Biographic - Sunday June 10, 2007 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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Other than the four days he spent in the employ of the post office as a teenager, Keith Richards has spent his entire working life playing guitar alongside vocalist Mick Jagger in The Rolling Stones. 45 years into the job, the original rock 'n' Roll reprobrate shows no signs of slipping quietly into the sunset yet... He may well be the wildest outlaw in rock history, but as a schoolboy, Rolling Stone Keith Rochards was part of a choir that sang Handel's "Messiah" in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II at London's Westminster Abbey. Born in Dartford, Kent, on December 18, 1943, he was studying at Sidcup art college when The Rolling Stones formed in 1962. In contrast to their lovable mop-top rivals The Beatles, The Stones were the surly bad boys of Rock, and by the mid-1960's they were Superstars! By the end of the 1970s. The Rolling Stones reigned unchallenged as the greatest rock band in the world. But Keith's notoriously decadent lifestyle had resulted in numerous entanglements with the forces of law and order. By the early 1980s, however the most extreme of his excesses, and the worst of his legal troubles appeared to be behind him. He married model, Patti Hansen on his 40th birthday. They have two daughters together and he also has two older children from his relationship wiht Anita Pallenberg. (A third child died in 1976, a few weeks after birth.) His songwriting partnership with fellow Stone Mick Jagger has been one of the most prolific and enduring in Rock History, although there was a period in the late 1980s, when both pursued solo projects and the future of the band seemed in doubt. Since 1989, however, The Stones have continued to roll, releasing new material and embarking on increasingly ambitious and lucrative world tours. Meanwhile, Keith continues to grow old disgracefully, and the original rock 'n' roll buccaneer fittingly makes an appearence in "Pirates Of The Caribbean: At Worlds End."

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