The wife of Rolling Stones Keith Richards and former supermodel, opens up about the importance of family, her battle with cancer and how to handle Keith.
I never really read any of the books about Keith. I'm living it. Why do I want to read someone else's interpretation of it?
By the time Keith Richards met Patti Hansen, The Rolling Stones guitarist had already been married once and had three children. But once he saw the American model dancing at Studio 54, he was immediately in love. "I didn't see her again for a while, but the vision stayed in my mind," the musician wrote in his memoir "Life"
When the two did indeed meet again, that's when their love story truly began. Over four decades later, the couple have two daughters, Theodore and Alexandra, and five grandchildren. "I don't care how cool and hip and whatever you think you are," Richards told GQ. "You get down the line, baby, what counts is family. This is what I did it for."
But how exactly did a constantly touring rock star and a very busy model have the time to build such a stable and solid relationship, as well as raise a family? (thelist.com)
Patty recalss the riotous Rolling Stone Keith Richards in a story about meeting his future in-laws at Patti Hansen's house on Staten Island. Richards, who had shown up with a bottle in hand and was already wasted, smashed his guitar on the family's dining-room table as Hansen crouched in tears atop a flight of stairs.
"My nephew, who is now in his 40s and was a teenager at the time, just told me he remembers exactly what happened. Somebody at the table asked for Keith to play, which he did, and then the family went on talking. So he got a little angry," (VMZ)
In ’83, Richards wrote, “I wanted to make this thing legitimate.” On location in Cabo San Lucas while shooting several Stones videos for songs from Undercover of the Night, he proposed: “Come on, let’s get married on my birthday. She said, do you mean it? I said yeah. Immediately she jumped on my back. I didn’t feel anything, but I just heard something go snap and I looked down and there’s two beautiful fountains of blood coming out from behind my toenail. Within five seconds of me saying, yeah, I mean it, she broke my toe…”
The wife of Rolling Stones Keith Richards and former supermodel, opens up about the importance of family, her battle with cancer.and how to handle Keith.
I never really read any of the books about Keith. I'm living it. Why do I want to read someone else's interpretation of it?
By the time Keith Richards met Patti Hansen, The Rolling Stones guitarist had already been married once and had three children. But once he saw the American model dancing at Studio 54, he was immediately in love. "I didn't see her again for a while, but the vision stayed in my mind," the musician wrote in his memoir "Life"
When the two did indeed meet again, that's when their love story truly began. Over four decades later, the couple have two daughters, Theodore and Alexandra, and five grandchildren. "I don't care how cool and hip and whatever you think you are," Richards told GQ. "You get down the line, baby, what counts is family. This is what I did it for."
But how exactly did a constantly touring rock star and a very busy model have the time to build such a stable and solid relationship, as well as raise a family? (thelist.com)
Patty recalss the riotous Rolling Stone Keith Richards in a story about meeting his future in-laws at Patti Hansen's house on Staten Island. Richards, who had shown up with a bottle in hand and was already wasted, smashed his guitar on the family's dining-room table as Hansen crouched in tears atop a flight of stairs.
Former supermodel and Studio 54 regular Patti discovered this first-hand in 2005, when a mammogram picked up on some calcification in her breast. The reality hit her hard. “I was, like, ‘Okay. I’m one of those people now.’ ” After a biopsy revealed it was the beginning stages of cancer, Patti’s doctor suggested a lumpectomy.
A year later, Patti noticed blood in her urine. Within a month, doctors had identified a mass in her bladder, and she began chemotherapy. Three months later, she had her bladder removed and a new one fashioned out of a part of her intestine. (Chateline)
According to his daughter Theodora, the Rolling Stones' lead guitarist was a stickler for good manners and proper behaviour.
She and her sister Alexandra, 28, were not allowed to wear lipstick until they were 16. Singing at the dinner table was frowned upon.keith
Boyfriends had to beware of going too far. When Richards caught one suitor getting "too hot and horny" on the porch with his 16-year-old daughter, he told the lad: "Cut it out or I'll cut it off."
In one of the many sitting rooms, in the house they have in Connecticut, there is a gilt-encrusted baby grand piano given to Richards by a Russian princess (“who obviously liked him a lot,” says Hansen); it sits beneath a portrait by Johnny Depp of the rock-star husband himself, cigarette dangling from his mouth: a painting made with layers of rolling papers.
In keith hosue Hansen shows, hand on the knob, pauses and opens . “It's not like Keith goes down here anymore,” she says, rolling her eyes as only a woman who has been married to a man for 27 years could.
We head down into the basement, the stairway walls lined with gold and platinum records, and emerge into what must be every aging Rolling Stones fan's secret fantasy: a virtual barroom filled with rock paraphernalia and table games of every sort.
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Keith Richards has revealed why his style is so singular: he is a cross-dresser. -always swap clothes with my wife-. He can wear anything and make it look great," Richards daughter Alexandra said. "He wears my mum’s pyjama pants and blouses, and still makes them look amazing. It’s cool.”
