Life

Electrifying… the intimate and moving story of one man’s long strange trip over the decades, told in dead-on, visceral prose without any of the pretence, caution or self-consciousness that usually attend great artists sitting for their self-portraits * NEW YORK TIMES *Densely packed with incident… immensely readable. A memoir so full of incident it feels like the author’s lived three lives, not one * SUNDAY TIMES *LIFE is pretty faultless as the quintessential depiction of the man in full and his extraordinary life and times to date * THE TIMES *Funny, poignant, brutally honest, engagingly colloquial, Life is pure Keith Richards, as good a rock memoir as you are likely to read. * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *A masterpiece, the most sustained, colourful and rambunctious rampage through his [Keith’s] 67 years imaginable * THE WORD MAGAZINE *This is a good, gossipy read. Keith comes across as a thoroughly decent man, with just a hint of the devil. His relationship with Jagger is complex and fascinating * EVENING STANDARD *Dark, honest and gleefully indiscreet from the first page to the last, it puts some of today’s painfully dull musicians to shame * SHORTLIST *Once you begin this, wild, wild horses couldn’t drag you away * INDEPENDENT *A hilarious, ribald and often shocking tale told elegantly and with much candidness * CATHOLIC HERALD *I was hooked from the start * HARPER’S BAZAAR *LIFE may be the best rock star autobiography ever * CLASSIC ROCK *The fact that Keith is still alive to tell the story is incredible * SUNDAY EXPRESS S MAGAZINE *a masterpiece, the most sustained, colourful and rambunctious rampage through his [Keith’s] 67 years imaginable – Mark Ellen * THE WORD *densely packed with incident … immensely readable – Lynn Barber * SUNDAY TIMES *Funny, poignant, brutally honest, engagingly colloquial, Life is pure Keith Richards, as good a rock memoir as you are likely to read. – Sally Cousins * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *This is a good, gossipy read. But the best stuff is Keith on music. Check out his wonderful passage on Charlie Watt’s drumming. – William Leith * LONDON EVENING STANDARD *Dark, honest and gleefully indiscreet from the first page to the last, it puts some of today’s painfully dull musicians to shame. * SHORTLIST *Once you begin this, wild, wild horses couldn’t drag you away. – Boyd Tonkin * INDEPENDENT *A hilarious, ribald and often shocking tale told elegantly and with much candidness. * CATHOLIC HERALD *I was hooked from the start – Giles Deacon * HARPER’S BAZAAR *Life may be the best rock star autobiography ever. * CLASSIC ROCK *A memoir so full of incident it feels like the author’s lived three lives, not one. * SUNDAY TIMES *The fact that Keith is still alive to tell the story is incredible. – Chris Tarrant * THE SUNDAY EXPRESS S MAGAZINE *

Born in Dartford in Kent in December 1943, Keith Richards continues to compose, play songs and tour with the Rolling Stones.