Life by Keith Richards with James Fox (Little Brown, 2010)
The infamous guitar player for The Rolling Stones offers up an account of his own, spirited and adventurous life, very much in his own words – unliterary and British raw -- so that it feels like you’re sitting with him, as friends, discussing his escapades in person over a cup or two of tea. An only child born at the end of World War II, young Keith was bullied as a kid, which may explain his “lovely and lasting rage against authority” which, throughout his life, keeps him ever and only one step ahead of the law. We learn about his stint in art school, his decade-long heroin addiction, his long friendship and personal war with childhood friend Mick Jagger, the death of his infant son, his first, turbulent marriage and second, still-lasting one, all laid against the backdrop of a rock star’s life loaded with drugs, sex and touring his Chicago-blues rooted music. True to its title, this is indeed, quite a Life (8.5/10).
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