Book Review: I am two-thirds of the way through the Keith Richards autobiography, Life. A must-read for anyone who's a rock and roll fan. Based on the drug consumption though - it reminds me of Eric Clapton's similar tell-most book out a few years ago. While reading - I keep thinking, well OK, he dies this chapter. With vignettes by his mates Bobby Keys et al., KR explores his relationship with Mick, how they (he) wrote songs, living in places like Villafranche (to avoid UK's 98% tax rate) and recording the two-record Exile on Main Street masterpeice. I'm at the part where he just lost his 2-month old son to CID, just got busted in Toronto (again), and the band's gathering in Paris to make Some Girls. I picked this live single record because I went to the concert on this tour - at the Rosemont Horizon, Nov. 1981. They opened with Under my Thumb that entire tour. When I hear that song - I love thinking back that I got to see them this one and only time with these extras on the tour with: Ian McLagan – organ, the band's founder - Ian Stewart on piano and Ernie Watts on saxophone for Waiting on a Friend. The book is worth a couple more posts and I have the Stones vinyl to go with it. I also own (and recoomend) the Martin Scorsese-directed concert DVD fimed at the Beacon Theater.
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