Biography of Kita Richards

Born on December 18 in Dartford, Kent, Great Britain. British musician, guitarist, songwriter, composer, actor, producer. Member of The Rolling Stones. One of the greatest guitarists of all time. Keith Richards was born on December 18 in Dartford, County Kent. Father - Herbert Richards Herbert W. Richards, was a worker in the factory, fought and was wounded during the Second World War.

Mother - Doris Richards Uponed Duper. Grandfather and grandmother, Ernie and Eliza Richards, were socialists and civilian leaders, the organizers of the Labor Party cell in Walemstow, Eliza Richards became the mayor of the Walemstow municipal district in London in the year. It was mother’s grandfather, who toured Great Britain as part of the Gus Dupree and His Boys jazz band, who introduced a little whale to music and carried away the guitar play.

At the same time, his mother introduced him to the music of Billy Holide, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, she also bought him the first guitar for seven pounds - the acoustic "Rosetti". The first guitar idol of Richards was Scotti Moore. It is known that Kit’s father did not like his love of music and he saw another career for him. His parents divorced at the beginning of x.

Richards maintained good relations with his mother, who was very favorable to his musical activity, but ceased to communicate with his father, with whom he resumed contact only in the year. Keith Richards went to the same primary school as the other future star of the World Rock - Mick Jagger. Therefore, they knew each other since school and in childhood lived in the same area until the Richards family moved to another district - Dartford.

From to Richards attended the Dartford technical school, where the head of the choir Jack Kleir, noticed his singing voice and took him to the school choir. In, Richards was expelled from the Dartford Technical School for absenteeism, and the school principal invited him to enter the Art College in the neighboring city of Sidkap. In the art college, Richards devoted all his time to playing the guitar.

He sold a very large number of musical records to buy his first electric guitar - the Hoffner semi -acoustic guitar. Keith Richards in his youth on October 17, fate again brought him to his childhood friend - during a trip from Dartford to Sidkap, Richards went to the same carriage as Mick Jagger, who was then a student of the London School of Economics.

They recognized each other and began to discuss the blues and rhythm end-blinkers, which Mick ordered by mail from America. Mick suggested a whale to come to a rehearsal, and soon Richards joined the group. The group broke up after Jagger and Richards met Brian Jones, with whom they organized their legendary group The Rolling Stones. By the middle, Richards left the college of art for the sake of a musical career and moved to an apartment in London with Jagger and Jones.

In his youth, the idol of Richards was Chuck Berry. Rolling Stones in the early stages during concerts often performed the covers of the compositions of Berry and Bo Didley. The work of Jimmy Reed and Maddy Waters is another early source of inspiration, and the basis for the style combining the game of solo and rhythm gitars, which Richards and Brian Jones developed since the founding of Rolling Stones.

After replacing Jones with guitarist Mick Taylor, who worked with Rolling Stones from the software, Taylor's playing style led to a more clearly separation between the roles of solo guitars and rhythm guitars. In with the replacement of Taylor Ronnie Wood, the group returns to the style of a combination of guitar parties. Richards said that the years of the game with Wood were the best music period Rolling Stones.

Richards, who has more than a thousand guitars on some of them, he never played, is often associated with Fender Telecaster guitar. Especially from the two years of release by telecasteers equipped with a hambaker of Gibson. This arrest could cross out the career of both musicians. He later described that story in his book “Life”: “The ovidnyak affects different people differently.

Some are torn into battle, they say - come on a new one; Others, on the contrary, say - everything, good already. Knocking on the door, I look out the window, and outside a whole brood of dwarfs, and everyone is dressed in the same thing! These were the police, but I did not guess. They just looked like low little little men dressed in something dark blue with shiny little things and with helmets on their heads.

And I invited you, right? Well, God be with him, go more likely, otherwise it is somehow cool on the street. "They tried to read out a warrant for me. They never notice me before, and I was still under the remains of acid. Oh, get acquainted here. Make love. Yes, I wouldn’t have to give them the right to enter, until I negotiate with a lawyer. And then throw in a gross form. According to the conspiracy between News of the World and cops, but the entire scale of their communications, which even judicials were involved, became clear only a few months later, in the consideration of the case.At first, Mick threatened to file a lawsuit against this garbage newspaper that he was confused with Brian Jones and painted how he took drugs in a nightclub.

As a countermeasures, they needed evidence against Mick to fight back in court. Patrick, my driver -Belgian, is who sold us News of the World, who, in turn, whistled the cops who hid Schneiderman. Imagine - I hold this driver, I pay properly, well, it’s a matter of business, do not knit. But News of the World got him. True, he got a damn thing. I heard that they had finished him for the rest of his life.

However, we connected these small details among themselves much later. And in those days, as far as I remember, the atmosphere was quite relaxed. Figina - whatever we did, we have already done. And only then, the next day, when letters from lawyers began to come and all that - the government of Her Majesty, etc. Based on the results of the search at Redlends, Richards gave a year of imprisonment.

After the appeal, the deadline was canceled, and Jagger's prison term was replaced by conditional. I was fond of drugs, but then threw it. He said: “I never felt that my success in creativity depends on drugs. Because of them, I except that I often woke up at night to get another dose. I had to stop using, because I realized that this experiment dragged on too much. Some people can cope with addiction, and some do not.

If drugs at some point suddenly become more important than music, then you lost this battle. ” The Rolling Stones group released twenty -three studio and eight concert albums in the United States in the UK, respectively, 24 and 9. Twenty -one single entered the top ten UK Singles Chart, 8 of them climbed the top of the hit parade, the corresponding indicators of The Rolling Stones at the Billboard Hot - 28 and 8.

The global circulation of The Rolling Stones has exceeded millions, millions of them were sold in the United States; According to these indicators, the group is one of the most successful in history. In the year, The Rolling Stones were included in the Rock and Roll Glory Hall, and in the year they took the fourth place in the list of “50 greatest performers of all time according to Rolling Stone magazine”.

The authoritative American magazine Rolling Stone placed Keith Richards in 4th place in the list of "Greatest Guitarists of All Time." Richards is sure that the acoustic guitar is the basis of his whole game. Once he said: “Every guitarist should play the acoustic guitar of the house. It doesn’t matter what you play if you do not maintain your acoustic game at a high level, you can never use the entire potential of the electric guitar because you lose contact.

” Keith Richards in the collection near guitars, but he uses only ten. It plans to open the museum of its guitars. Keith Richards is known for his extravagant manner of behavior, and many curious cases are connected with it. So, in April of the year, a summer musician received a concussion when falling from a tree on Fiji. A few days later, he was successfully operated on in New Zealand.

In playing the role of Captain Jack Sparrow in the films of the series “Pirates of the Caribbean”, Johnny Depp tried to imitate the gait and manner of the conversation of Keith Richards, who is one of his favorite musicians. In the fourth part of the franchise, Richards again played the role of Jack's father. The personal life of Keith Richards: in the years, his civilian wife was an Italian and German model, actress, screenwriter, designer, fashion designer Anita Pallenberg Anita Pallenberg; They had three children: son Marlon G.

The son of Tara in the year died of health problems at the age of Tie months. 2 hours after the news, Kit went on stage. He explained: “I was then on tour. I remember a phone call from Geneva, where everything happened. For me it was a heavy blow. I thought I would go crazy if I didn’t speak. Everything happened too unexpectedly. Of course, I could just be alone with those thoughts that roamed in my head.

I don’t know how it would end. We can say that this was a kind of instinct of self -preservation. ” She lives in Weston, Connecticut. The couple has two daughters - Theodore and Alexander.