When Keith Richards gives you life advice, you listen. Why? Because he’s freaking Keith Richards. Stories about him are legendary. There is no way to ascertain the difference between truth and legend with this man – but I would wager 98% of what you hear about him is the truth. This was the man who was knocked unconscious – resulting in a pretty serious head injury – falling out of a coconut tree. And this was fairly recent, not during the Rolling Stone’s crazy glory days. Keith and Stones’ singer Mick Jagger were interviewed by the Mail, and Keith told them Amy Winehouse was the only singer he finds worth mentioning - but that she’ll be dead soon if she doesn’t change her ways.

Rolling Stone Keith Richards has revealed the only modern pop star he rates is troubled Amy Winehouse. But the guitarist - famous for his huge consumption of illegal drugs - warned that Amy, who was pictured recently smoking crack, “wouldn’t be around for long” unless she cleaned up her act. The Stones’ lead singer Mick Jagger also said Winehouse’s music would suffer because of the time she spent dealing with the authorities over drugs.

Asked which modern artists he rated, he said: “There’s only one person. That girl Amy [Winehouse]. Mind you, that girl isn’t going to be around long unless she sorts herself out pretty quick. Amy’s got to get smart.” Richards, 64, said he did not expect her to listen. He said: “I’m not a preacher. But I’ve been there and you have to pass it on.”

Jagger, also 64, spoke of the band’s trouble with the police over drugs in the Seventies. He said: “It completely took over our lives creatively and we couldn’t do this and couldn’t do that. You had to spend all your time trying to deal with the police. The same thing has happened to Amy Winehouse.”

[From The Daily Mail]

Is this a case of the pot calling the kettle black, or is it more like, “Hey, when even Keith Richards is telling you to lay off, it’s probably something you should consider?” Probably a little of each. If nothing else, Keith is a great cautionary tale. Look at that man’s face. Tell me he doesn’t look 92, and I’ll tell you that you’re a damn liar. The man battled a coconut for God’s sakes. I realized I already mentioned that, but I’m a little hung up on it. It’s not your average occurrence. If nothing else, I’d guess that Keith Richards and Mick Jagger are probably musicians Amy respects. Maybe their advice will merit a bit of consideration for that reason.

51 year-old former supermodel Jerry Hall isn’t above resorting to cheap tactics used by younger tarts to get attention. She ran into her ex common law husband, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, at a party earlier this month and pulled up her dress to show him that she wasn’t wearing underwear. For his part Mick, 64, was said to be initially shocked, but then laughed off the incident. He has a younger, but still age-appropriate, girlfriend and he knew that Hall was just messing around. Hall and Jagger have four grown children together and probably have a friendly relationship.

Even though Jerry agreed to annul her marriage to the rock star nine years ago, the former supermodel, 51, still is hot for 64-year-old Mick, pals say.

And when the couple -who have four children together - both showed up at a party at London’s Nobu restaurant in early February, 6-foot-tall Jerry flashed her famously long legs to reveal she’d “gone commando!”

“Jerry was wearing a black below-the-knee dress and black stockings,” said an insider. When she flashed Mick, at first he was shocked, but then he laughed it off.”

Texas-born Jerry is aware the wrinkly rock has been romantically involved with 43-year-old designer L’Wren Scott - who stands a towering 6-foot-4 - for the past six years, says the insider.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, February 25, 2008]

I remember seeing Jerry Hall in a 2005 reality show on VH1, “Kept,” in which younger guys competed for a chance to be her boy toy. The winner said that he never saw Jerry again after the show and claimed that he didn’t even kiss her and that “She was a little too old for me.”

Hall is currently the spokesperson for erectile dysfunction drug Levitra, and manufacturer Bayer released a press release saying that she will “encourage men and women globally to ‘Strike Up A Conversation’ and openly discuss erectile dysfunction with each other and their healthcare professionals.”

Hall is known for the quote “My mother said it was simple to keep a man, you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom. I said I’d hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit.” She still seems to be working that angle in both her personal and professional life, to mixed results.

Jerry Hall is shown on 2/5/08 outside a private dinner, thanks to PRPhotos.

We’ve had plenty of pictures of stars entering rehab, looking unkempt and lost, so it’s nice to see Amy Winehouse out and about looking great. Or at least better. She headed out of her rehab facility in London to get her teeth fixed. Glamming up for the Grammys?

