlaw folk hero. Creating immortal riffs like the ones in "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women." His relationship with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the U.S., isolation and addiction. Falling in love with Patti Hansen. Estrangement from Jagger and subsequent reconciliation. Marriage, family, solo albums and Xpensive Winos, and the road that goes on forever.
With his trademark disarming honesty, Keith Richard brings us the story of a life we have all longed to know more of, unfettered, fearless, and true.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Keith Richards has never played by the rules—so it makes sense that the audiobook of his best-selling memoir would toy with the format. Three different narrators help fling Life off the page, including the notorious hellraiser himself. Johnny Depp, who famously based his inebriated swashbuckler Captain Jack Sparrow on Keef, is an inspired choice to voice the guitar hero’s early and later years. But it’s cult Irish singer Joe Hurley who steals the show, delivering a remarkably accurate impersonation of Richards’ weathered, whisky-soaked tones while recounting several decades’ worth of pure rock ’n’ roll excess.
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Great read. Some really great history of rock and roll. He’s a real life character. Great stories. I recommend it.
Beyond Amazing
The stories behind one of (if not THE) most legendary Rock N’ Roll band in the world, and it’s most mysterious and interesting member. From the extreme highs of the music, the drugs, the women, and the life in general... this book does not disappoint. From humble beginnings being born in war-torn England to a world traveler whose persona became the very definition of “Rock Star”. This man is a multi-national treasure who has lived one of the most interesting lives I’ve ever read about. Trust me, once you get into it you won’t be able to put the book down.