In an interview with the popular music magazine NME, Keith Richards, 63, admitted that he has often used drugs, and that once during a cocaine binge he snorted a line mixed with the ashes of his cremated father, Bert Richards, who died in 2002 at the age of 84.
"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow," Richards said in the interview, adding that "It went down pretty well and I'm still alive."
But Jane Rose, Richards' manager and a member of The Rolling Stones' entourage for over 30 years, laughed off the lead guitarist's admission, saying it was all a big joke and she could not believe anyone had taken it seriously.
It seems that Richards still enjoys his 'hippie-60s' and making news ahead of a planned July 28 performance by the band in Russia, just like he did a year ago.
Last year, a July concert in St. Petersburg was cancelled when Richards underwent head surgery after he fell out of a palm tree he had climbed in search of coconuts while vacationing on the Fiji Islands.
The Rolling Stones' July performance on the Palace Square in St. Petersburg will be their second show in Russia following a 1998 Moscow show that was part of their Bridges to Babylon world tour.
