Keith Richards to Write Memoir for $7.3 Million

Keith Richards is getting paid big bucks to write his memoir – $7.3 million to be exact. Little, Brown, and Company will publish it in 2010. That’s a lot of money for someone who falls out of coconut trees and snorts their father’s ashes.

“It will be his life’s story,” Little, Brown publisher Michael Pietsch said Tuesday. “For nearly 50 years, he has been at the very center of the vortex of stardom and of entertainment as a cultural force. He’s a thread running through the whole thing.”

Richards’ life and work have fascinated millions, but his is hardly an untold story. Richards, 63, has been interviewed countless times, speaking candidly about his music, heroin addiction, love life and battles with Jagger. He is quoted extensively in “According to the Rolling Stones,” an authorized oral history published in 2003.

“All those interviews have been scattered over decades,” Pietsch says. “To have the story of his own life in one book, there’s no experience like that. And there will be stories he has never uttered before.”

The book will probably be interesting, but who knows if any of it will be true. They’d be better off interviewing some groupies. Their memory has got to be a little better.

Source: music.yahoo

Keith Richards to Write Memoir for $7.3 Million

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