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• Rock and Roll News Round Up

  This week's big news in music was the revelation that Keith Richards hadn't really snorted his father's ashes with a little cocaine.  Like Stefania said in her post about Mr. Richards, I'm kinda bummed that it wasn't true also.  I think that would have pretty much cemented his grasp on the title of rock's craziest wild man.  But in other rock news, it was revealed in an interview with Sean Lennon that he remains unfazed by being the recognizable son of the legendary John Lennon.  In an interview, the young Lennon allowed that he only was thrown off-guard once.  Said Lennon, "“When I was 15, a cabdriver asked me if I was Paul McCartney’s daughter.  That really blew my mind."  (I'm sure it did, Sean.  I'm sure it did.) Lastly, music critic Sasha Frere Jones revealed that (unless google is broken,) one of his friends uncovered something that nobody has ever noticed before.  Gordon Sumner of The Police has a young son named Joe.  The younger Mr. Sumner is also a musician and has started his own band called Fiction Plane.  Fiction Plane is an anagram of "Infant Police."   How awesome is that?  Posted Apr 05 2007, 03:07 PM by MetroDad with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: keith richards, John Lennon, Gordon Sumner, Rock music

• Keith Richards Mixes Cocaine with Ashes and "Snorts His Father"

  Since we're talking rock... Keith Richards, the Rolling Stones' legendary guitarist, said today that "the strangest thing he's ever tried to snort" is his dead father.* His father Bert died and was cremated in 2002. Richards, 63, says he "couldn't resist" mixing his ashes with a little Columbian bambam and snorting a few rails of "Dad." Richards says the powdery concoction went down easy. You know what? (Kids, listen up...) To all you wannabe rock stars out there that think you know something, you don't know shite. (Yeah, I'm talking to you Snow Patrol, The Fray, Maroon 5, and Daughtry.) You're so not hardcore unless you can snort a dead family member up your nose. Richard's quote was published in British music mag NME.  All I can say is, "Rock and roll, Keith. Rock. And. Roll."   *Now Keith is saying this is a joke. I don't know about you, but I'm kinda bummed about that. [AP photo]  Posted Apr 03 2007, 05:24 PM by Stefania Pomponi Butler (CityMama) with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: fathers and sons, keith richards