Speaking to The Telegraph, Richards opened up about The Beatles and the rivalry between the band’s fans in the sixties.
Richards explained: “I don’t think John Lennon would have had much problem fitting into the Stones, or George, if you can imagine that sort of thing happening.”
“We were the same generation, and we all loved the same music. When we first heard The Beatles, we were relieved that there was some other band in England on the same track that we were on. And within a few months, that track was the main track.
“I got to know John Lennon longer and better further down the line,” Richards wrote in his book Life. “We’d hang for quite a while; he and Yoko [Ono] would pop by. But the thing was with John — for all his vaunted bravado — he couldn’t really keep up. He’d try and take anything I took but without my good training. A little bit of this, a little bit of that, couple of downers, a couple of uppers, coke and smack, and then I’m going to work. I was freewheeling. And John would inevitably end up in my john, hugging the porcelain.”
Speaking about McCartney’s appearance on album track ‘Bite My Head Off’ playing bass, Richards said: “Paul happened to be in town…And we couldn’t keep him away, bless his heart.
“And hey, if you can get one of the Beatles on your track, you know, you do it.”
He added: “Paul’s a very amiable cat to play with; we’ve been great friends forever.”
Keith Richards hits out at rap music: ‘I don’t like to hear people yelling at me
The Rolling Stones guitarist, 79, also took aim at the pop music scene, describing the genre as “rubbish”.
Keith RIchards talks: Metallica, Black Sabbath are Jokes-rap is for 'deaf people', Taylor Swift is useless singer. Keef the Riff keeps rolling like a stone- (in fact is a Rolling one).
The musician stated that he listens to a wide variety of musical genres, including blues, jazz and classical, but drew the line at the pop charts.
“I don’t want to start complaining about pop music,” he said. “It’s always been rubbish. I mean, that’s the point of it. They make it as cheap and as easy as possible and therefore it always sounds the same; there’s very little feel in it.”
“I like to hear music by people playing instruments. That is, I don’t like to hear plastic synthesised Muzak, as it used to be known, what you hear in elevators, which is now the par for the course.”
He then turned his ire to rap music, adding: “I don’t really like to hear people yelling at me and telling me it’s music, AKA rap. I can get enough of that without leaving my house.”
Some say rock is dead. For Keith Richards, it always has been.
The Bee Gees high-pitched voices seemingly has Richards thinking they were intoning adolescence a little too literally with their act. When Rolling Stone asked the star guitarist what he thought of the band, he wasted no time in stating: “Well, they’re in their own little fantasy world.”
Continuing: “You only have to read what they talk about in interviews… how many suits they’ve got and that kind of crap. It’s all kid stuff, isn’t it?”
Richards was a little more measured when it came to Led Zeppelin, that is unless you are Robert Plant. “I played their album quite a few times when I first got it, but then the guy’s voice started to get on my nerves. I don’t know why; maybe he’s a little too acrobatic,” he opined.
Richards also fell into the oft-misunderstood Bowie trap too. He credited the Hunky Dory track ‘Changes’ as a classic, but quickly added: “I can’t think of anything else he’s done that would make my hair stand up.”(Faroutmagazine)
“It sounds like a dull thud to me,” says the Rolling Stone. “For most bands, getting the syncopation is beyond them. It’s endless thudding away, with no bounce, no lift, no syncopation.” ( source NY Daily mail - article by jfarber@nydailynews.com)
He has even less regard for heavy metal. “Millions are in love with Metallicaand Black Sabbath,” Richards says. “I just thought they were great jokes.”
Not that he’s about to jump on the hip-hop bandwagon either.
Rap — so many words, so little said,” laughs Richards,
Roger Daltrey, who started the britush rock in the 60’s, singing most of the best the rock never made songs with the Who, of Course was Pete Townshend behind his back, recenrly decleared, thath the rock is dead, and only matters is rap. I don’t agree.
“What rap did that was impressive was to show there are so many tone-deaf people out there,” he says. “All they need is a drum beat and somebody yelling over it and they’re happy. There’s an enormous market for people who can’t tell one note from another.”
Abour the The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper” album i think is “a mish-mash of rubbish.” But a sit come sit was perfect for thath age.
All this sentences came from the book “Life” which made the book so popular and Keith, as usual, straight to the poimt.
The Rolling Stones are about to promote the British Tour and easily you will find sentences al lover the neews paers. It’s a Show Biz.
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Elton John who he called, “An old bitch… his writing is limited to songs about dead blondes.”
John was determined not to be outdone and his response is also comically commendable. “It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He’s pathetic. It’s like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go on stage and look young. I have great respect for the Stones but they would have been better if they had thrown Keith out 15 years ago,” the Rocketman rallied.
“If you’re in a band, you have to sublimate yourself to each other,” he says. “What’s the point of being in a band when you want to be numero uno? It’s got nothing to do with flash — and all to do with keeping the pulse going.”
