Keith Richards
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Keith Richards (born the December 18th 1943 in Dartford, in the Kent in England) is Guitariste Rolling Stones, group which it founded with Brian Jones by joining Mick Jagger and Ian Stewart, in 1962. Jagger and Richards share the composition of the pieces of Stones.
Biography
Pre-Rolling Stones
Keith is born with the Livingstone Hospital during the Second world war, in the middle of the bombardments and of the attacks of V1. His/her parents are workmen. His/her father having been seriously wounded during the war, Keith is very close to his maternal grandfather, Augustus Theodore Dupree, (Gus), musician of Jazz, which has a great influence on him. The first idol of Keith is Roy Rogers, actor of Western, which he imitates at his place. Later, Keith adopts the vestimentary style Teddy Boy . Then his/her parents divorce and Keith is sent to the Sidcup Art College . It is for this period that it decides more not to see his father, that it will find only in 1982.Dartford is also the birthplace of Mick Jagger, with which it goes to the nursery school. They lose a little sight, and are found in 1960 on the station platform of Dartford. Mick has discs with him, of which the Best off Muddy Waters , which encourages Keith to come to speak to him. Mick invites Keith to join it in its group very right being born, " Little Boy Blue & The Boys" Blues;. Keith comes with his/her friend Dick Taylor, whom he knew with the " Sidcup Art College". In July 1961, in Devon, the western south of the England, on vacation with the parents Richards, Keith and Mick give their first concert, it is at least their first service in public, with resumptions of the Everly Brothers.
Mick also sings in Ealing Club in the Blues Incorporated of Alexis Korner, which have as a beater some Charlie Watts, and as bass player Jack Bruce; it takes along Keith there. In Ealing Club, they meet Brian Jones, large amateur of blues, which seeks to assemble a group with the pianist Ian Stewart. With Dick Taylor with low, they will be the first Rolling Stones, in 1962.
Stones
It is while awaking in the middle of the night that in 1965 it composes Satisfaction , which will become the first large hit Rolling Stones, and will consolidate it in the idea that, him and Mick Jagger, can write tubes. After this date, he will endeavor to compose, always with like only partner Jagger, it quasi totality of the titles of each album, forsaking the resumptions of American tubes.
Music
Keith always was, already at the time of the meeting of Dartford with Mick, a fan of Chuck Berry. It will always remain it, and this syncopated style of the rocker of Saint Louis will be magnifié by Richards. Besides Keith knows on the end of the fingers all the fronts and solos of the MasterAs of the beginning, it develops in the Rolling Stones with the other guitarist Brian Jones a style of play which will become the “trademark” of the group: the overlap of the two guitars, without real distinction between soloist and rhythmic. Thus, nobody with the label " soliste" , nor that of " rythmique" , two guitarists being able to alternate and combine their part of guitars, creating a single sound. Even if this play is lost a few years, for the period Mick Taylor, the guitarist who replaced Brian Jones in 1969 and remained in the group until 1975. Mick Taylor had been essential as soloist, Keith will return in force at the time of the arrival of the substitute of Taylor in 1975, Ron Wood, ideal musical companion of Richards.
During the scenic station-wagon of years 67-69, under the influence of Ry Cooder, he invents a new type of play of guitar: he grants it in '' open tuning '' of ground , ( D , ground , D , ground , if , D ,) of which he withdraws the sixth cord, largest, the serious D , which makes it possible to have a ground into low, the 5th cord becoming most serious. With this type of agreements, he will write Honky Tonk Woman , Brown Sugar , Jumping Jack Flash , Start Me Up , etc He uses preferably a Fender Telecaster custom for this type of tuning.
His/her friend and road to manage group Ian Stewart, learned to him from the rudiments of Piano, which it will use for the first time on Let' S spend the night together in 1967.
Recognition
The end of the Years 1960 and the beginning of the Années 1970 will bring the recognition of its pars to him, in a ripe musical style and as of now immutable, which will be the signature of Keith: use of the open tunings , syncopated rate/rhythm, use of the fourth time of each measurement like fulcrum, generalization of the front in the rock'n'roll, which will make it call " the front humain" (" human riff") by all the commentators. This period will be also that of the beginnings of consumption of Héroïne, which will mark it during the twenty following years, leading it many times in prison. It is for this period that, under the crook of the producing Jimmy Miller will be produced the most legendary albums of Stones: Beggars Banquet , Let It Bleed , Sticky Fingers and Exiles One Hand Street . The album Let It Bleed will be regarded besides as the work (guitaristic) of Keith alone, Brian Jones, the second guitarist, not coming more in studio. This last will be made return group in 1969 and replace by the already famous young person but Mick Taylor. A second album, mythical, can be one of best of Stones, is regarded as the work of Keith, entirely recorded in its villa of the south of France: Exiles One Hand Street .
Period sinks
The following years, until the middle of decade 80, will be one turbid period for Keith. Drugs, prisons, died of his/her son and close relations, doubts musical, unequal albums of Stones, arrival of the disco music in their music, quarrels with Mick Jagger, etc the replacement of Mick Taylor, started from him even, by the friend Ron Wood, will just make it possible Keith to be " présent" on scene. The arrest of Keith with Toronto with the " Harbor Castle Hotel" in February 1977, which risked seven years of prison, puts the group in danger and throws the doubt about the perenniality of the presence of the guitarist within Stones. The apogee of its disorders is reached in 1986 with the album Dirty Work , on which he practically does not play. The title of the album is a wink with the fans, who know the difficulties of the group and their guitarist fetish. This period will be that of the interrogation around the separation of Stones, of the albums solo of Jagger and Richards, but also of Wood and Watts. Let us note how Keith will be the initiator and the musical director of the film hail hail! Rock' roll realized for the 60 years of Chuck Berry.
