Keith Richards

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December 18, 1943 in Dartford, Kent, England, The United Kingdom

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Biographies & Memoirs, Poetry

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Keith Richards is an English guitarist, songwriter, singer, producer and founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm playing. In 2003 Richards was ranked 10th on Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

With songwriting partner and Rolling Stones lead vocalist Mick Jagger, Richards has written and recorded hundreds of songs, fourteen of which Rolling Stone magazine lists among the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".

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Books by Keith Richards

Average rating: 3.79 · 12,167 ratings · 2,105 reviews · 22 distinct works

	Life 3.79 avg rating — 12,080 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Keith Richards: In His Own Words by Keith Richards, Mick St. Michael, Chris Charlesworth (Editor) 4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	Życie by Keith Richards, Magdalena Bugajska (Translator), James Fox 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	The iPad Review: Your Guide to the Exciting Apple iPad 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	The Electric Guitar by Paul Trynka, Keith Richards (Foreword) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Agile Project Management: Running Prince2 Projects With Dsdm Atern: Running Prince2 Projects With Dsdm Atern by Keith Richards, OGC - Office of Government Commerce 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Animated Poems 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters by Robert Gordon, Keith Richards 3.84 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	According to the Rolling Stones by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood 4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	My rating:
	All Access: The Rock 'N' Roll Photography of Ken Regan by Jim Jerome (Photographer), Ken Regan (Photographer), Keith Richards (Preface) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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Quotes by Keith Richards

“If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.”
― Keith Richards, Keith Richards: In His Own Words

tags: drugs , music , philosophy , politics

842 people liked it

“Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.”
― Keith Richards, According to the Rolling Stones

tags: bones , emotions , keith-richards , language , music , the-rolling-stones

32 people liked it

“When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.”
― Keith Richards

tags: awesome , libraries , library

23 people liked it

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Which book would you like to see as the selection for our Spring 2011 Group Reads category Biography/Autobiography/Memoir?

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

29 votes, 23.8%

My Life in France by Julia Child

28 votes, 23.0%

Life: Keith Richards by Keith Richards

17 votes, 13.9%

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

13 votes, 10.7%

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba

11 votes, 9.0%

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua

8 votes, 6.6%

The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Lost Loves, and Forgotten Histories by Sadia Shepard

6 votes, 4.9%

Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together by Ron Hall

4 votes, 3.3%

Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession by Anne Rice

3 votes, 2.5%

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder

3 votes, 2.5%

122 total votes

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