Keith Richards' memoir: 5 revelations

Rock's hardest-living sexagenarian has written a tell-all autobiography. Here are some of the best bits

In his memoir 'Life,' Keith Richards calls Prince "an overrated midget."
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The biggest surprise in Keith Richards' memoir is that he remembers enough about his life to have written it. The Rolling Stones guitarist practically invented rock star debauchery — yet remains alive and coherent after decades of drug and alcohol abuse. "Life," co-written with author James Fox, has been praised by critics. The New York Times' Michiko Kakutani calls its prose "intense, elemental, utterly distinctive and achingly, emotionally direct," while Richard Corliss at Time praises its "engaging prose style and spellbinding story-telling." (Watch Keith Richards discuss his career.) Here are five notable revelations from Richards' book:

Keith hates lots of people...

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