Keith Richards alive at 80

[TroglocratsRdumb]

https://www.skynews.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity-life/rolling-stones-guitarist-keith-richards-celebrates-his-80th-birthday/video/12a4712176a4312a66b011d96e26d1a9

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards is celebrating two new milestones today: his 80th birthday and his 40th wedding anniversary.

His bandmates have written tributes on social media.

“Happy birthday Keith! Love Mick,” Mick Jagger wrote on Instagram.

“Happy 80th birthday Keith,” Ronnie Wood said on social media.

And an old quote from the late Charlie Watts was posted to his social media:

“Keith is the most interesting, the most different of us all … He’s a man of vision and one of the few people who hasn’t really changed over the years.

“Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he’s always Keith.”

Comment:
The man has some great riffs and has written some good tunes.

 

[Oddball]

He has looked like he's 80 for 50 years.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

He has outlived a bunch of other Rockers.

 

[lantern2814]

Considering the lifestyle Richards has had, its amazing he’s made it to 80. Never mind that he and the rest of The Rolling Stones still tour like younger men.

 

[BackAgain]

Joe “Potato” Biden still brain dead.

 

[Borillar]

He is thoroughly pickled from all his booze and drug use. He has looked about the same for decades. Keep on rocking dude!

 

[MarathonMike]

Considering the lifestyle Richards has had, its amazing he’s made it to 80. Never mind that he and the rest of The Rolling Stones still tour like younger men.

The Rolling Stones should all donate their bodies to science so we can figure out how it's possible to totally abuse yourself with drugs and alcohol and still be fully functional at 80.

 

[lantern2814]

The Rolling Stones should all donate their bodies to science so we can figure out how it's possible to totally abuse yourself with drugs and alcohol and still be fully functional at 80.

There may be some sort of super preservative resulting from the mixture of all those drugs and alcohol. It would be a fascinating study.

 

[Woodznutz]

He appeared at Willy Nelson's 90th birthday musical tribute last April, did a song with Willy. He stood while Willy sat in a chair. Not bad for 79.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

MSN

Today Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones turns 80.

For years it’s been impossible to venture onto social media without seeing memes about Richards’ death-cheating immortality: the often gaunt hollowed visage, the legendary drug use, urban legends about recurrent full blood transfusions. Richards’ legendary junkiedom has been decades longer in the myth-making than the reality. As best as the various histories and memoirs inform us, Richards spent about a decade addicted to heroin, from around the age of 25 to roughly 35. There were recurrent clean-ups for tours, relapses, or just decisions to start shooting heroin again. He eventually kicked the habit in stages after a notorious drug bust in Toronto in 1977, which could have sent him to prison for years. In other words, that supposedly central thing about the man actually ended going on half a century ago. Of course, there are drugs and drugs. Richards continued to drink, smoke grass, snort cocaine for years while seemingly weening himself of the vices over time. He even quit smoking at some point during the COVID pandemic.

The vast majority of that founding generation of ’60s rock music — not the origins in the 1950s with Chuck Berry and then the white version with Elvis Presley and Carl Perkins but the rebirth of it from England starting with the Beatles — was born during World War II. Lennon 1940, McCartney 1942, Jagger and Richards 1943, Roger Daltrey and Jimmy Page 1944, Pete Townsend and Eric Clapton 1945. Go right down the list from the greats to the semi-greats to the alsos. The great majority are born in those years. They’re all in their late ’70s or early ’80s. So we’re nearing the end of the line.

 

[miketx]

 

[Rocko]

Kieth Richards is marvel of science