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Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English musician, songwriter, singer and record producer who is an original member, guitarist, secondary vocalist, and co-principal songwriter of the Rolling Stones. His songwriting partnership with the band's lead vocalist Mick Jagger is one of the most successful in history. His career spans over ...
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Keith Richards (born December 18, 1943, Dartford, Kent, England) British musician and guitar innovator best known as the guitarist and songwriter for the British rock band the Rolling Stones. The hard-edged, energetic rock act, one of the most successful in music history, owes much of its success to Richards’s chord-heavy playing style, which is rooted in the rhythms and techniques of early 20th-century blues music. Richards is also known for his struggles with drug addiction and his several drug-related arrests. The prominent American music magazine Rolling Stone ranked Richards as the fourth best guitarist of all time on its top 100 guitarists list in 2015.
Richards is the son of Bert Richards, a factory worker, and Doris (née Dupree) Richards. Doris Richards introduced her son to jazz music and encouraged him to perform; when he was an early adolescent, Keith Richards was part of a Westminster Abbey choir that sang for Queen Elizabeth II. He first met British singer, and future songwriting partner, Mick Jagger in 1951, when both attended Wentworth Primary School. Richards lost touch with Jagger (who transferred to Dartford Grammar School) and went on to Dartford Technical High School for Boys, from which he was expelled in 1959 for truancy. Richards later attended the Sidcup Art College, and a chance meeting at a train station in Kent in 1961 brought him together once again with Jagger (who was studying at the London School of Economics). It was then when Richards and Jagger talked about starting up the band that would become the Rolling Stones.
Richards’s playing style is influenced heavily by the works of early 20th-century American blues players, especially those of blues musician Robert Johnson and rock-and-roll pioneer Chuck Berry. Although Richards occasionally plays lead lines, he serves mostly as the Rolling Stones’ rhythm guitarist, preferring to weave his guitar lines with a seco...
Richards, Jagger, and fellow British musicians Brian Jones (multiple instruments), Charlie Watts (drums), and Bill Wyman (bass) formed the Rolling Stones in 1962. At the outset the band did not write original songs, choosing instead to cover older blues songs (see the Rolling Stones: Formation and early music). Their manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, demanded that the band begin writing original songs. The Rolling Stones’ first top 10 hits, “Time Is on My Side” and“The Last Time,” came in 1964 and 1965, respectively. The band’s first number one hit, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” with songwriting credits to Jagger and Richards, came in 1965, and these hits would be followed by several more in the subsequent decades.
Of the band’s numerous studio and live recordings, the works released during the period between 1968 and 1972 marked the Rolling Stones’ creative peak. It included “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” which was released as a non-album single in 1968; the albums Let It Bleed (1969), Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! (1970), and Sticky Fingers (1971); and the double album Exile on Main Street (1972). Later notable albums—such as Some Girls (1978), Tattoo You (1981), and Voodoo Lounge (1994)—produced additional hit songs (such as “Shattered” [1978] and “Start Me Up” [1981]); however, the quality of the music never matched that of the Rolling Stones’ peak period (see also the Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street).
Richards’s songwriting style, like that of his guitar playing, is deeply influenced by American blues music and focuses on blues-derived hard rock. However, through the years, Richards has borrowed from other genres, including country, psychedelic rock, funk, disco, and gospel. These influences were ported into a number of his solo works, including his studio albums Talk Is Cheap (1988), Main Offender (1992), and Crosseyed Heart (2015). Such influences can also be found in his collaborations with other musicians, such as those with Eric Clapton, Ron Wood (who joined the Rolling Stones in 1975), Tom Waits, George Jones, and Richards’s backing band the X-Pensive Winos.
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His bouts with drug abuse have threatened to overshadow his musical output at times. Richards has struggled with heroin and other illegal drugs throughout his life, and he has been arrested several times for drug possession. He has been charged five times, and, after a police raid on his estate in West Sussex, England, in 1967, Richards was sentenced to one year in prison, but his sentence was overturned one month later. In 1977 Richards was arrested in Toronto and charged with “possession of heroin for the purpose of trafficking,” for which, if convicted, he could have received a prison sentence from seven years to life; however, the charge was later reduced to “simple possession of heroin.”
Richards has fathered five children, three with Italian actress Anita Pallenberg and two with American model Patti Hansen, the latter of whom he married in 1983. One of his children, Tara, died as an infant. He has appeared in several films, the most famous being Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007) and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), in which he played Captain Teague, the father of Captain Jack Sparrow (played by American actor Johnny Depp). He has cowritten two books, Life (2010), his memoir, and Gus & Me: The Story of My Granddad and My First Guitar (2014), a children’s book. Richards continues to perform with the Rolling Stones, with the band’s latest studio album, Hackney Diamonds, set for release in October 2023. Richards was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 as a member of the Rolling Stones.
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Sep 10, 2021 · Keith Richards was born in Dartford, Kent on 18th December 1943. He celebrated his 78th birthday in 2021. He is the only child of Doris Maud Lydia and Herbert William Richards, a factory worker who was wounded in the Second World War. How did Keith Richards get his start in music? The Rolling Stones at The Public Hall, Preston in 1964.
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 Dartford, Kent, through to his success with the Rolling Stones and his current life in Connecticut.
Apr 27, 2020 · Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. One of the most iconic rock songs of all time may never have existed if it weren’t for the Rolling Stones ' Keith Richards’ uncanny ability to write ...
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