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| Carol Sigmaringa |
It's amazing everything ended well.
Patti, take care of him!!!!
Keef, we LOVE you!!!!
I will celebrate with a new Keef shirt  |
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| Monkey Woman |
It's great to open your browser in the morning and learn about Keith being out of hospital! 
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| FotiniD |
Another video, doesn't say anything we don't know:
http://g6publish.videodome.com/rootvau/portal/?channel=Entertainment+News&clipid=76224
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| Gazza |
Today's Daily Mail has a small report on keith's release from hospital and says that its expected that he will be well enough to fly home within a fortnight (ie, 2 weeks) |
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| Factory Girl |
Gazza, check PM! |
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| Gazza |
got it and replied - thanks! |
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| Factory Girl |
quote:
Gazza wrote:
got it and replied - thanks!
me too! |
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| Gazza |
Faces of the week
Our regular look at some of the faces which have made the news this week. Above are Keith Richards (main picture), with David Blaine, Michelle Dewberry, Jerry Hall and Theo Walcott.
Keith Richards
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has left hospital in New Zealand following surgery on his head after he fell out of a tree in Fiji.
He's done it again: proved he's indestructible. The man for whom the phrase sex, drugs and rock 'n roll was seemingly invented and whose excesses are mirrored in a face that a Spitting Image puppet can barely caricature, has cheated death again, thankfully.
Thankfully not just for his family, friends and Stones fans the world over. Thankfully too for those romantics and image makers for whom only an appropriate rock 'n roll death would be good enough for our Keef. Falling out of a coconut tree would certainly have been an unfitting way to go for this wild man of the music scene.
"I've tried to kill myself for years - but I won't go away," Keith Richards once said. "I think Keith forgot for a minute that he was 62," says former Stone Bill Wyman.
The man who shinned up the palm tree when he could have got some local youngster to do it for him is the same one who, in the 1970s, would score his own heroin rather than have it delivered.
Keith Richards leaves hospital in New Zealand
He carried a gun because "you'd buy the stuff, walk down the stairs, and they'd have a mate waiting there to stick you up and take it back again".
His heroin addiction lasted for a decade. Going cold turkey, he once said, isn't so bad when you've done it "10 or 12 times".
Alcohol too was a close travelling companion. Who can forget his glazed look while being interviewed on television clutching an open bottle of Jack Daniels.
It was while he and former girlfriend Anita Pallenberg were "out of it", that he was rescued from a burning bed by a bodyguard.
On another famous occasion, he managed to recover after accidentally setting fire to himself, by jumping into a swimming pool. And he once crashed a car at high speed into his garden shed.
Rebel
It's the sheer indestructibility of Keith Richards that is envied and why, when it was reported that the man so often out of his tree had fallen out of one, fans gave a wry smile.
This resilience against all the odds, together with his impish, self-deprecating wit, has brought him more public affection than the Stones' charismatic front man, Mick Jagger.
For, despite being part of a band that epitomises corporate rock (their current tour is sponsored by American Express), and despite the fact that he is a family man who, he says, "has retired from military combat", Keith Richards still sees himself as a rebel.
Hypocritically, perhaps, he dislikes the vast scale of the Rolling Stones operation even though he acquiesces to the needs generated by the band's huge popularity.
This acclaim is in no small part due to the presence he brings to both live shows and recordings.
Still cool after all these years
He may be no fret-board gymnast, but Richards' playing on songs like Brown Sugar, Jumping Jack Flash and Start Me Up is one of the main reasons why the Rolling Stones are known as the world's greatest rock 'n roll band.
Yet, whereas Mick Jagger has become Sir Mick, there was never a question of Keith Richards following suit. "I thought it was ludicrous to take one of those gongs from the establishment when they did their very best to throw us in jail and kill us one time."
He is referring to the time in 1967 when he and Mick Jagger spent a night together in Wormwood Scrubs after being convicted on drugs charges. The affair provoked outrage and the convictions were subsequently quashed.
His "disappointment" over Mick's acceptance of a knighthood points up the differences between the pair's personalities.
Whereas Mick is happy to disport himself around Buckingham Palace, Richards, as he recently told the BBC, "wouldn't let that family near me with a sharp stick, let alone a sword".
But that clash of personalities has been creatively fertile, and any idea that Richards leaves all the business decisions to Jagger is overstated.
The Rolling Stones had been due to headline last year's Live 8 concert. It was Keith Richards who vetoed it despite having been put under huge pressure from "so many knights of the realm". He felt the concert was ill-judged.
Today, Keith Richards describes himself as "a family man, a grandfather... really a benign old chap". Benign is a relative term, of course.
Somehow, even in his 60s, and helped by a still full mop of hair, Keith Richards remains the essence of cool. The next Stones gigs are unlikely to kick off with a rocking rendition of I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4761781.stm
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| Turd OnThe Run |
Until we here from Keith himself, or at least Mick, Charlie, and/or Ronnie, or even Darryl, Bernard, or Blondie, (maybe Bill ???), it's hard to believe anything thats been printed in the press. The pictures of Keith look great indeed, but that doesn't prove anything. He's looking better alright, but will he continue to recover? I sure hope so.
We need to hear some facts from the inner circle of the Stones.
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| Hannalee |
It's certainly hard to believe the "still full mop of hair". Has this bozo even seen Keith in the last twenty years?
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| Gazza |
Keith Richards' kids celebrate dad's recovery
14 May 2006
The relieved children of recuperating rocker Keith Richards marked his discharge from hospital last week with a long lunch and a trip to Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World.
Richards, guitarist for veteran rockers the Rolling Stones, was discharged from Auckland's Ascot Hospital on Thursday morning after an operation on Monday to drain blood from inside his skull.
His upbeat appearance ended days of speculation that he had suffered career-threatening brain damage in his fall from a coconut tree at a Fijian resort last month.
Upon his discharge, Richards was taken to Cotter House, the five-star Remuera lodge where his family - wife Patti Hansen, daughters Angela, Theodora and Alexandra and son Marlon and his wife Lucie - have been staying throughout his medical ordeal. Theodora, 21, and Alexandra, 19, are socialites who have followed their mother Hansen into modelling.
Richards laid low at Cotter House for the rest of Thursday, but in the afternoon his children made the most of good weather and headed out in a Mercedes to take in some of Auckland's sights. First stop was Kelly Tarlton's, where the group stayed for an hour, before heading for a late two-hour lunch at St Heliers' Lava Restaurant, checking out the properties in the window of a real estate agent en route.
Onlookers said the group was smiling and seemed to be in a happy mood.
Marlon, his wife and two of the daughters are believed to have left Cotter House for Auckland airport on Friday. Richards and Hansen are understood to be at the hotel.
Richards was initially discharged from Ascot on May 2, but was readmitted days later after complaining of headaches.
The European leg of the Stones' "Bigger Bang" world tour has been rescheduled to begin in June.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3667695a5620,00.html
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