Olejar Books

Rock icon and legendary survivor, Keith Richards turned sixty in December 2003. He's the shy, half-educated boy from Dartford–¦ the 'elegantly wasted' junkie who wrote and played the rolling Stones' best-known songs–¦ the artist formerly known as Wormwood Scrubs' prisoner 7855... the original Human Riff... and, today, the contented family man who continues to be rock's most indomitable living practitioner.

But who is the real Keith behind the kohl-eyed image? Christopher Sandford's penetrative and entertaining biography is a hard, fast, sometimes shocking saga of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll – and of a flawed but wildly creative life.