Rolling Stones ‘ Concert in Paris : Keith Richards, check out the aristocrat behind the rock-star – Gala

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The Rolling Stones are in concert 19, 22 and 25 October in Paris. Zoom in on the habits and customs of Keith Richards, the black baron rock.

The curtain may still rise. While the Rolling Stones play the 19, 22 and 25 October in Paris, their guitar player Keith Richards will assume the umpteenth time his costume from prince of death-defying. Sceptres, diadems, and other swords of the ceremonial of this son of a laborer ? A fag in his mouth, a bottle of bourbon that began at hand, bracelets, rings skull, and the guitar shoulder strap, of course. Such are the distinctive signs of his status as a rock star, a term that became with the time an authentic sign of nobility.

Keith Richards, seventy-three years, is in fact part of the aristocracy that he has created, in the company of a few others. “These artists started from nothing have become demi-gods to a very wide audience, anywhere in the world , “says Philippe Manoeuvre, ex-editor-in-chief of the magazine Rock & Folk. In this very exclusive club, they are not very numerous.

Try to enumerate them : Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, Marianne Faithfull, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend of the Who, guitarist Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart… “ It’s important not to forget Bob Dylan and Neil Young. Neither Johnny Hallyday, the only French of the band “, adds Flexibility. Thus, this large handful of personalities, all from the music scene of the early sixties, is part of a sort of monarchy occult rock officially ennobled or not, it is according to.

If Mick Jagger got his knighthood in 2003, this is not the kind of Keith Richards. He had then said that he regarded ” ridicule to accept an award from the establishment, then they did everything to send us in prison “. In 1967, specifically for drug use. And, contrary to Jagger, it was never anything like this.A bit jealous, Keith? Maybe. In fact, the guitarist is grown in public and in music, a character of revolutionary craggy, leading to a life-style of the monarch of the Ancien Regime. “It’s been ages that he has an assistant to fill his lighter, or to press the button for the elevator “, plays Philippe Manoeuvre.

This pleasant paradox date of the end of the sixties when the Stones turned away from the style of the English aristocracy with great blows of boots, scarves, and shirts with jabots, offering to contemplate a negative decadent of the Great Britain, cramped in its traditions. “The most amusing is that the English aristocracy – in the image of the family Guinness – always sought their company, and most of them have become real friends, the Rolling Stones, “smiled Wiggle.

At that time, Keith Richards is rolling in a Bentley Continental Flying Spur, the noble vehicle british par excellence in which he came down from London to Morocco. “Owning this car, it was already going to the trouble, break the rules. Driving a car for which I was not born , “he explained, not without pride, in his autobiography, Life (Robert Laffont), published in 2010.

If this old poor man considers the outward signs of wealth as a kind of revenge, it does not stop him from loving the beautiful cars, driving a Ferrari Dino, Pontiac fifties, that he used on the Côte d’azur to reach the port of Menton and embark on his Riva, Mandrax, its off-board in mahogany. A beautiful object loaded jet-set, of course, but diverted his way, baptized with the name of one of its drugs chemical favorite.

As for his entourage… ” Keith Richards is a king rather lonely, without a real court around him, adds Philippe Manoeuvre. Sometimes, there is a tape in his dressing room, which distracts him on tour, his kids, his dealer… Its only true friends in the showbiz are the actors Jack Nicholson and Johnny Depp. It was also very friend with the journalist and writer Hunter S. Thompson, who died in 2005. “

Constantly on the road throughout the world, he likes to ask. For this, it has since 1966, a mansion in the elizabethan in the English countryside, a vast estate in the United States in Connecticut, a property in Jamaica and a flat in paris. Its few eccentricities? Pieces designed specially for the storage of his guitars, and furniture with handles in a death’s head, that it was built on measurement. Keith Richards is also the owner of an apartment in New York, in which Philippe Manoeuvre has visited him. He says: “when arriving with the photographer Claude Gassian, we noticed a wall of crate of Jack Daniel’s in the input. We said that it was just there so that it is safe to never run out of bourbon, so never ever envy him was the night… “

Still a dynasty at the shelter for several generations, in the measure where the guitarist of the Stones was considerably enriched in the past ten years, thanks to tours with the prices of the tickets very high. And, with four kids to the meter and five grandchildren, the offspring of Keith Richards is insured.

Born of her marriage with the top american Patti Hansen at the beginning of the eighties, his two youngest daughters Theodora, thirty years old, and Alexandra, twenty-nine years, since their teenage years the covers of fashion magazines the most prestigious, become almost automatically the muses of the biggest brands.

Thus, they are part of the very closed club of the daughters of rock stars who make careers of fashion models, artists or actors, in the image of Liv Tyler, Stella McCartney, Zoë Kravitz, Elizabeth and Georgia May Jagger or Lily Collins and Laura Smet. Of the jobs secured thanks to their plastic and their talent, of course, but also thanks to the invaluable part of fantasy conveyed by the surname of their father. “ They bring a little more, and we are always happy to see them grow up. And their parents are really deserving, they have never ceased to work and be successful , “says Philippe Manoeuvre.

Of its bond placed under the sign of the poppy with the dummy Italian Anita Pallenberg, Keith Richards had two other children at the beginning of the seventies: Marlon, forty-six, and Angela, forty-three years.

The latter, a passionate of horses raised by her paternal grandmother, is very far from the bright lights of showbiz. As to his big brother Marlon, a graphic designer, he is married to the French Lucie de La Falaise, niece of Loulou, the former muse of Yves Saint Laurent. Their big girl Ella Rose is aged nineteen years. She is also a model, such as the perfect incarnation of a lineage, where the nobility for the more authentic, the fashion and the aristocracy forged with the sole force of the wrist collide in perfect harmony. A little girl proud of her grand-father, a filibuster definitely of a very high flight.

Photo credits : gettyimages.

Photo credits : gettyimages

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