ROLLING Stones wildman Keith Richards claimed he snorted his own father's ashes during a drugs binge, a statement which his spokesman later said was a "joke".
Richards made the extraordinary admission in an interview with NME magazine.
ldquo;The strangest thing I've tried to snort?
My father. I snorted my father, rdquo; he said.
ldquo;He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
My dad wouldn't have cared, he didn't give a s**t.
ldquo;It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive. rdquo;
His father, Bert, died in 2002 aged 84.
The 63-year-old rocker also recounted his worst drugs experience.
ldquo;It was when someone put strychnine in my dope. It was in Switzerland.
I was totally comatose, but I was totally awake.
ldquo;I could listen to everyone, and they were like, ldquo;He's dead, he's dead!', waving their fingers and pushing me about, and I was thinking, ldquo;I'm not dead!
', rdquo; he recalled.
But he said, ldquo;I've no pretensions about immortality - I'm the same as everyone else - same as you, same as everybody ..
. just kind of lucky.
ldquo;I was number one on the Who's Likely To Die list for 10 years.
I mean, I was really disappointed when I fell off the list. rdquo;
And he added: ldquo;Some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral. The obit columns are of quite an interest to me these days.
I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all. rdquo;
Richards predicted that Pete Doherty could be the next drugs casualty - and told him to leave supermodel Kate Moss alone.
ldquo;My advice for Pete Doherty is that he should shut the f**k up and leave her, rdquo; he said. ldquo;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.
ldquo;Kate wants to play with bad boys, and she's done one, and then another one, and then another one.
Badabing, badabang, badaboom. She'll live, the boys will die. rdquo;
And he warned rock stars not to emulate his fabled drug-taking.
ldquo;I did it because that was the way I did it. Now people think it's a way of life, rdquo; he said.
Of today's musicians, he declared: ldquo;Everyone's a load of crap.
They're are trying to be somebody else and they ain't being themselves.
ldquo;Libertines, Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party? Load of crap, load of crap.
Posers, rubbish. rdquo;
The Rolling Stones will kick off the European leg of their A Bigger Bang tour in June.
Last year their touring was interrupted when Richards reportedly fell out of a palm tree while on holiday in Fiji.
But Richards said: ldquo;I wasn't climbing a tree. I was sitting on a f***ing shrub. I was sitting on that shrub again today, but I happened to fall off it the wrong way that day.
rdquo;
He underwent brain surgery after the accident and revealed: ldquo;I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
ldquo;I've got pictures of it, mate.
They cut my head, brain, skull open, went in and pulled out the crap, and put some of it back again.
ldquo;But that's the way it is. I mean, s**t, Keith Richards has got to do everything once.
rdquo;
Later, Richards rsquo;s spokesman dismissed the story as one of the rock legend rsquo;s tall tales.
ldquo;It was an off-the-cuff remark, a joke, and it is not true. File under April Fool's joke, rdquo; said Bernard Doherty of LD Communications, which represents the Rolling Stones.
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