Keith Richards

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.

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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)

Origin

Dartford, United Kingdom

Occupation

record producer / singer-songwriter / guitarist / composer / autobiographer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Goat

University

Sidcup Art College

• Official sitehttps://www.keithrichards.com
• Xhttps://x.com/officialKeef
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Richards
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189599

Tags

• record producer
• singer-songwriter
• guitarist

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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