Browsing: keith richards

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards weren’t fated soulmates – they were local kids with rare R&B records and big nerves. Here’s what really lit the fuse.

On April 13, 2013 at Crossroads Guitar Festival, Keith Richards joined Eric Clapton for “Key to the Highway” at MSG. Here’s why it still hits hard.

Keith Richards says Elvis wasn’t Elvis without Scotty Moore. Here’s why Moore’s tone, licks, and studio tricks still haunt guitarists.

Keith Richards’ Bigsby ’59 Les Paul allegedly went to Mick Taylor, then boomeranged back into Stones history. Here’s what’s credible and what’s myth.

Keith Richards says rock guitar was built on double-stops, dissonance, and thrift. Here’s how T-Bone, Chuck, and Bo rewired the rules.

Keith Richards says he’s off drugs and cigarettes and “trying to enjoy being straight.” Here’s what’s true, what’s myth, and what it means.

Keith Richards’ father was no rock star, but his approval, limits, and grit shaped Keith’s sound, stamina, and defiance for decades.

Keith Richards says Mick Taylor changed the Stones “almost unconsciously.” Here’s how the 1969 tour, riffs, and a mobile studio forged Sticky Fingers.

Keith Richards on meeting Howlin’ Wolf, chasing Robert Johnson’s ghost, and how those bluesmen quietly built the Rolling Stones.

On December 18, 1983, rock’s most notorious survivor married a Staten Island supermodel in a small Mexican hotel bar. Here is what really happened.