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Is this outrageous or what? I came across it on the internet. And I thought that nothing would shock me.

Keith Richards: `I Snorted My Father'
Updated 4:20 PM ET April 3, 2007

LONDON (AP) - Keith Richards has acknowledged consuming a raft of illegal substances in his time, but this may top them all. In comments published Tuesday, the 63-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist said he had snorted his father's ashes mixed with cocaine.

"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," Richards was quoted as saying by British music magazine NME.

"He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared," he said. "... It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."

Richards' father, Bert, died in 2002, at 84.

Richards, one of rock's legendary wild men, told the magazine that his survival was the result of luck, and advised young musicians against trying to emulate him.

"I did it because that was the way I did it. Now people think it's a way of life," he was quoted as saying.

"I've no pretensions about immortality," he added. "I'm the same as everyone ... just kind of lucky.

"I was No. 1 on the `who's likely to die' list for 10 years. I mean, I was really disappointed when I fell off the list," Richards said.

Rythym Guitar Joined: 08 Jun 2006 Posts: 293

Yep, it is a wonder that he is still alive but I think that this must be some kind of April joke. Noone could survive something like snorting ashes, not even Keith "nothing can kill me" Richards.

I saw a 60 minute interview with the stones, Keith is a strange one, but he sure knows how to rock after all these years. It wasn't that long ago he fell out of a coconut tree, why would a guy his age be up a tree, I'm sure if he wanted a cocnut he could have paid for one or a hundred of them.

Keith Richards must be one of the best examples to use when encouraging your kids to "just say no to drugs"

I agree, Keef is like one of those crystal meth posters - you just can't help but glance and think to yourself how horrible it is and then vow never to do it yourself.