Keith Richards Admits To "Three Day Bender" With Lennon
The Stone and the Beatle plotted a road trip together in the 60s...
Keith Richards has been talking up his keenly awaited autobiography and there have already been some startling revelations.
Talking to the magazine AnOtherMan, the Rolling Stone revealed that he and John Lennon took a drug-fuelled three-day road trip around Britain. "We were in my Bentley," says Keef. "I said, 'I'm not going on a trip with you in that goddam psychedelic Rolls Royce. Let's go more discreetly in my little blue Bentley'."
"What happened neither John nor I could ever remember. We must have been on something exceptional. There was one young lady with us at least, and a chauffeur because we were in no driving condition. And we were just playing sounds."
The Stone also revealed that he'd carry guns during his heroin days in the early 1970s - for his own protection and to avoid being ripped off.
"I've carried a piece or two now and again - most of that was to do with the heroin business and being involved in, like, scoring. Especially in America, it bodes you well to be armed.
"A .38 Smith and Wesson Airweight revolver - that is the fucking gun. No safety [catch] on it."
'Life', the autobiography of Keith Richards, is published at the end of October.
Tagged as The Rolling Stones, John Lennon, The Beatles, Gossip
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