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Keith Richards claims he was joking about snorting his father’s ashes
By M&C News Apr 4, 2007, 17:00 GMT
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Rolling Stone guitarist Keith Richards has said the comments he made during a magazine interview concerning snorting his father’s ashes mixed in his cocaine were meant as a joke.
Rolling Stones representative Bernard Doherty, of LD Communications, issued a statement on behalf of Richards saying the comment was “an off-the-cuff remark, a joke, and it is not true.” Doherty further states the comment should be considered an “April Fool's joke.”
Doherty and Richards have not mentioned why the rocker felt the need to make the comment in the first place. The interview, which appears in the music magazine NME, became a hot topic on the Internet and in the media on Tuesday.
In the interview, Richards, 63, is quoted as saying: “The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father.” The performer further states: “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.”
Richards also comments on several modern rock acts and refers to them as crap, posers, rubbish. He also jokes about still being alive despite making it on the 'Who's Likely To Die' list for the past ten years.
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