Emerging from a second visit to a London dentist on Saturday, Amy flashed a bright white smile to onlookers before being escorted by her father Mitch back to the centre she is receiving treatment in.

This is a far-cry from December when she was spotted with gaps in her mouth suggesting her teeth had fallen out.

A friend close to her admitted at the time: “She has one missing from the front of her mouth, and another one at the back which is less visible.

“Her mouth is full of holes and she is desperately worried she is going to lose more. She has actually pulled a tooth out herself, which is absolutely disgusting.”

“Her gums are always red and sore as a result of it and some of the teeth are loosening.”

Daily Mail

It’s absolutely fantastic that her supportive family were with her. The Daily Mail picture show Amy as a poster girl for rehab, cheekily sticking her tongue out at the photographer. She’s gained some much-needed weight, her mouth is full of teeth now, and her beehive is back, and she’s fully dressed. Combined with her trademark eye make up she’s back to being the Amy we all fell in love with. Swoon. She looks like a recovering addict should look, not like when a celebrity sells their rehab story to a magazine and then gets some glossy pictures of themselves taken looking fabulous. No one looks great three days out of rehab.

Amy went back into the rehab facility, without making any side trips to see her husband in jail, or visit her crack dealer, or any other destructive behaviour. She’s also apparently turned down the Osbournes’ offer to stay with them after she checks out. While I’m not sure if Ozzy and Sharon should be trusted with anyone’s mental health - they couldn’t even train their dogs - Ozzy is a good example of why you should stay off the drugs. If I’m going to have an exciting, amazing music career, I’d like to remember it.

The ever charming Keith Richards also has some advice for Amy.

Asked at the Berlin International Film Festival - where he’s promoting new Martin Scorsese Rolling Stones documentary ‘Shine A Light’ – whether he had advice for Amy and her battle with drugs, Richards answered, “She should get her act together.”

The veteran rocker – no stranger to addictive substances himself – then helpfully added, “Apart from that, I have got nothing to say to the bitch.”

Gigwise

He’s an absolute gentleman, isn’t he? Don’t hold your breath waiting for Keith Richards to get his act together. Mick Jagger added that when the Rolling Stones were young, there were no rehab facilities, or at least they weren’t aware of them.

Amy won five Grammys last night. Her album “Back to Black” won for best pop vocal album, she received best female pop vocal performance and single of the year for “Rehab,” , and she also won best female pop vocalist and best new artist.

Thanks to The Daily Mail and WENN for the header image.l

Keith Richards is a good example for children. Kids, don’t do drugs – you might snort your father up like cocaine, or pull a gun on your bandmate, or forget how to play music. Music you wrote and played for half a century. Ronnie Wood, the young one in the Rolling Stones, has put out these claims in his autobiography. Which are probably true, unless they are his own delusional drug flashbacks.

Keith was reportedly furious with Ronnie for smoking purified cocaine in a method known as freebasing.

Ronnie recalls: “After a row with Keith one day, he stormed off to get his gun. I warned everyone to ‘clear the decks’. Keith came back with his Derringer gun, pointed it at me and yelled, ‘You f***ing b*****d Woody!’.

“But I had my own gun, a .44 Magnum. I didn’t have any bullets for it but I calmly pulled it out. And that was the last time Keith pulled a gun on me - until the next time.”

In the tome, Ronnie confesses he became so addicted to cocaine he once banned his children from eating meringues in the house after he mistook a white crumb for a chunk of the drug and attempted to smoke it.

New Zealand Herald

Say no to drugs kids.

There are rumours around again that the Rolling Stones are going to retire – but Mick Jagger doesn’t think so.

Answering questions from readers of the BBC News website, the star, who has just spent two years touring with the band, said they had no plans to retire.

“I’m sure the Rolling Stones will do more things and more records and more tours. We’ve got no plans to stop any of that really,” the 64-year-old said.

“As far as I’m concerned I’m sure we’ll continue,” he added.

BBC

The Rolling Stones made $558,255,524 on their Bigger Bang tour, despite issues facing the band. Like Keith Richards falling out of a coconut tree in Fiji and suffering a head injury. Why would you retire? Why wouldn’t you keep travelling the world, having mini-breaks in Fiji, and making gazillions? I guess Ronnie’s allegations of the Stones forgetting how the songs go can’t be too serious – they remember them well enough for their shows.

The Stones are shown in 8/20/06 performing at Twickenham in London, thanks to PRPhotos.