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then we had a snort of dear old Dad
According to an article in today’s edition of the New York Post,“Keith Richards, co-founder of the Rolling Stones, is starting up the bidding war for his life story and is likely to get lots of satisfaction as publishers have already pushed the price tag for the advance to $7.3 million in the hottest bidding war of the year.By late yesterday, the bidding had narrowed down to two houses, HarperCollins and Little Brown.”
According to the article there was a bit of one-upsmanship involved: “At the outset, Richards’ only goal was to beat the nearly $5 million advance that Eric Clapton snagged for his memoir, due out this October.Richards had an advance of $1.6 million to write his life story for Bantam in the 1980s, but gave it back after he supposedly told the publisher he couldn’t recall enough to fill a book.
OK, Keef, if you couldn’t remember what happened 20 years ago, how is it that your memory has suddenly improved? For $7.3 million my memory would improve too!
A few years ago I interviewed Bill Wyman, the longtime Stones bassist. He left the band because he was already in his sixties and he just didn’t see the point of it anymore. His memory is excellent.
He told me how strange those lads seemed to him back when he joined up in the early 1960s. He thought they dressed in a most peculiar way and that the lead singer danced rather oddly.
Somehow, Wyman fit in. The rest, is rock’n’roll history.
Maybe Keith’s memory improved after his headfirst dive from that tropical tree?? He did take quite a thump on his coconut a while back?
Maybe he’ll have more to say about what led him to purportedly inhale some of the cremains of his dear old Dad?
Vick Mickunas
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By vick mickunas
July 28, 2007 1:46 PM | Link to this
Mick Jagger reads this blog?! No way!!By mick
July 28, 2007 12:01 PM | Link to this
ya bloody wank, Keef! Don’t be spillin’ the beanz ma man!