Keith Richards has been a totemic figure from the very beginnings of rock music, both for his incredible musicianship ability and the enormous impact he has had on the world around him at the vanguard of a cultural revolution. If this wasn’t enough to secure True Superhero status his reputation for fast living has led to him being mythologised as an almost indestructible figure. Although Keith’s taste for hedonism has diminished in recent years he continues to rock, now pushing past his sixtieth year as a Rolling Stone while doing everything he can to bring positive change to the world around him. Keith was born in 1943 in Dartford, a small satellite town of London on the south bank of the Thames, to the east of the capital. Dartford used to be an ambushing point for highwaymen looking to hijack cargo traveling from the port of Dover into London, and as Richards describes it in his autobiography, Life, everyone from Dartford is a thief, It runs in the blood. During World War 2 the town had a bigger problem as it was surrounded by munitions factories and other vital infrastructure, and acquired the nickname Bomb Alley because of the frequent attacks from the Luftwaffe. Richards was born during an air raid and grew up on a street that had been largely destroyed by the bombing. Meanwhile Keith began to form the friendships that would lead to his later success, although their significance was not apparent at first. Keith first met Mick Jagger while the pair were at elementary school, and they initially lived close to each other in Dartford but they did not remain close for long. When Keith was nine his family moved to a newly constructed housing project on the other side of the town called the Temple Hill estate, which quickly developed a reputation as a rough and deprived area. As it was on the far side of the railway line that split Dartford it was known by locals as across the tracks, At the same time Mick’s family moved to the more salubrious area of Wilmington, a leafy middle class village to the south of Dartford. The train tracks that divided them would eventually bring the pair together again when they met by chance as teenagers on a train station platform. Mick was on his way to London to attend college classes, and the armload of Chuck Berry records he was carrying provided a shared interest that helped to rekindle their old acquaintance. Keith joined Mick’s band, and before long the pair had moved to London along with fellow guitarist Brian Jones and formed the Rolling Stones in 1962. They were deliberately set up by their manager Andrew Moog Oldham as an edgier, sexier alternative to the besuited and clean cut Beatles. The band had some early chart success in the UK but did not replicate the teenage hysteria of their Liverpudlian counterparts immediately, at least in part because the songwriting partnership between Jagger and Richards took time to find its legs.
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11 июн 2024
