Keith Richards Snorted His Father
April 5th, 2007
Keith Richards has always had a reputation for using a host of illegal substances but his confession to British magazine NME tops everything.
“The strangest thing I’ve ever tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little blow. My Dad wouldn’t have cared.” Richards, member of The Rolling Stones, who was on the “Who’s Likely to Die” list for 10 years has had a reputation for being one of rock’s wild men. One of the most concerning drug related event was Richard’s arrest in Toronto, Canada for importing narcotics. He was found to have 22 grams of heroin in his possession. He avoided a 3 year minimum sentence by performing two benefit concerts for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind in 1979.
Richards will tour with The Rolling Stones in Europe in 2007 with the first concert to be in Belgium in June. Richards has since denied mixing his father’s ashes with cocaine and chalked it up to a joke but the magazine stands by its interview claiming that Richards did not offer the information as a joke but was very serious at the time.
