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My Take
Keith Richards fascinates me less for his survival legend than for his restraint. Anyone can play loud; almost nobody knows what to leave out, and Richards built half a century of riffs on that negative space. His partnership with Mick Jagger gets the headlines, but I hear the Stones' DNA mostly in his rhythm guitar — loose, behind the beat, somehow both sloppy and inevitable. That he sat down and wrote a frank autobiography after decades of being mythologized tells me he understands his own legend better than his biographers do. He is rock and roll's most reliable unreliable narrator, and I mean that as the highest compliment.
Overview
Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English musician, songwriter, singer and record producer who is an original member, guitarist, secondary vocalist, and co-principal songwriter of the Rolling Stones. His songwriting partnership with the band's lead vocalist Sir Mick Jagger is one of the most successful in history.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Keith Richards
- Name (Japanese)
- キース・リチャーズ
- Reading
- きーす・りちゃーず
- Born
- December 18, 1943 (age 82)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Goat
- Origin
- Dartford, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- record producer / singer-songwriter / guitarist / composer / autobiographer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Sidcup Art College
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.