Keith Richards

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Born in Dartford, Kent, England, 18 December 1943, Keith Richards is best known as founding member of The Rolling Stones. Some critics say: "If Mick Jagger is the brain of the Rolling Stones, guitarist Keith Richards is their heart:.
Keith become one of the most iconic figures in music: a hard-living rock pirate who also happens to be a guitar innovator and great songwriter. Fourteen songs written by Richards and songwriting partner and band vocalist, Mick Jagger, are listed among Rolling Stone Magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
Together with his schoolmate, Mick Jagger, in the early 1960s they formed the rock band The Rolling Stones.
Richards and Jagger started writing their own songs in 1965 and the hits began to pile up, fueled by Richards' bluesy, chunky guitar riffs.
He had a small role as a pirate in the 2007 sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Johnny Depp has said in interviews that he based many of the mannerisms of Jack Sparrow character on Richards.
Richards' personal life has been the topic of much rumor and speculation over the years due to his substance abuse and run-ins with the law. He's been arrested five times since 1967. Keith has acknowledged using drugs in the 1960s and 1970s, particularly heroin.

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