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> OK...well here's the article from AP wire services
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> 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.
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> "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.
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> 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.
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> "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.
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> NME:
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www.nme.com]
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> Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights
> reserved. This material may not be published,
> broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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