British musician, guitarist of the Rolling Stones
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The riff architect behind half a century of rock's most indelible grooves, co-writer of fourteen songs on Rolling Stone's 500 greatest list, and a man whose survival itself became part of the mythology.
Born 18 December 1943 in Dartford, Kent, Richards studied at Dartford Technical School and Sidcup Art College before befriending Mick Jagger and forming the Rolling Stones as its original guitarist and co-principal songwriter. His guitar style became the band's signature across six decades, while his songwriting partnership with Jagger turned into one of music's most successful collaborations. He sang lead on select songs including "Happy" and "Before They Make Me Run," played with his side-project The X-Pensive Winos, and appeared in two Pirates of the Caribbean films as Captain Teague—Jack S…
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Rap — so many words, so little said. What rap did that was impressive was to show there are so many tone-deaf people out there.
This morning on Dartford station a guy I knew at primary school came up to me. He's got every record Chuck Berry made. He is called Mick Jagger.
There are certain guys that are band players and there's certain guys that ain't. If there's anybody lazier than me, it's Eric (Clapton).
I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
I thought rock and roll was an unassailable outlet for some pure and natural expression of rebellion.
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