NEWS: Keith Richards admits doping up on Daddy

And you thought your parents get up your nose. Rolling Stoner Keith Richards has fuelled rumours that he snorted his dad’s ashes. According to website Ireland On-Line, Richards embellished on the well-publicised comment made during an NME interview by saying: "The cocaine bit was rubbish (not true). I said I chopped him up like cocaine, not with. I'd opened his box up and said, 'Jesus, I've got to do something with dad, y'know, plant the oak tree.

“I pulled the lid off and out comes a bit of dad on the dining room table. I'm going, 'I can't use the brush and dustpan for this'. So you just gotta like, put it together.

“What I found out is that ingesting your ancestors is a very respectable way of... y'know, he went down a treat."

In the original NME article, the guitarist was reported as saying, ‘ I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow’, when asked what the strangest thing he ever snorted was.

It's probably not the first thing that pops into your head when you accidently dust your coffee table with a relations' remains. But apparently combing the area with a dyson and emptying it out at the foot of an oak tree doesn't cross the chemically suffocated mind of a rock'n'roller.

I suppose substituting white crystals for grey carbonised father maybe works in the same way as those nicotine lined puffing pens to a chain smoker. Maybe...

Words: Dean Samways
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