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Keith Richards: Cornered Beast?One evening Keith Richards and his wife Patti Hanson attended a film premiere in New York. As they pulled up in front of the crowded theater, several federal marshals surrounded their limo, guns drawn.
Had the feds swooped in to bust Richards, famed for his sordid history of heavy drug use? Not exactly. "It turned out that the limo was thought to have been stolen, but you should have heard the rumors at the theater," Richards recalled. "Patti and I were sitting in the theater trying to watch the movie and we could hear in the crowd behind us these gossips saying, 'Oh, isn't it a shame Keith is back on the smack? He barricaded himself in the limo shooting up. Then he became like a cornered wild beast when the cops came, so they just towed the car away. It was the only way to handle the situation safely.' We just turned around and said, 'Hey, you idiots, we are sitting right in front of you. Now shut up and let us watch the movie.'"
[Rumors also swirled at an ensuing party: "People were pointing at Patti and me saying, 'Oh, look, Keith and Patti already made bail, and they came right back over to the party, boy, they never miss a party, do they, those two?'" Richards explained. "So finally I said, why fight it? And I was like, 'Yes, lads, it was quite a race against those marshals, but we shook them with a wild U-turn going a hundred miles an hour on the Bronx Parkway. But they could be after us here any minute, so keep your eyes peeled, I may have to jump in the lake and make another getaway. But I promise I will never give up alive.' And they are all patting me on the back, Lord knows what crime they think I have committed, maybe playing my guitar too loudly."]
[Trivia: Thanks to a scurrilous police lie following a drug bust in 1967, there was a leap in the sale of Mars Bars.]
Richards, Keith (1943- ) British musician [noted for such works (with
The Rolling Stones) as Beggar's Banquet (1968), Sticky Fingers (1971), Exile on Main Street (1972), Goats Head Soup (1973), It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (1974)Black and Blue (1976), Some Girls (1978), Emotional Rescue (1980), Still Life (1982), Undercover (1983), Voodoo Lounge (1994), Rock & Roll Circus (1996), and No Security (1998)]
[Sources: salon.com, 12/06/2001; bbc.co.uk, Rolling Stones profile]More Keith Richards anecdotesRelated Anecdote Keywords:
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