Once-in-a-generation memoir of a rock legend
- the No 1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller With the Rolling Stones Keith Richards created the riffs the lyrics & the songs that roused the world & over four decades he lived the original rock & roll life taking the chances he wanted speaking his mind & making it all work in a way that no one before him had ever done Now at last the man himself tells us the story of life in the crossfire hurricane & what a life Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry & Muddy Waters records as a child in post-war Kent Learning guitar & forming a band with Mick Jagger & Brian Jones The Rolling Stones' first fame & success as a bad-boy band The notorious Redlands drug bust & subsequent series of confrontations with a nervous establishment that led to his enduring image as outlaw & folk hero Creating immortal riffs such as the ones in ' Jumping Jack Flash' & ' Street Fighting Man' & ' Honky Tonk Women' Falling in love with Anita Pallenberg & the death of Brian Jones Tax exile in France wildfire tours of the US ' Exile on Main Street' & ' Some Girls' Ever increasing fame isolation & addiction Falling in love with Patti Hansen Estrangement from Mick Jagger & subsequent reconciliation Solo albums & performances with his band the Xpensive Winos Marriage family & the road that goes on for ever In a voice that is uniquely & intimately his own with the disarming honesty that has always been his trademark Keith Richards brings us the essential life story of our times