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Date Posted: 14:46:44 10/28/10 Thu
Author: WOW
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Subject: Re: Keith, guilt? Ha!
In reply to: Lazlo 's message, "Keith, guilt? Ha!" on 10:23:57 10/28/10 Thu

I've not gotten much further with Keef's 'Life'. I'm at about Page 170 and wondering if I'll read past Brian's period in the band.

I'm actually beginning to feel sorry for Keith. I know in this hostile climate, with his revelations, or lack of revelations, cutting a lot of Brian fans to the bone, it's probably inappropriate to feel for Keith. But I don't feel sorry for Keith the man, more for the lost person I feel Keith has become.

I have also just watched the hour long Culture show special on Keith, which kind of supports the overall feel the book gives me. There were so many obvious Brian firsts that the show credited to Keith. By Keith's co author, James Fox: 'Keith changed the way men dress by wearing women's clothes' for instance. Even Bobby Keyes, Keith's great mate, afforded Keith overly spectacular praise. Add to this the fact that Mick Jagger allegedly read the manuscript to 'Life', which isn't complimentary to Jagger, and still let his friend publish a book that shows Keith up in a far from shining light (to put it mildly).

And that is where my sadness kicks in. All of these people have gone along on the juggernaut that is; the Keith Richards persona, as the outlaw rock star. They have either concurred with Keith's lapses in accreditation to himself of things that others, especially Brian Jones, did, or they have encouraged him, or even made things up for him, so that he actually believes these things himself. Not one of them has been a true friend and told him: NO KEITH, this book will only make you look a fool, or better still tell Keith that it really is 'All Over Now' and tell him he should be graceful and thankful for the great things he really did start up, along with the original five gladiators who loved to play the blues.

My sadness cuts even deeper because Keith really does seem like he is the 'Little Blue Boy' who sucked himself into a bubble, way before the Stones were ever thought of. I can't help feeling that his mother Doris was the heaviest influence on Keith, and no matter how and what Keith did, he could never pop the motherly bubble confining the emotional constriction he demonstrates, and as this latest venture of his shows, the way he weaves it all into what has become the Keith Richards brand. It really isn't surprising to me that 'Life' must have germinated from the seed of Doris' passing back in 2007, simply because Keith needed to find a greater good in his life than his adored mother. With Doris gone, Keith had to find a way of promoting himself into the position; held all of his life by Doris, of the one person who he truly loves, and is, in his eyes, truly loved by, and who means more to him than anyone else - himself.

Of course, at the end of the day, it is only rock and roll, and Keith will have no regrets for the life he has lead, so any sorrow for him is only reflective.

All I see is a lonely old man, who in spite of having riches to burn, no longer has a decent friend left in the world. For I feel that surely 'Life' would have taken a different and properly subjective line, if Keith did have the kind of people round him to keep him grounded, instead of the sychophants that nurture his every whim.

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