Tender Moments With Keith

GQ wins the following awards for its interview with Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards in this month's issue:

Best title: WARNING: Fifty years of smoking, boozing, snorting, touring, and screwing will kill you. Unless you are Keith Richards.

Best question: Do you regret not moisturizing your face?

Best tender moment:

GQ: You - Keith Richards - would call your mother in those dark moments?

RICHARDS: If it was bad, I would, yeah. Just to let her know. But unfortunately she didn't live. [pause] Me mum, that's another thing, man. [Gets choked up] I went... I went... We knew me mum was going, and so my daughter Angela says, "Dad, take the guitar out. Play to her. Go into her room." So I went up there and sat on the hospital bed and played my best. And she's out on morphine, anyway, unconscious. And I played the old songs, the old dance-hall songs. The next morning, she came out of her sleep for a moment, and my daughter was there and asked her, "Did you hear Daddy play for you last night?" And me mum says, "Yeah, he was out of tune." [laughs]



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