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The long-awaited autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Ladies and gentlemen: Keith Richards. 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 Stoness 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. A few words about book's author.

Keith Richards was born in London in 1943. A guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, and cofounder of the Rolling Stones, he has also released solo albums with his band, The X-Pensive Winos.

He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Patti Hansen. James Fox was born in Washington, D.C., in 1945 and has known Keith Richards since the early 1970s when he was a journalist for the Sunday Times in London. His books include the international bestseller White Mischief. He lives in London with his wife anones. The Rolling Stoness 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. Doc Software Abb here. 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.

Publication date 26 October 2010 Media type book, audio CD, e-book Pages 564 Life is a memoir by the guitarist, written with the assistance of journalist. Published in October 2010, in hardback, audio and e-book formats, the book chronicles Richards' love of music, charting influences from his mother and maternal grandfather, through his discovery of blues music, the founding of the Rolling Stones, his often turbulent relationship with, his involvement with drugs, and his relationships with women including and his wife. Richards also released, a compilation of his work with the X-Pensive Winos, at the same time.

It has been reported that publisher paid an advance of $7.3 million, after seeing a ten-page extract. Co-writer James Fox interviewed Richards and his associates over a period of five years to produce the book. Life was generally well received by critics and topped non-fiction list in the first week of release. Richards's memoir includes the founding of The Rolling Stones in 1962; he is pictured here in 1965 before a Stones show Life is a memoir covering Keith Richards's life, starting with his childhood in, Kent, through to his success with the Rolling Stones and his current life in. His interest in music was triggered by his mother, Doris, who played records by, and, and his maternal grandfather, Augustus Theodore Dupree, a former player, who encouraged him to take up the guitar. In his teens he met up with, who he had known in primary school, and discovered that they both shared a love of blues music. In the early 1960s Richards moved into a London flat, shared with Jagger and.