Keith Richards Denies Snorting Dad's Ashes

Keith Richards was joking when he claimed to have snorted his father's ashes along with cocaine, a spokesman said Wednesday.

"It was an off-the-cuff remark, a joke, and it is not true. File under April Fool's joke," said Bernard Doherty of LD Communications, which represents the Rolling Stones.

Doherty declined to say any more about why Richards made the statement in an interview with NME, a pop music magazine.

"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," the 63-year-old guitarist was quoted as saying.

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"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' father, Bert, died in 2002, at 84.

Richards told the magazine that his survival was the result of luck, and advised young musicians against trying to emulate him.

"I did it because that was the way I did it. Now people think it's a way of life," he was quoted as saying.

"I've no pretensions about immortality," he added. "I'm the same as everyone ... just kind of lucky.

"I was No. 1 on the 'who's likely to die' list for 10 years. I mean, I was really disappointed when I fell off the list," Richards said.

[jimibear]

"I have never heard of Keith Richards trying to do good for the sake of man? Ive never heard him contribute to charity funds to help childern or animals or anything for that sake?!!"

Then you obviously haven't been listening, sfoulger. Among other things, Richards funded a school for the blind in Toronto, and has contributed several million dollars to the relief of musicians displaced by Katrina.

But hey, let's not deal in facts. The internet is the place for hysterical diatribe against people you've never met, right?

[tunman-2009]

Keith, you are the meaning of "never a dull moment"! I tell people if you want to see what rock and roll is, look at any picture of Chuck Berry playing or Keith playing, like the song says, its only rock and roll but I like it!

[sfoulger]

This guy is such a disgusting and ugly human being!! I wouldnt sleep with him for all the money and drugs in the world!
Im surprised he has lived this long? Gee, what a good influence on the generations to come hu; not to mention his own children??
Snorting drugs with his fathers ashes? I mean come on!!! People like him just make me scream even louder, "What the hell are low life's like him who claim to have talent and make millions; doing in the public eye?" I have never heard of Keith Richards trying to do good for the sake of man? Ive never heard him contribute to charity funds to help childern or animals or anything for that sake?!! He just lives off the money he hasent really earned as a hard working human being ; and I coulndt care less if he lived or died tommorow!!!

[ecuadoriana]

"...I don't believe for one minute that all you bible quoting mindless drones have not done anything weird or bizarre, ***, religion tends to have some pretty weird and bizarre rituals. Eating and drinking the body of Christ at communion? Sounds to me like Keith was just taking his own version of communion!"
Posted by msmithdznr at 08:27 AM : Apr 04, 2007


Right on, msmithdznr!! "Sacrificing" (fancy word for slaughtering) lambs, symbolic snacking on body & blood of a dead guy, priests fondling little boys, sacrificing virgins, flagellation, the list of bizarre rituals in the name of religion goes on & on & crosses many beliefs & cultures since the beginning of time.

Heck, for all we know, maybe keith's ancestral tribe routinely snorted the ashes of their deceased as a way to give honour?! Why not? More bizarre things go on!

So, to all you bible thumpers- judge not lest you be judged & all that jazz. In other words: Go beat off your book somewhere else!

[wizest]

This is why I don't read the tabloids or listen to the stars babble on tv. He got what he wanted, his name spoken aloud again, not revered at least spoken. I really thought he was dead. WRONG!

[momof4sons2]

reply to: "when they creamate someone how do we know they dont sell the body to a lab and just give you some ashes from the box the person was in." We cremate what is left after the coroner is done with it. They keep samples if the death is suspicious or of unknown cause. Like Anna Nicole Smith, the coroner kept a couple pounds of viscera (innards) for testing. Samplings from the brain on down. Coroner is both a doctor and a cop. Need I say more? LOL

[dmorg4]

msmithdznr its not the literal body of the lord
we have in communion its representation
of it

[dmorg4]

when they creamate someone how do we know they dont sell the body to a lab and just give you some ashes from the box the person was in.

[momof4sons2]

I've worked behind the scenes in the funeral industry, the ashes don't amount to much "weight". Here's the insider's secret.. To give more substance to the urn or "box" given to the family, a fair amount of portland cement is mixed in with the ashes. So if anybody is tempted to snort a deceased, keep in mind at least 50% (by volume,90% weight) of that urn contents is what pavers use to make concrete.

[dmorg4]

I think snorting your dad is not so bad
that way you could always have him with you.

jk