Rebirth
The rebirth will come with the album Steel Wheels, which will see Keith Richards and its group, again welded, to find inspiration and… breathing! Even if the rounds are done in great stages and become a true industrial business, Keith insists to always be able to play in small rooms, more or less officially, using sometimes of pseudonym for the group, in order to remain close to its fans.
2005
The album has bigger bang in its turn a new resurrection, is recorded " with the ancienne" , in the French castle of Mick Jagger. Many blues and titles very roots compose this album, with always the " patte" of Keith.April 28th, 2006, Keith Richards was victim of a concussion after being fallen from a Cocotier of Wakaya Club, a luxurious hotel of the islands Fiji, at the time of holidays with another member of Stones, Ron Wood. May 8th, 2006, it underwent an operation with the brain at the hospital Mercy Ascot of Auckland which was crowned success. The European dates of the world tour of Rolling Stones were differed of almost two months (July 11th instead of the May 27th). It interprets there, inter alia, the song Wanna Hold You, in the place of Mick Jagger.
Private life
Keith Richards did not have private life as agitated as some of his/her colleagues musicians, in particular Mick Jagger. One knows few adventures to him, Keith is rather a faithful man.After a short adventure with Linda Keith, Keith Richards meets Anita Pallenberg in 1967, they will have three children.
- a son, Marlon Richards, born in 1969, which are now married with a mannequin Free-Welsh, Lucie of Cliff;
- a girl, Dandelion, born in 1972, which changed name for Angela Richards;
- another son, Tared Richards, born in 1976, but deceased of complications of health shortly after its birth.
Then it met Patti Hansen, a top model , with the Studio 54 of New York. They lived together a few years before marrying the 18 December 1983, the day of the fortieth birthday of Keith. They have 2 girls, mannequins like their mother:
- Theodora ()
- Alexandra
Recently Keith acknowledged to have sniffé ashes of his/her father. Indeed, he entrusted to British magazine NME this: “The oddest thing which I did test of sniffer? My father. I sniffé my father”, “It had been incinerated and I could not resist the idea to grind it with a little coke”, “Ca would not have disturbed my father”, “It passed very well and I am still in life”. However, in the days which follow, Keith contradicted via its spokesperson by affirming that it was only one joke.
Material
Keith Richards played on many different guitars, without that seeming to have deteriorated the sound that it was given. One can nevertheless draw up a chronological list of the most used instruments:- Harmony Meteor H70 in 1963-66 (www.guitargonauts.com)
- Amplifier Harmony in 62, then Vox AC30 in 63-64, and Fender twin spool then, essentially.
- Epiphone of the " type; gibson ES 335" (Sheraton model?) in 1963-64
- Gibson the Paul equipped with a vibrato " Bigsby " in 1964-65 bought at the time of the round of Stones in the USA - Let us note that it would be about the first the Paul pre-60 ( individual-cut ) used with the the United Kingdom (individual-cut production of the ) having been not imported and stopped into 61).
- Gibson Hummingbird (acoustic) on which it would have composed Satisfaction in a hotel room; it is the guitar used by Keith and Mick Jagger in the film One one One (Sympathy For The Devil).
- Fender Telecaster , especially the model custom , with a micro double winding in position sleeve.
- daN Armstrong " clear lucite" translucent
- Gibson the Paul Custom 1957 Black Beauty (the model with 3 microphones), black
- Gibson Flying V 58
- Gibson ES-335 of color Black and Sunburst
- Gibson Firebird of Sunburst color during time 65; Keith and Brian had of it each one in particular in Olympia of Paris in 65
- Fender Stratocaster
Since the middle of the years 1980, he plays much on Music Man , especially of the " Silouhette ".
He also exploited of low a few pieces, whose Let spend the night together and especially Sympathy for the Devil as one sees it in film of Jean-Luc Godard One plus One .
Alan Clayton, its faithful guitar tech , known as of him: “The trick with him, it is that it can play on any guitar. It of fout”
Discography
Rolling Stones
Keith Richards played on all the albums of Rolling Stones. To refer to the complete discography of the group.Solo
- 1979 : Run Rudolph Run (B-side The Harder They Like )
- 1988: Talk is Cheap
- 1991 : Live At the Hollywood Palladium, December 15,1988
- 1992: Hand Offender
- 1993: Eileen (Individual CD)
Participations
1991: Johnnie B. Bad (Warner) of Johnnie Johnson with Eric Clapton…
1993: play of the guitar on the album of Tom Waits' " Bone Machine"
1991: Mr. Lucky of John Lee Hooker with Ry Cooder, Carlos Santana, Robert CRAY, Albert Collins…
2004: Careless ethiopians on album-compilation True coils Toots and the Maytals
2005: Return to Sin City - has Tribute to Gram Parsons (2005) - DVD
2006: The price you got to pay of Buddy Guy on the album Bring 'EM In
2006: Last Man Standing of Jerry Lee Lewis (duet on the piece That Kind Off Fool )
Catalog of films
For anecdote, apart from many films on the Rolling Stones and other musical films, Keith Richards played as an actor in three films:- Michael Kohlhaas - Der Rebell of Volker Schlöndorff (1969)
- Rebirth off the Babymaker of Efferem Poynter (1994)
- Pirate of the Caribbean 3: Until the End of the World of Gore Verbinski (2007)