Product Description

He is the Human Riff, guitarist with The Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World - and a man of Wildean sagacity and trenchancy...'I wouldn't warm to Chuck Berry if he was cremated next to me.' 'I've never had problems with drugs. Only with policemen.' On Elton John singing 'Candle in the Wind': 'Writes songs for dead blondes.' 'Rolling Stones, I have a question: will this be your last tour?' Keith Richards: 'Yes, and the next five.' On Ronnie Wood: 'I've known him stoned out of his brain, and I've known him straight sober. Quite honestly, there's very little difference.' 'The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father, I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared. It went down pretty well and I'm still alive.' On having shot Ronnie Wood's budgerigar in its cage: 'Sorry, Ronnie - I didn't think it was real.' Mark Blake is the author of Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd (Aurum 2007), and a contributing editor of Mojo and Q magazines. He lives in Croydon.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #141342 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 96 pages

Review
`[this] fine collection on bon mots from the great man himself.' --Classic Rock, November, 2008

Review
`a lifetime of genius-tinged ramblings'

About the Author
Mark Blake is the author of Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd (Aurum 2007), and a contributing editor of Mojo and Q magazines. He lives in Croydon.

Customer Reviews

I liked this book okay, but I liked the other Keith Richards quote book better--
I liked this book okay, but the other Keith Richards quotes book that just came out, "What Would Keith Richards Do?", out from Bloomsbury in September is a little better. Three times as long for about the same price, with more commentary. Keith is wonderfully quotable.

Funny and irreverent, typical Keef
A slim book and certainly not heavyweight, but very amusing and occasionally thought-provoking. It is not only for Stones fans. I read straight through it but I shall dip back into it from time to time.

Does what it says on the label!
Well written, very amusing & entertaining - just what you'd expect looking at the front cover