Life The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the Rolling Stones legend
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Keith Richards was born in Dartford in 1943 and founded the Rolling Stones with Mick Jagger in 1962. He lives in Connecticut.Electrifying... the intimate and moving story of one man's long strange trip over the decades, told in dead-on, visceral prose without any of the pretence, caution or self-consciousness that usually attend great artists sitting for their self-portraits
NEW YORK TIMES
Densely packed with incident... immensely readable. A memoir so full of incident it feels like the author's lived three lives, not one
SUNDAY TIMES
LIFE is pretty faultless as the quintessential depiction of the man in full and his extraordinary life and times to date
THE TIMES
Funny, poignant, brutally honest, engagingly colloquial, Life is pure Keith Richards, as good a rock memoir as you are likely to read.
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
A masterpiece, the most sustained, colourful and rambunctious rampage through his [Keith's] 67 years imaginable
THE WORD MAGAZINE
This is a good, gossipy read. Keith comes across as a thoroughly decent man, with just a hint of the devil. His relationship with Jagger is complex and fascinating
EVENING STANDARD
Dark, honest and gleefully indiscreet from the first page to the last, it puts some of today's painfully dull musicians to shame
SHORTLIST
Once you begin this, wild, wild horses couldn't drag you away
INDEPENDENT
A hilarious, ribald and often shocking tale told elegantly and with much candidness
CATHOLIC HERALD
I was hooked from the start
HARPER'S BAZAAR
LIFE may be the best rock star autobiography ever
CLASSIC ROCK
The fact that Keith is still alive to tell the story is incredible
SUNDAY EXPRESS S MAGAZINE
a masterpiece, the most sustained, colourful and rambunctious rampage through his [Keith's] 67 years imaginable
- Mark Ellen, THE WORD
densely packed with incident ... immensely readable
- Lynn Barber, SUNDAY TIMES
Funny, poignant, brutally honest, engagingly colloquial, Life is pure Keith Richards, as good a rock memoir as you are likely to read.
- Sally Cousins, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
This is a good, gossipy read. But the best stuff is Keith on music. Check out his wonderful passage on Charlie Watt's drumming.
- William Leith, LONDON EVENING STANDARD
Dark, honest and gleefully indiscreet from the first page to the last, it puts some of today's painfully dull musicians to shame.
SHORTLIST
Once you begin this, wild, wild horses couldn't drag you away.
- Boyd Tonkin, INDEPENDENT
A hilarious, ribald and often shocking tale told elegantly and with much candidness.
CATHOLIC HERALD
I was hooked from the start
- Giles Deacon, HARPER'S BAZAAR
Life may be the best rock star autobiography ever.
CLASSIC ROCK
A memoir so full of incident it feels like the author's lived three lives, not one.
SUNDAY TIMES
The fact that Keith is still alive to tell the story is incredible.
- Chris Tarrant, THE SUNDAY EXPRESS S MAGAZINE