Keith Richards- "I Snorted My Dad"

Ask Keith Richards a drug related question...then step back and wait for fireworks.

"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow." he told NME magazine in a exclusive interview. It is just another addition to a long list of chemically enhanced depravity the Rolling Stones guitarist has under his belt.

His father Bert passed away in 2002, aged 84, and was cremated. Richards said his ashes were pleasant to snort. "My dad wouldn't have cared, he didn't give a s--t, It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."

The drug tinged rocker also recount his worst drug binge to NME. "It was when someone put strychnine in my dope," he said. "It was in Switzerland. I was totally comatose, but I was totally awake. I could listen to everyone, and they were like, 'He's dead, he's dead!', waving their fingers and pushing me about, and I was thinking, 'I'm totally not dead!' "

Richards is co-writer of chartbusting Rolling Stones singles including Satisfaction and Start Me Up. The veteran rockers will hit the road for the European leg of their never-ending A Bigger Band tour in June.

Richards said he has "no pretensions about immortality-I'm the same as everyone else-same as you, same as everybody, I'm the same old bastard, just kind of lucky." Indeed! Richards received emergency brain surgery to remove a blood clot after falling out of a tree while gathering coconuts at a resort in Fiji last May. It was reported the a jetski accident soon afterwards. His antics have earned Richards a reputation as rock and roll's luckiest, and silliest, survivor.

Richards also spoke of the impact his current, sober state has had on his legend."I was number one on the Who's Likely to Die list for 10 years," he said. "I mean, I was really disappointed when I fell off the list."

Richards has been arrested on drug charges numerous times and sought medical treatment for heroin addiction in the late 1970s.

One month after Richards' brain surgery another of the band's guitarists, Ronnie Wood, ended up in an alcohol rehab clinic in London after "overdoing it" on a night out. All these drug induced theatrics haven't hindered the band's success. Forbes magazine declared the British group the top money earners in the music industry last year. Their 2006 Bigger Bang tour made around $177 million.

Richards is now set to hit the big screen, playing Jack Sparrow's dad in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, due out May 23.

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