Keith Richards (musician)
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Richards performing with the Rolling Stones in 1972
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| Also known as | Keith Richard |
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18 December 1943 Dartford, Kent, England, United Kingdom |
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| Years active | 1960–present |
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| Website | keithrichards |
Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943), sometimes credited as Keith Richard, is an English musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer - songwriter and author, best known as a guitarist and founder member of the rock band the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine credited Richards for "rock's greatest single body of riffs" on guitar and ranked him 4th on its list of 100 best guitarists. Fourteen songs that Richards wrote with the Rolling Stones' lead vocalist Mick Jagger are listed among Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Richards plays both lead guitar and rhythm guitar parts, often in the same song, as the Stones are generally known for their guitar interplay of rhythm and lead ("weaving") between Richards and the other guitarist in the band (Brian Jones (1962-1969), Mick Taylor (1969-1975) and Ronnie Wood (1975-present)). In the recording studio, Richards sometimes plays all of the guitar parts, notably on the songs "Paint It Black", "Ruby Tuesday", "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Gimme Shelter".
Richards was born 18 December 1943 at Livingston Hospital, in Dartford, Kent, England. He is the only child of Doris M. L. (née Dupree) and Herbert W. Richards. His father was a factory worker who was wounded in World War II during the Normandy invasion.
Richards' paternal grandparents, Ernie and Eliza Richards, were socialists and civic leaders, whom he credited as "more or less creat(ing) the Walthamstow Labour Party", whilst Eliza also became mayor of the Municipal Borough of Walthamstow in London in 1941. His great-grandfather's family originated from Wales.
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