Life

With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the world, and over four decades he lived the original rock and roll life: taking the chances he wanted, speaking his mind, and making it all work in a way that no one before him had ever done.

Now, at last, the man himself tells us the story of life in the crossfire hurricane. And what a life. Creating immortal riffs such as the ones in 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' and 'Street Fighting Man' and 'Honky Tonk Women'. Falling in love with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Marriage, family and the road that goes on forever.

In a voice that is uniquely and intimately his own, with the disarming honesty that has always been his trademark, Keith Richards brings us the essential life story of our times.

Short-listed for Galaxy National Book Awards: Telegraph Biography of the Year 2011

“This is a good, gossipy read. But the best stuff is Keith on music. Check out his wonderful passage on Charlie Watt's drumming.”

A masterpiece, the most sustained, colourful and rambunctious rampage through his [Keith's] 67 years imaginable THE WORD MAGAZINE
Funny, poignant, brutally honest, engagingly colloquial, Life is pure Keith Richards, as good a rock memoir as you are likely to read. SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Densely packed with incident ... immensely readable SUNDAY TIMES
This is a good, gossipy read. But the best stuff is Keith on music. Check out his wonderful passage on Charlie Watt's drumming EVENING STANDARD
Dark, honest and gleefully indiscreet from the first page to the last, it puts some of today's painfully dull musicians to shame SHORTLIST
Once you begin this, wild, wild horses couldn't drag you away INDEPENDENT
A hilarious, ribald and often shocking tale told elegantly and with much candidness CATHOLIC HERALD
I was hooked from the start HARPER'S BAZAAR
LIFE may be the best rock star autobiography ever CLASSIC ROCK
A memoir so full of incident it feels like the author's lived three lives, not one SUNDAY TIMES
The fact that Keith is still alive to tell the story is incredible SUNDAY EXPRESS S MAGAZINE
LIFE is pretty faultless as the quintessential depiction of the man in full and his extraordinary life and times to date THE TIMES
Electrifying... the intimate and moving story of one man's long strange trip over the decades, told in dead-on, visceral prose without any of the pretence, caution or self-consciousness that usually attend great artists sitting for their self-portraits NEW YORK TIMES
Keith comes across as a thoroughly decent man, with just a hint of the devil. His relationship with Jagger is complex and fascinating EVENING STANDARD
a masterpiece, the most sustained, colourful and rambunctious rampage through his [Keith's] 67 years imaginable -- Mark Ellen THE WORD
densely packed with incident ... immensely readable -- Lynn Barber SUNDAY TIMES
Funny, poignant, brutally honest, engagingly colloquial, Life is pure Keith Richards, as good a rock memoir as you are likely to read. -- Sally Cousins SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
-- William Leith LONDON EVENING STANDARD
Dark, honest and gleefully indiscreet from the first page to the last, it puts some of today's painfully dull musicians to shame. SHORTLIST
Once you begin this, wild, wild horses couldn't drag you away. -- Boyd Tonkin INDEPENDENT
A hilarious, ribald and often shocking tale told elegantly and with much candidness. CATHOLIC HERALD
I was hooked from the start -- Giles Deacon HARPER'S BAZAAR
Life may be the best rock star autobiography ever. CLASSIC ROCK
A memoir so full of incident it feels like the author's lived three lives, not one. SUNDAY TIMES
The fact that Keith is still alive to tell the story is incredible. -- Chris Tarrant THE SUNDAY EXPRESS S MAGAZINE

Born in Dartford in Kent in December 1943, Keith Richards continues to compose, play songs and tour with the Rolling Stones.

With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the world, and over four decades he lived the original rock and roll life: taking the chances he wanted, speaking his mind, and making it all work in a way that no one before him had ever done.Now, at last, the man himself tells us the story of life in the crossfire hurricane. And what a life. Creating immortal riffs such as the ones in 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' and 'Street Fighting Man' and 'Honky Tonk Women'. Falling in love with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Marriage, family and the road that goes on forever.In a voice that is uniquely and intimately his own, with the disarming honesty that has always been his trademark, Keith Richards brings us the essential life story of our times.

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