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  • May 2008

    • 50 Top Pop Brainiacs

      Blender  |  May 25, 08 11:43 AM CDT

      50 Top Pop Brainiacs

      (Newser) - "Towering natural abilities" and "exceptional creative powers" infuse the most memorable music of generations, forged by Blender's top 50 pop-music geniuses. The top 10: Bob Dylan: Each of his brave self-reinventions is "an authentic American original." John Lennon: "His drive pushed the Beatles from a covers band to the world’s best-loved and most influential pop act." Chuck Berry: His guitar riffs are still the "bedrock" of rock and roll five decades on. Bob Marley: "No one did more to define and popularize a musical genre." Mick Jagger and Keith Richards: Duo created "decade of classics." More »

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      celebrity  • music  • Madonna  • musician  • pop music  • rock stars  • John Lennon  • Bob Dylan  • Mick Jagger  • Keith Richards  • Kurt Cobain  • Stevie Wonder  • Thom Yorke  • Chuck Berry  • Bob Marley  • Miles Davis

  • March 2008

    • Keith Riffs on 'Boinky' Groupies, Sexy Mick

      GQ  |  Mar 28, 08 2:07 PM CDT

      Keith Riffs on 'Boinky' Groupies, Sexy Mick

      (Newser) - Rolling Stones mummy Keith Richards is still kicking, and GQ got him talking about—what else?—sex, drugs and rock 'n roll in his Manhattan "office" while he downed a vodka on the rocks. Richards doesn't debunk any myths, certainly. "It wasn't just boinky-boinky" with the groupies, he said. "They used to rub Vicks on your chest if you had a cold." More »

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      drugs  • homosexuality  • rock and roll  • Rolling Stones  • Mick Jagger  • Keith Richards  • GQ

    • Keith Richards, Supermodel

      Los Angeles Times  |  Mar 6, 08 11:37 AM CST

      Keith Richards, Supermodel

      (Newser) - Keith Richards is featured in a new Louis Vuitton ad, accessorized as usual with headscarf and guitar—but wearing no LV, writes Elizabeth Snead in the Los Angeles Times . The Rolling Stone isn’t identified in the pic, as, a rep notes, “Keith Richards needs absolutely no introduction." But the aging rocker hasn’t sold out: He’s donating his pay to Al Gore’s Climate Project. More »

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      music  • Al Gore  • Rolling Stones  • advertisements  • Louis Vuitton  • Keith Richards  • Annie Leibovitz

    • Hells Angels 'Plotted to Kill Mick'

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Mar 2, 08 11:16 AM CST

      Hells Angels 'Plotted to Kill Mick'

      (Newser) - The notorious Hells Angels motorcycle gang once plotted to kill Mick Jagger, according to a BBC documentary to air tomorrow. Gang members sought revenge after Jagger decided never again to use them as security when a fan was beaten to death by bikers during the Stones' infamous 1969 Altamont concert. "The Hells Angels were so angered by Jagger's treatment of them that they decided to kill him," the documentary claims. More »

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      Rolling Stones  • Mick Jagger  • Keith Richards

  • February 2008

    • Ugh! 10 Worst Smiles in Music

      Blender  |  Feb 28, 08 5:07 PM CST

      Ugh! 10 Worst Smiles in Music

      (Newser) - Inspiring melodies and tongue-twisting rhymes may issue from their pipes, but for some rockers the sound passes through a terrifying portal. Blender inspects the 10 worst sets of teeth in music, starting with the bottom of the barrel. Pogues frontman Shane McGowan's utterly decomposed dents Amy Winehouse's missing canine Young David Bowie, pre-American makeover Trick Daddy's gold grill; more like precious dentures More »

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      list  • Amy Winehouse  • musician  • Keith Richards  • teeth  • Thom Yorke  • Jewel

    • Stones Sing New Tune: Don't Do Drugs

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Feb 18, 08 8:27 AM CST

      Stones Sing New Tune: Don't Do Drugs

      (Newser) - Stick with the sex and rock 'n' roll, but skip the drugs, say the Rolling Stones to the next generation of musicians. In particular, the 64-year-old front men warn pal Amy Winehouse that she can't always get what she wants. "She should get her act together," says Keith Richards, and Sir Mick Jagger is "worried she might die," reports the Daily Telegraph . More »

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      drugs  • Amy Winehouse  • rock and roll  • Rolling Stones  • Mick Jagger  • Keith Richards

  • January 2008

    • Your Hotel Bill? That'll Be $18K, Please

      Budget Travel  |  Jan 1, 08 10:45 AM CST

      Your Hotel Bill? That'll Be $18K, Please

      (Newser) - No bad-boy or bad-girl celeb's resume is complete without a trashed hotel room, and Budget Travel has checked into 10 wrecked rooms: London's Sanderson hotel: Amy Winehouse and her husband did $18,000 in damage and left behind blood-splattered walls. Flint, Mich., Holiday Inn: Keith Moon instigated $24,000 worth of havoc before slipping on marzipan and knocking out his front teeth. More »

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      Lindsay Lohan  • Amy Winehouse  • hotel  • Johnny Depp  • Keith Richards  • Kate Moss  • Hyatt

  • September 2007
  • August 2007

    • Richards Throws Stones at Swedish Critics

      Associated Press  |  Aug 29, 07 11:18 AM CDT

      Richards Throws Stones at Swedish Critics

      (Newser) - Keith Richards, the man who ate a cigarette onstage and snorted his father’s ashes, has reached his limit. The 63-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist wants Swedish newspaper critics to apologize for scathing reviews of a concert this month in which they called Richards “superdrunk” and “a bit confused,” the AP reports. More »

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      concert  • musician  • Sweden  • Rolling Stones  • Keith Richards

    • No Moss, but Rolling Stones May Gather Fine

      Times (UK)  |  Aug 22, 07 5:01 PM CDT

      No Moss, but Rolling Stones May Gather Fine

      (Newser) - Threat of fines appear unlikely to keep the Rolling Stones from smoking onstage, the Times reports. Guitarists Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood lit up during a show yesterday in London despite frantic warnings from venue staff. "You might say that Keith and Ronnie lighting up while they swap licks is part of the Stones performance," one source said. More »

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      United Kingdom  • London  • England  • smoking  • concert  • musician  • smoking ban  • Rolling Stones  • Keith Richards  • Ronnie Wood

    • Keith Did, In Fact, Snort Dad

      Guardian (UK)  |  Aug 7, 07 5:13 PM CDT

      Keith Did, In Fact, Snort Dad

      (Newser) - Keith Richards says that—reported denials aside—he did indeed snort his father’s ashes. The Rolling Stones sideman revealed in an interview yesterday that media reports had mixed up the story, and that he’d only meant to deny mixing the remains with a popular opiate. “I said I chopped him up like cocaine, not with,” he clarified. More »

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      drugs  • cocaine  • musician  • Rolling Stones  • Keith Richards  • cremation  • guitarist

  • April 2007

    • Keith Richards: "I Snorted My Dad"

      BBC  |  Apr 4, 07 10:20 AM CDT

      Keith Richards: "I Snorted My Dad"

      (Newser) - Legendary rock guitarist and professional strange person Keith Richards—still alive against all apparent odds—admitted yesterday to snorting cocaine laced with his own father's ashes. "He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared," he told British music magazine NME. More »

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      music  • drugs  • cocaine  • entertainment  • weird  • Rolling Stones  • rock stars  • Keith Richards  • cremation

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