Life

The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the Rolling Stones legend

De: Keith Richards

Narrado por: Joe Hurley, Johnny Depp

The once-in-a-generation memoir of a rock legend - the No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller.

'Electrifying'
New York Times

'A masterpiece'
The Word

'Funny, poignant, brutally honest'
Sunday Telegraph

'Densely packed with incident... immensely readable'
Sunday Times

'Once you begin this, wild, wild horses couldn't drag you away'
Independent

'Life is pretty faultless as the quintessential depiction of the man in full and his extraordinary life and times to date'
The Times

'I was hooked from the start'
Harper's Bazaar

As a member of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the world, and over four decades he lived the original rock and roll life: taking the chances he wanted, speaking his mind, and making it all work in a way that no one before him had ever done.

Now, at last, the man himself tells us the story of life in the crossfire hurricane. In Life, Keith narrates his loves and losses, stratospheric fame and success, and the endless stories which have led to his enduring image as outlaw and folk hero.

In a voice that is uniquely and intimately his own, with the disarming honesty that has always been his trademark, Keith Richards brings us the essential life story of our times.

'This is a good, gossipy read. But the best stuff is Keith on music. Check out his wonderful passage on Charlie Watt's drumming'
Evening Standard

'Dark, honest and gleefully indiscreet'
Shortlist

'Life may be the best rock star autobiography ever'
Classic Rock

'A hilarious, ribald and often shocking tale told elegantly and with much candidness'
Catholic Herald

'The fact that Keith is still alive to tell the story is incredible'
Sunday Express S Magazine©2010 Mindless Records, LLC

Reseñas de la Crítica

Electrifying... the intimate and moving story of one man's long strange trip over the decades, told in dead-on, visceral prose without any of the pretence, caution or self-consciousness that usually attend great artists sitting for their self-portraits

Densely packed with incident... immensely readable. A memoir so full of incident it feels like the author's lived three lives, not one

LIFE is pretty faultless as the quintessential depiction of the man in full and his extraordinary life and times to date

Funny, poignant, brutally honest, engagingly colloquial, Life is pure Keith Richards, as good a rock memoir as you are likely to read.

A masterpiece, the most sustained, colourful and rambunctious rampage through his [Keith's] 67 years imaginable

This is a good, gossipy read. Keith comes across as a thoroughly decent man, with just a hint of the devil. His relationship with Jagger is complex and fascinating

Dark, honest and gleefully indiscreet from the first page to the last, it puts some of today's painfully dull musicians to shame

Once you begin this, wild, wild horses couldn't drag you away

A hilarious, ribald and often shocking tale told elegantly and with much candidness

I was hooked from the start

LIFE may be the best rock star autobiography ever

The fact that Keith is still alive to tell the story is incredible

great storytelling

Would you listen to Life again? Why?

No, I generally dont do books twice

What was one of the most memorable moments of Life?

narratives & storyline

What about the narrators’s performance did you like?

Keith & Jonny were superb

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

rolling with the stones

Great story. Amazing narration

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

It's very well written, funny and engaging. Extremely well narrated by Johnny Depp, Joe Hurley and Keith Richards

What was one of the most memorable moments of Life?

Great stories about how the Stones started

What a life!

It is my favourite autobiography. Thank you Keith for your music, thank you for things for us mortals.

A flawed hero

As a lifelong Rolling Stones fan, I felt this was a must read for me, but Im not sure it was such a good idea. LIFE is very much Keith's story, not necessarily The Rolling Stones, there is a lot of digression from the band's story but that's ok. The main problem I had with the book, was Keith's scathing and mean spirited attacks on Mick Jagger, it is relentless, adolescent and petty.
He doesnt portray his heroin addiction with rose coloured glasses, however I reckon he still holds a certain pride that he handled and subsequently survived the junk better than most.and the resulting unrepentant neglect, bordering on abuse, of his young son Marlon, whilst in the midst of his and Anita's self indulgent heroin abuse is what I found really disturbing. What a terribly lonely and dangerous childhood he had. I found the fact that Mick actually took the little boy for his first hamburger spoke more about the measure of a man and father that Mick Jagger was, than Keith could ever be at the time.
What is beautiful about this book, is his passion for The Stones and the music they have made, and there are some great stories along the way of the origins of many of their most well known and loved classics. His tributes to those musicians who inspired him and Mick in the very beginning are still who he holds most dear, his love for performance is truly felt in his words.
Anyway that's the story, and Keith holds it up for all to see. It was a lovely surprise to hear him narrate the final chapters and I would have loved him to have narrated the whole story. Unlike other reviewers I have read, I found Johnny Depp's voice quite emotionless and irritating after a while,.although Joe Hurley has a swagger befitting the author and was much easier to listen to.
After reading his story, Keith is still my hero, just more mortal and flawed to me now than he ever was before, and that's why Im not sure I should have read this book, I dont want to feel this way about him. Mick however remains my rock god.

A real character

If you grew up in the 60's and followed the Stones then this is a must. Its very long and if it was a real book I would have skipped bits, especially the sometimes long winded parts where he describes in great detail his guitar learning/playing, but this will appeal to guitarists I suppose. Overall I found it very interesting and certainly saw many aspects of "behind the scenes" that I was not aware of, like how they regarded each other, how he regarded the other Stones members skills and morals, what they did on tour and at home etc.