Happy birthday Keith.

Hope to see you out on tour very soon.

One Love!

With a smile on your face and a tear right in your eye

Keep on rocking Keef!You get your bus pass today.

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“Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.”

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I got news for you. We're still a bunch of tough bastards. String us up and we still won't die
- Keith 1994

Happy B.Day Mr Richards!

Happy Birthday Keith!!!!!

Always be happy, and have a great day today!!

Love you like crazy, and sometimes even more,

Georgia

Who the f*ck is Mick Jagger?

A very happy birthday to you Keith!

All the best...

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What's your favourite flavour?...........Cherry Red!!

Happy birthday Keith, enjoy and see you soon!

Best wishes to you Keith !

Time is on my side? Rolling Stones' Richards turns 65
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LONDON (AFP) — Famously drug-addled Rolling Stone Keith Richards turns 65 this week, but he remains tightlipped about any wild party plans he might have to celebrate becoming a pensioner.

The legendary guitarist, songwriter and archetypal wild rocker will reach the landmark age -- more usually associated with gardening and cardigans -- only a few months after Stones frontman Mick Jagger, who turned 65 in July.

"He wants to keep it very private," was all a spokesman for Richards would say when asked how the musician would mark his birthday on Thursday.

Named by Rolling Stone magazine as the tenth best guitarist in the world, the shaggy-haired star has proved remarkably resilient to a lifetime of substance abuse, explained by his view that his body was a "laboratory".

Richards toured the world with the Stones last year, and continues to release music, although his image as a hell-raiser was nuanced by his recent appearance in an advert for upmarket luggage maker Louis Vuitton.

But the myth surrounding him remains strong, reinforced by tales of him falling out of a coconut tree in Fiji in 2006, reports that he snorted his father's ashes with cocaine and, for younger fans, his reincarnation as Johnny Depp's character Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean films.

Born December 18, 1943 in Dartford, east of London, Richards was initiated into the world of the blues by his mother.

In 1960, he met up with Jagger, an old primary school classmate, and with Brian Jones they formed Rolling Stones, named after the Muddy Waters song.

Having built up a dedicated following, the band rose to prominence with the release of "(I can't get no) Satisfaction" -- Richards said the song's signature guitar riff came to him in the middle of the night.

With the talent came turmoil, however. As the Stones' success grew, so did their reputation as hell-raisers, with riots breaking out at many gigs as well as numerous drugs episodes involving Richards and Jones, who died in 1969.

Speaking to Esquire magazine earlier this year, Richards was asked about his intake of cocaine, to which he replied: "After the first maniac year of taking it, my intake of cocaine was, yeah, once after a meal."

In 1967, a now legendary drugs bust at Richards' Redlands home saw both him and Jagger given jail terms, although the guitarist's sentence was quashed on appeal and Jagger's was reduced to a conditional discharge.

For Richards, this marked only the beginning of his close relationship with drugs, epitomised by his remark: "My body was sort of a laboratory. I wanted to see what I could do with it."

His partner in much of this was Anita Pallenberg, the ex-girlfriend of Brian Jones with whom Richards had three children, although one died as an infant. He had two others with Patti Hansen, who he married on his 40th birthday in 1983.

In 1977, Richards was arrested for possession of heroin in Toronto, Canada, and in return for clemency, he and Pallenberg entered rehabilitation.

But the respite was brief, with Richards later remarking: "I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police."

After the Canadian episode, the Stones returned in 1978 with what many considered their best album so far, "Some Girls". But in the early 1980s, Jagger moved the group towards a more modern pop sound, which Richards opposed.

The future of the Stones seemed rocky when, in 1985, Jagger launched a solo career. Three years later Richards released his own solo album, the well-received "Talk is Cheap", although this was not his first venture on his own -- he released a version of Chuck Berry's "Run Rudolph Run" in 1978.

But talk of a break-up proved premature, and the Stones returned with a new album, "Steel Wheels", in 1989, which kicked off a massive world tour. Through to the mid-2000s they continued to produce new music and kept playing live.

Richards has since released several songs from his back catalogue and it has even been suggested that he is planning an easy listening album.

Asked in an interview with GQ magazine in 2008 about his dances with death, Richards noted: "There were plenty of times I could've given up the ghost. But it just seemed like such a cheap way out."

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Happy Birthday Keith.....and many many more....hope your well....Merry Christmas and Happy New year....

Congrats on another tick of the clock.

Thanks for all the great music and hoping for some more SOON !!!

Happy Birthday, Keith! You are still the best

Never mind yer birthday, it's my wedding anniversary! Happy Birthday ya old sod!

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SomeTorontoGirl
Happy birthday Keith, and thanks for the sounds! Raising a dram for ya.

Jeez, I hope nobody gets you one of these...

$15,000 for a pillow! Shit for that much you can buy some real....Ashes.

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

Happy b-day Mr Richards!


Rolling Stones HQ - 46a Maddox Street, London - May 31st 1968 - probably by Chris Walter

Have a great birthday Keith and hopefully you will have 65 more too.

Happy Birthday mr.Richards!We still love you,wish you long live!



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Happy Birthday and thank you for the music!

Happy b-day, Keith! Love ya <3

Happy Birthday, Keith!

I hope you don't already have the new Chubby Checker cd...oops!

Happy Birthday Keith,
May you have many more.

Happy Birthday Keith - I'll love you always and always.

Also, a very happy anniversary to you and Patti, my all-time favorite rock star and my all-time favorite model.

Wasn't looking too good, but I was feeling real well.

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CindyC
Happy Birthday Keith - I'll love you always and always.

Also, a very happy anniversary to you and Patti, my all-time favorite rock star and my all-time favorite model.

Cindy....where where you ...it's page 3 already ...ok you where thinking the same as me .....maybe Keith is watching us

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Best wishes from Poland Mr. Richards! Many many birthdays still to come!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR KEITH!!!
Wow, 65 years old and never too old to rock'n'roll!
I raise a glass to you and to a great rocking year for you, my dear!! All the best, and a very happy 25th anniversary to you and Patti!



With Love.

The stage is empty without You...

Happy Birthday !!!

Happy Birthday and Happy Anniversary, were celebrating at my house tonight, Gold Rains On You

HAPPY Birthday Keith and very best wishes from Germany ....

Hey, from one Richards to another,
Have a good one today

Jan Richards

[www.stonesondecca.com]

Happy Birthday Keith! Thanks for the wink in '81 and the handshake in '99!