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Rolling Richards Stoned on Dad's Remains

Tue., Apr. 3, 2007 1:41 PM PDT by Gina Serpe

As a son, Keith Richards blows.

The coconut-wrangling rock star has added another sordid chapter to his chemically enhanced legacy, telling Britain's NME magazine that, in the wake of his old man's death in 2002, he actually snorted his father's cremated remains.

Probably not the way Papa Richards planned on going out.

The 63-year-old guitarist/freak of nature made the confession to the British music mag after being asked about some of the odder concoctions that have made their way up his nose over the years.

"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," Richards said. "He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow."

As for how dear old dad Bert, who passed away at 84, might have taken the news that his legacy had been reduced to ashy nose candy—the answer, apparently, is remarkably well.

"My dad wouldn't have cared, he didn't give a s--t," the younger Richards said.

Though Bert may have been pleased to know he gave his son a good buzz.

"It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive," Keith Richards said.

Which in itself is quite the achievement.

Richards also recounted to NME what he dubbed his worst-ever drug binge—which, somewhat surprisingly, was not his daddy-sniffing debacle.

"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!' "

There's a story for the grandkids.

Still, 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."

Richards also reflected on 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."

Devastating indeed.

Meanwhile, Richards also had some words of wisdom for the reigning bad boy of British rock, Pete Doherty.

"My advice for Pete Doherty is that he should shut the f--k up and leave [Kate Moss]," he said. "I don't know the man, all I know is he's pushing his luck and there it is, but so is Kate, who I know very well.

"Kate wants to play with bad boys, and she's done one, and then another one, and then another one. Bada-bing, bada-bang, bada-boom. She'll live, the boys will die...I did it because that was the way I did it. Now, people think it's a way of life."

Richards also offered a critique of the current British music scene, including Doherty's former band, the Libertines, as well as the Arctic Monkeys and Bloc Party: "Everyone's a load of crap."

Everyone except the Rolling Stones, presumably.

The veteran rockers hit the road for the European leg of their never-ending A Bigger Band tour in June.

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