Keith Richards Musical artist

Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English musician, singer and songwriter, and one of the original members of the English rock band the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine credited Richards for "rock's greatest single body of riffs" on guitar and ranked him 4th on its list of 100 best guitarists. Fourteen songs that Richards wrote with the Rolling Stones' lead vocalist Mick Jagger are listed among Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".

Personal facts

Keith Richards
Birth dateDecember 18, 1943
Birth place
Kent , Dartford

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Musical artist

Career started1960
associated musical artist
The Rolling Stones
The Dirty Mac
K'naan
The New Barbarians (band)
BackgroundSolo singer
genre
Blues
Rhythm and blues
Rock and roll
Rock music
Blues rock
instrument
Bass guitar
Drum kit
Guitar
Percussion instrument
Keyboard instrument
Singing
Fender Telecaster
record label
Virgin Records
Decca Records
EMI
Rolling Stones Records

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External resources

  1. http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-68-355-1947-10/arts_entertainment/keith_richards_heroin
  2. http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-68-832-4891/arts_entertainment/rolling_stones/clip6
  3. http://keithrichards.com
  4. http://www.keithrichards.com