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Mick Jagger Keith Richards The Rolling Stones performed at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada to a huge sell out crowd. The legends are as strong as ever. Photo By: Erik Kabik Photography/ MediaPunch

**** THE GLORIOUS CORNER Story By: G. H. HARDING **** Keith Richards KEITH’S KIDS – Hell hath frozen over … twice in fact. Keith Richards has written a children’s book. Keith did do a double and triple take when his publisher approached him with the idea that flowered into Gus & Me: The Story of My Granddad and My First Guitar (Little, Brown Books For Young Readers), the new picture book featuring illustrations by Theodora Richards, the elder of his two daughters with wife/model Patti Hansen. "This one came around sort of behind my back," says Richards. "It happened to coincide with my first daughter, Angela" — from a previous relationship — "having my fifth grandchild (Otto, now 9 ). And I realized that I wanted to give my own grandfather his due for having turned me on to music." There was also the chance to work with Theodora, 29, whom he chose to provide art for the book. "With those three ingred...

Keith Richards Rolling Stone Icon Keith Richards has 3,000 guitars and only has time to play ten of them.The ageless rocker is sad he cannot use all of his prized instruments, so is considering opening a museum to put the collection on view. He says, "I’ve probably got too many guitars," "I’ve only got one pair of hands. "It’s an incredible collection of instruments, beautiful instruments. But I can’t play them all. "Maybe I will give them away or make a museum."

Times Square Marijuana Another Rolling Stones icon Keith Richards is refusing to turn his back on drugs completely after a number of brushes with death and he still smokes marijuana "all the damn time".The guitarist was addicted to heroin at the height of the hell raising band’s 1970s heyday.But his bad experiences haven’t deterred him from maintaining one last illegal vice: "People thought I was going to die. I never did - as you can see. The drugs? Oh yeah, they were great."Drugs now? it’s a very dodgy subject. I smoke my head off. I smoke weed all the damn time."There, you’ ve got it. But that’s my benign weed. That’s all I take, that’s all I do. But I do smoke - and I’ ve got some really good hash." And Richards has a grudge with officials who have banned smoking in public spaces in Britain, Ireland, California and New York: "This worldwide smoking ban is draconian, socially, politically-correct bullshit. They’ll get over it.It’s like Prohibit...

Keith Richards believes he will live to 150.The 63-year-old Rolling Stones rocker says death is a "long way off" after amazed doctors told him his heart, liver and kidneys were "all perfect", despite his legendary rock 'n' roll lifestyle. He told Mojo magazine: "I'm looking to be a good 150 before I think about croaking. It's a long way off."Hey, when I'm gone, I'm done. Everybody else can decide what to do with me. My folks know what's what."I've never even thought about it. I mean I don't want to be paraded down Whitehall on a f***ing carriage. I don't want nothing."The guitarist also revealed he serenaded his beloved 91-year-old mother Doris in her final days before she lost her battle to cancer in April this year. He said: "I sat on the end of her bed for two days before she kicked the bucket. I brought round a guitar and sat there and played to her."Keith also cleared up the confusion surrou...

Keith Richards is set to make over $7 million from his autobiography.The Rolling Stones rocker has sparked a bidding war for his memoirs and he is now set to receive a staggering $7.3 million in advance. Publishers Harper Collins and Little Brown are the two favourites for the tome.The 63-year-old guitarist, his agent Ed Victor and his manager for three decades, Jane Rose, will now have to choose a 'winner' between them. As the publishers have matched each other on the price, the decision will be made on who can offer the best marketing plan and the editor they can offer the rocker and collaborating writer James Fox. A source said: "Price is no longer an issue."Whatever the outcome Richards is certain to be happy, as he stated before the bidding war he wanted to surpass the $5 million advance rival guitarist Eric Clapton received for his book, due out this October. Hell raiser Richards was paid $1.6 million for his diaries in the 80s by publisher Bantam, however, he ...

Johnny Depp has a same sex crush on Keith Richards. Johnny, who stars as Captain Jack Sparrow in 'Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End' alongside Keith, says the Rolling Stones guitarist is a "god". Johnny told Rolling Stone magazine: "He was one of the people I admired for what he's done and how he's handled it. Forty-whatever years of being this god. And he's just cool."You think, 'Who's the greatest rock 'n' roll star? Who's that charismatic and interesting?' And you go, 'Oh - it's Keith, isn't it?' "Keith, who plays Sparrow's father Captain Teague in the movie, revealed he fell asleep while watching the second pirate adventure instalment. He revealed: "I have seen the first two 'Pirates.' movies. Oh yeah. How can you not with your grand kids around? I saw the first film when it came out. But I admit I did fall asleep during the second one, but I'd been up for three day...

Pirates Johnny Depp and Keith Richards ROLLING STONE KEITH RICHARDS so impressed JOHNNY DEPP with his acting skills on the latest Pirates Of The Caribbean movie, the actor now calls him ‘Two-Take Richards’. Richards plays Depp’s pirate character’s father in new sequel At World’s End, and filmmakers were amazed at the wildman rocker’s acting talents. Depp says, "The anticipation was mad. Everyone was like, ‘Is he going to do it? Is he going to do it?’ "And then whammo, he arrived at eight o’clock in the morning, totally prepped and ready to go."Obviously, Keith Richards - the guy invented charisma. But what I didn’t expect was he was going to be such a great actor. I started calling him ‘Two-Take Richards’."It was like this gunslinger arrived in town, charmed all the women and impressed all the men, and then split."

Rolling Stones Keith Richards Keith Richards' mother has died. Doris Richards peacefully passed away on Saturday night aged 91 after a lengthy battle with cancer. Rolling Stones guitarist Keith, 63, had been keeping a bedside vigil at the clinic in London's Harley Street where she was treated before her death.The band's spokesman Bernard Doherty said: "Doris Richards, aged 91, mother of Rolling Stone Keith Richards, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Saturday 21 April 2007."Family and friends request that their privacy is respected at this time."Doris separated from Keith's father Bert - who passed away in 2002 aged 84 -in 1962. Before her death she had been living with the rocker's stepfather William in Kent. Doris was responsible for buying her son his first guitar on his 15th birthday, setting him on the path to rock 'n' roll success. Her father, Gus Dupree, toured the UK as a jazz musician and gave grandson Keith his earliest guitar l...

Rolling Stones Keith Richards has done it all ! Keith Richards has acknowledged consuming a raft of illegal substances in his time, but this may top them all. In comments published today, the 63-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist said he had snorted his father's ashes mixed with cocaine. "The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," Richards was quoted as saying by British music magazine NME. "He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared," he said. "... It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive." Richards' father, Bert, died in 2002, at 84. Richards, one of rock's legendary wild men, told the magazine that his survival was the result of luck, and advised young musicians against trying to emulate him. "I did it because that was the way I did it. Now people think it's a way of life," he was quoted as saying. "I've...

Sir Mick Jagger says Keith Richards' boast that he created the stage set for The Rolling Stones' 'A Bigger Bang' world tour is a lie. During a live web cast announcing the band's forthcoming European tour, Mick said: "The set is amazing. It's really quite beautiful."Keith has been claiming he came up with most of the ideas for it."That's a good one! I think he's been telling porky pies (British slang for lies)."The legendary rockers will play more than 20 shows across Europe, kicking off in Belgium in June and finishing in London on August 21. Mick, 63, said: "I never get tired. I'm really looking forward to it."In reference to Keith - who last year had to have brain surgery after falling out of a coconut tree in Fiji causing the band to cancel several dates - Mick joked: "I'll nail him to the nearest room. I don't think he'll be climbing any palm trees."