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'I SNORTED MY FATHER'
'BLOW-POP' ROCKER KEITH PUT HIS DAD'S ASHES IN COKE
By LEELA de KRETSER
April 4, 2007 -- What does an aging rocker do for a "Start Me Up?"
Snort his dead father's ashes, of course.
Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards has admitted that he once mixed his dad's ashes with cocaine, rolled up a bill, and inhaled the mixture up his schnozz.
The 63-year-old guitarist made the shocking confession, enough to make a dead man cry, in the latest edition of British music magazine NME.
"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," Richards says in a feature about his impact on rock that hits stands Friday.
"He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. It went pretty well, and I'm still alive."
Richards' dad, Bert, was a World War II vet who worked in a factory for much of his life.
In the mid-'60s, about the same time Richards was expelled from school and formed a friendship with Mick Jagger, his father split with his mother.
While Richards stayed close with his mom, he was estranged from his dad for more than 20 years, and even dropped the "s" from his surname.
The pair reconciled in the late 1980s when Bert accompanied his son on tour, and Keith put the "s" back.
Bert died in 2002. Three years later, Richards told The Independent he regularly dreamed of him.
"I'll be talking away to someone and Bert will come in and say, 'A fox never s- - - s in his own hole, Keith!' "
The revelation that Bert's ashes were ground up with cocaine came as Richards admitted he's lucky he never died from years of drug abuse - and advised younger musicians against following in his footsteps.
"I did it because that was the way I did it. Now people think it's a way of life," he told NME. "I've no pretensions about immortality. I'm the same as everyone . . . just kind of lucky."
Richards predicted Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty could be the next drug casualty - and advised him to leave supermodel Kate Moss.
"He's pushing his luck . . . but so is Kate, who I know very well," Richards said. "Kate wants to play with bad boys . . . She'll live, the boys will die."
The Stones kick off the European leg of their "A Bigger Bang" tour in June. It was interrupted last year when Richards reportedly fell from a palm tree in Fiji.
"I wasn't climbing a tree," he insisted. "I was sitting on a . . . shrub . . . but I happened to fall off it the wrong way that day."
He said his worst drug experience was "when someone put strychnine in my dope. . . . I was totally comatose, but I was totally awake."
Yet he revels in his bad-boy status, boasting, "I was No. 1 on the 'Who's likely to die' list for 10 years."
Late last night, Richards' longtime manager, Jane Rose, said the stoner was just kidding about snorting his dad's ashes.
"Said in jest. Can't believe anyone took [it] seriously," she emailed, according to the Website MTV.com.
'I SNORTED MY FATHER'
'BLOW-POP' ROCKER KEITH PUT HIS DAD'S ASHES IN COKE
By LEELA de KRETSER
April 4, 2007 -- What does an aging rocker do for a "Start Me Up?"
Snort his dead father's ashes, of course.
Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards has admitted that he once mixed his dad's ashes with cocaine, rolled up a bill, and inhaled the mixture up his schnozz.
The 63-year-old guitarist made the shocking confession, enough to make a dead man cry, in the latest edition of British music magazine NME.
"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," Richards says in a feature about his impact on rock that hits stands Friday.
"He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. It went pretty well, and I'm still alive."
Richards' dad, Bert, was a World War II vet who worked in a factory for much of his life.
In the mid-'60s, about the same time Richards was expelled from school and formed a friendship with Mick Jagger, his father split with his mother.
While Richards stayed close with his mom, he was estranged from his dad for more than 20 years, and even dropped the "s" from his surname.
The pair reconciled in the late 1980s when Bert accompanied his son on tour, and Keith put the "s" back.
Bert died in 2002. Three years later, Richards told The Independent he regularly dreamed of him.
"I'll be talking away to someone and Bert will come in and say, 'A fox never s- - - s in his own hole, Keith!' "
The revelation that Bert's ashes were ground up with cocaine came as Richards admitted he's lucky he never died from years of drug abuse - and advised younger musicians against following in his footsteps.
"I did it because that was the way I did it. Now people think it's a way of life," he told NME. "I've no pretensions about immortality. I'm the same as everyone . . . just kind of lucky."
Richards predicted Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty could be the next drug casualty - and advised him to leave supermodel Kate Moss.
"He's pushing his luck . . . but so is Kate, who I know very well," Richards said. "Kate wants to play with bad boys . . . She'll live, the boys will die."
The Stones kick off the European leg of their "A Bigger Bang" tour in June. It was interrupted last year when Richards reportedly fell from a palm tree in Fiji.
"I wasn't climbing a tree," he insisted. "I was sitting on a . . . shrub . . . but I happened to fall off it the wrong way that day."
He said his worst drug experience was "when someone put strychnine in my dope. . . . I was totally comatose, but I was totally awake."
Yet he revels in his bad-boy status, boasting, "I was No. 1 on the 'Who's likely to die' list for 10 years."
Late last night, Richards' longtime manager, Jane Rose, said the stoner was just kidding about snorting his dad's ashes.
"Said in jest. Can't believe anyone took [it] seriously," she emailed, according to the Website MTV.com.