On his 72nd birthday we’re celebrating the life of Keith Richards with a flick through the hefty new Omnibus Press compendium of classic Keith shots A Life In Pictures. Here, Keith goes off the rails in Paris, October 1964.
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On his 72nd birthday we’re celebrating the life of Keith Richards with a flick through the hefty new Omnibus Press compendium of classic Keith shots A Life In Pictures. Here, Keith goes off the rails in Paris, October 1964.
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Keith becomes one with nature in the Mojave Desert during the summer of 1968, photographed by Michael Cooper.
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At this early juncture in the Stones’ career, living it up in 1963, Keith was actually generally quiet, very much in the shadow cast by Brian Jones and Mick Jagger.
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Jumping Jack Flash! Keith performs live in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Keith takes a well-earned cigarette break in an antique push chair having salvaged belongings from his Redlands estate after the thatched roof caught fire.
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The weekend of February 11-12, 1967, when an informal party at Keith’s Redlands retreat became the target of a drug bust, will be forever be notorious in Stones folklore.
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The Rolling Stones looks stiffly forward to a wild 50 year ride, 1963.
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The Stones wait for the curtain to rise on a show on their 1965 American tour.
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By 1966, the fruits of the previous three years hard graft started rolling in. During the early part of the year, Keith purchased Redlands, a thatched cottage encircled by a moat in West Wittering, near Chichester, Sussex.
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Canoeing around the ground, however, proved problematic.
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Ultimately, it was just best to use the boat as a stool.