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Keith Richards (born December 1943) is an English guitarist, songwriter, singer
and a founding member of the British musical group The Rolling Stones in 1962.
With songwriting partner and Stones lead vocalist Mick Jagger, he has written,
recorded and published hundreds of songs including "Satisfaction", "Jumpin' Jack
Flash", "Miss You" and "Start Me Up". Though he has had a solo career and appears
as a guest artist on the recordings of other artists, his association with the
Stones has defined his musical career. As a guitarist Richards is mostly known for
his innovative rhythm playing. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Richards #10
in its list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
 Public image
and private life
Richards has earned notoriety for his
drug-related outlaw image. Richards and the Stones cultivated a decadent and
counter-culture aesthetic during the 1960s and 70s, and Richards' frank
admission that he used narcotics often made him a poster-boy for teens and
adults who sought refuge in — as Keith sings in "Before They Make Me Run" —
"booze and pills and powders."
Two famous arrests came ten years apart, the first in 1967 with Jagger and friends
at Redlands, Richards' Sussex estate, which placed him in custody and trial before
the court of public opinion and Her Majesty. The Times editorial "Who breaks a
butterfly upon a wheel?" portrayed the trial as persecution and helped turn public
sentiment against the conviction which was quashed after two days of imprisonment.
The case also began a succession of drug arrests for Richards that continued until
the late 1970s.
More threatening was the arrest in February 1977 at Toronto's Harbour Castle Hotel
(Regina v. Richards) when Richards was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police for "22 grams of heroin" and was charged with importing narcotics, an
offence with a minimum sentence of seven years imprisonment according to the
Criminal Code of Canada.
For the next three years, Richards lived under threat of criminal sanction as he
sought medical treatment in the U.S. for heroin addiction. During this period, The
Rolling Stones released their biggest-selling album (eight million copies), Some
Girls, which included their last North American number-one pop chart single, "Miss
You". After the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld Richards' original sentence, he paid
his debt to society by performing two benefit concerts for the Canadian National
Institute for the Blind, at the cannabis smoke filled Oshawa Civic Auditorium on
April 22, 1979. Both concerts featured The Rolling Stones and The New Barbarians, a
band Ron Wood had formed to promote his album Gimmie Some Neck.
Later in 1979, Keith met future wife and model Patti Hansen. They married 18
December 1983, Richards's 40th birthday, and have two daughters, Theodora and
Alexandra.
Richards continues cordial relations with Anita Pallenberg, the mother of his first
three children, and often refers to having two wives, although he never officially
married Pallenberg. Together they have a son, Marlon Richards (named after the
actor Marlon Brando), and another daughter, Angela (nee Dandelion). Their third
child, a boy Tara (named after Keith's close friend Tara Browne), died several
weeks after his birth in 1976.
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