{"id":16700,"date":"2026-07-07T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T09:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=16700"},"modified":"2026-07-07T03:54:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:54:42","slug":"rolling-stones-keith-richards-never-exactly-good-looking-but-now-yikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=16700","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Stones Keith Richards, never exactly good looking, but now YIKES!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Long article in the Wall Street Journal, as the Stones have a new album and contemplate another tour. –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Keith Richards doesn\u2019t seek out old Rolling Stones records\u2014unless he draws a blank trying to remember one of his many iconic riffs. \u201cI\u2019m saying, \u2018How the hell did that song go? I better bone up.\u2019 \u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But eluding the music of rock royalty is no easy task. Richards has four adult children, and they\u2019ll \u201cplay my stuff,\u201d he acknowledges. \u201cSometimes I hear it on the radio, and it comes out of nowhere.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In these moments, the guitarist is poleaxed like the rest of us. \u201cIt hits me,\u201d he says with a devilish grin. \u201cOh man, that\u2019s good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Splayed in an armchair in a Midtown Manhattan hotel with views of a fog-shrouded Rockefeller Center, Richards still radiates roguish, live-wire energy at 82. He fidgets with a pair of eyeglasses and points a knobby index finger to underscore a point, jiggles his leg restlessly and, at one point, mimes playing guitar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wizened and creased, with a hoop the size of a quarter dangling in his left ear, he relies on gestures\u2014shrugs, grimaces, guffaws\u2014to flesh out responses that lean terse. He\u2019s discussing the latest Rolling Stones album, \u201cForeign Tongues,\u201d due July 10, which has brought the band together in New York. Mick Jagger<\/a> is nearby, ambling through the hotel hallway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here he is decades and decades and decades ago with Mick Jagger.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Long article in the Wall Street Journal, as the Stones have a new album and contemplate another tour. – Keith Richards doesn\u2019t seek out old Rolling Stones records\u2014unless he draws a blank trying to remember one of his many iconic riffs. \u201cI\u2019m saying, \u2018How the hell did that song go? I better bone up.\u2019 \u201d … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-remembrance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16704,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16700\/revisions\/16704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}