Keith Richards claims he was joking about snorting his dad's ashes

[LTR]

Keith Richards was joking when he claimed to have snorted his father's ashes along with cocaine, a spokesman said Wednesday.

"It was an off-the-cuff remark, a joke, and it is not true. File under April Fool's joke," said Bernard Doherty of LD Communications, which represents the Rolling Stones.

Doherty declined to say any more about why Richards made the statement in an interview with NME, a pop music magazine.

"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," the 63-year-old guitarist was quoted as saying.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070404/ap_en_mu/people_keith_richards&printer=1;_ylt=Ai8YZoOivQVxRjBo.wEcmVgnHL8C

[raccoon]

1. I wonder if Keith is really dead and it just hasn't been made public yet.

He looks like death warmed over.

[undeterred]

2. But its not hard to believe he would do something like that.

:shrug:

[silvermachine]

4. I think he did it....

...and this is just damage control/backtracking.

[idgiehkt]

5. I think so too

He was probably high on his father when he said it, too.

:rofl:

[pitohui]

3. i knew it, i knew it

i almost posted, "nice publicity stunt" but i didn't because everyone else seemed to believe it and i wondered if they knew something i didn't

need to trust my gut more!

[undeterred]

6. I have heard of people who added their relatives ashes to a jug of wine

and went sailing, drank the wine, and peed overboard, as that's what their relative would have wanted.

[idgiehkt]

7. niiiiiiiiice

:rofl:

I want to get my pets made into one of those life jewels where they make diamonds out of them.

[swag]

8. Gee, who could have predicted that?

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