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A14 PEOPLE & ARTS
Thursday 12 November 2020
Rolling with it, Keith Richards is chilling in the garden

By MESFIN FEKADU wetted that way. I wasn't
NEW YORK (AP) — Keith totally foreign to the idea
Richards is so old-school of it. Although, doing the
that when he does his inter- whole show like that, yeah,
views — he'll do so from a that's what I appreciated
landline. (about) Mick's job," he con-
The Rolling Stones icon isn't tinued. "It's a relentless thing
a fan of technology. Years being the frontman. In the
ago he admitted to not Stones, I can move back
owning an iPod when the and forth, hide behind
device was most popular. Charlie or stick my nose up.
He's one of the few people With the Winos, there's no
who hasn't downloaded retreating."
Zoom during the pandem- Though Richards is current-
ic. And he doesn't even ly in the U.S. and Jagger is
own a cell phone. in Europe, they've been in
"I'm not at all hooked in touch and have even trad-
any high-tech internets," he ed song lyrics for the new
says. "I don't even have a Stones album.
(cell) phone, man. I'm talk- "We kind of got used to that
ing to you from on a land- ever since the exile. Hav-
line. Why would I want a ing to work at a distance
(cell) phone? You crazy?" up until they threw us out
The unbothered 76-year- of England," he says. "Over
old rocker has been home the years we've figured out
for a full year now — a first how to put our stuff togeth-
for Richards, he reveals. He, er in different ways. We're
Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood writing stuff now. I think we
and Charlie Watts wrapped have about half an album
part of their No Filter Tour in done. We kind of got hung
August 2019, and they had up because of the usual,
plans to hit the road again 2020. I haven't seen any of
in May 2020, but things the boys since last year. We
changed following coro- talk, but I haven't actually
navirus outbreak. seen them. We can't finish
"I saw the garden grow, this album that we're work-
really quite unbelievable," ing on."
Richards explains. "Usually The world got a taste of
I come, it's spring and sud- what the album sounds
denly it's fall when I get like with the track "Living in
back. I spent the whole a Ghost Town," which was
summer actually admiring written before the pan-
the garden and also doing demic but released during
a bit of gardening myself; it because the band felt it
watering the veggies and strongly resonated with the
the stuff. I got into a more current times.
probably normal way of "Once the thing hit, I called
life, which is un-normal." Mick and said, 'This 'Ghost
While some performers Town' is so appropriate,
in their seventies, includ- In this Nov. 14, 2016 file photo, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones poses for a portrait in New York. man. Let's put it out.' We
ing Stevie Nicks and Bruce Associated Press did. It was amazing. It sort
Springsteen, fear the pan- of became an anthem in
demic is preventing them does have something to Charley Drayton, keyboard the whole world just the Europe for the whole damn
from hitting the road dur- give his die-hard fans that player Ivan Neville, singer Rolling Stones?' I suppose thing, up till now. Let's say,
ing their key years, Richards involves live music: On Fri- Sarah Dash and the late it was that kind of feeling. for wave one," he says.
isn't too concerned: "I can't day he's releasing a limited Bobby Keys, who played And I think Mick had it more "Mick wrote the lyrics," he
say I feel like a year has edition box set of his 1988 saxophone during the than I did. But at the same adds. "Maybe he's a proph-
been stolen. I'll just make concert at the Hollywood shows. time, we did need a break et, huh?"q
up for it later." Palladium recorded during The tour came at an un- from each other and as it
"I'm getting antsy," he ad- his first solo tour. certain time for the Rolling turned out, it was a great Solution Sudoku
mits. "I guess I can take a "Live at the Hollywood Pal- Stones — some thought the help to us both."
year off but it's in the bones. ladium" will be available on group might break up. Richards admits being a
I guess after all these years, CD, vinyl and digitally, and "The Winos came togeth- bandleader allowed him to
it's in our calling, the body the show was in support er because of the Stones fully understand what it was
and everything. It's like, of "Talk Is Cheap," his first around '86 said, there was like to wear Jagger's shoes:
'Come on, where's our solo album also released in a definite hiatus. Let's put "I learned so much about
show, brother?' It's kind of a 1988. He's backed by The it that way," Richards says, what Mick's job is — about
little weird, but at the same X-Pensive Winos, a group laughing. "It's understand- being the frontman. That
time, we've all got greater of all-star players and good able, especially in retro- opened my eyes to it."
things to deal with at the friends, including drum- spect, after those many "With the Stones, I do a
moment." mer Steve Jordan, guitar- years, Mick and I and the couple of songs anyway,
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