Well, its out of the pen of the man should know. No longer urban myth but a straight up fact.
Keith Richards snorted his dad. There’s a nice first read!
During a press junket in promotoion of his highly acclaimed biography “Life”, Richards answered the nagging question true or false?
“True!” he says, of the ashes incident. “I ingested my ancestor, yes.” Richards goes on to explain that the episode resulted from an accident that occurred as he was preparing to spread his father’s ashes around an oak tree. “… As I took the lid off the box, fine bits of my Dad flew onto the table, you know, like powder,” he says. “And honestly I could not resist. I just scooped him up there, took out a straw and, ‘See ya, Dad!’ [sniffs] And I did a little line of him. Yeah. I did that.”
