1- The tough neighborhood where he grew up also was the onetime location of the City of London Lunatic Asylum, where Jack the Ripper suspect Jacob Levy was once confined.
2- He never makes the first move with a woman. “I just don’t know how to do it,” he writes. “I’m tongue-tied.” Instead, he claims, his seductive technique was to create an aura of “insufferable tension” and wait for the woman to give in.
3- In the early days of playing small nightclubs, Jagger particularly impressed Richards with his ability to play the maracas. “He played four of them at once while he sang,” Richards recalls. “It’s a long time since I reminded him about the maracas. He was brilliant.”
4- Stephen King is a big fan of Richards and claimed he could never play as well as him, no matter how hard he tried.
5- He gave Mick Jagger the nickname “Brenda.”
Perhaps the most notable aspect of Life was how frank Richards was about his relationship with Mick Jagger. He spoke openly about how much the duo fought over the years. One amusing-if-a-bit-sexist anecdote was that he gave Mick the nickname “Brenda,” as a way of complaining about Mick when he was in the room. According to Keith, “we’d be complaining about that bitch Brenda” with Jagger right there. You can see why it took these two a bit of time to make up after the release of Life.
6- Johnny Depp used his mannerisms, voice, and personality to create his popular Jack Sparrow character.
7- As a youth, Richards belonged for a time to the Boy Scouts. “It was mainly a chance to swagger around with a knife on your belt,” he explains. Unfortunately, “you didn’t get the knife until you got a few badges.”
8- In the early days of The Stones, Keith was often seen playing Epiphones. He told Guitar World, “I’m pretty sure that Epiphone was on “It’s All Over Now” and probably some of the earlier ones from England. I used it for a good while, mainly because I had it. It was a nice guitar, because Epiphone was a branch of Gibson. It was a great guitar for studio work and in clubs.
9- His maternal grandfather, Augustus Theodore “Gus” Dupree, who toured Britain with a jazz big band, Gus Dupree and his Boys, fostered Richards’ interest in guitar
10- He has worn a skull ring on the third finger of his right hand since the early 1970’s, reminding himself “that we are all the same beneath the surface.”
11- Richards attended Wentworth Primary School with Mick Jagger and was his neighbour until 1954, when the family moved.
12- When the Stones first started playing together, they created a makeshift recording studio out of a bathroom. They did this not because of the acoustics, but because Richards thought the sound of a toilet flushing mimicked applause.
13 – Richards is no stranger to alcohol, we know that. But he’s coined a name for his preferred tipple. According to the man himself, “Whiskey wasn’t agreeing with me anymore. The old body couldn’t take it. Brandy is a killer, and wine is best with food, so somehow I settled on this.” His recipe is 2 oz. premium vodka. 1 oz. Sunkist or any orange soda. “Plenty of ice. Lovely.” Keith calls it Nuclear Waste.
14- He was a pirate king long before Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack. He calls the plane the band hired for their 1972 tour “a pirate nation”, moving under its own flag: the lapping tongue.
15- Early on in the Stones’ career, Keith shared a flat with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. They rigged up an improvised recording studio in their bathroom. Why? Because when the toilet was flushed after a performance, it sounded to them like applause. That’s what Keith says!
16- Was voted the 10th greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone Magazine.
17- Richards has written that, in regards to approaching women, “I just don’t know how to do it. I’m tongue-tied.” Apparently, he seduces women by creating an environment of “insufferable tension.”
18- In 1965 he bought a Bentley S3 Continental Flying Spur (JLP 400D) that he named “Blue Lena” after one of his favorite American singers Lena Horne.
19- One of Richards’ first guitar heroes was Scotty Moore
20- In 2006, while vacationing in Fiji, Keith fell out of a coconut tree, and suffered a mild concussion. He was taken to a hospital in New Zealand. What’s really surprising about this story is that there’s a Keith Richards injury that didn’t involve drug use. Or maybe that’s how it happened in the first place…
21- Apparently, Richards would rather hug and kiss than do anything else. He has written that he would go to bed with a woman just for the company.
22- The car, an S3 Continental Flying Spur, was one of just 86 ever made.
23- Richards Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1993.
24- He once nearly burned down the Playboy Mansion. At a party in the 1970s, he and sax player Bobby Keys accidentally set fire to a bathroom while playing “smörgåsbord” with their doctor’s drugs. When staff finally broke down the door to put out the fire, a drugged-up Keef, oblivious to the flames, asked: “How dare you burst in on our private affair?”
25- According to Mick Jagger, there were two rules for when the Stones went on tour. The first rule is that nobody plays on the snooker table unless he has been asked, and the second: “…you never, ever, take the shepherd’s pie unless Keith Richards has broken the crust first.”
26- Jumping Jack Flash was actually Keef’s gardener at his country estate Redlands, Jack Dyer. The inspiration for the song came when the stomping of Jack’s rubber boots woke Jagger from a hazy sleep.
sources
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUS259140598220101108
http://gulfnews.com/life-style/music/the-keef-facts-about-keith-richards-1.701023