April 03, 2007
SNORT ME UP
We interrupt this period of alumni gloating to bring you something which will surprise you for about a nanosecond, after which you'll likely think, "You know, I always assumed he'd do something like this:
Keith Richards: `I Snorted My Father'
LONDON - 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.
Hat tip: Susan