Life

Reviews / Votes

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 * NEW YORK TIMES * Densely packed with incident... immensely readable. A memoir so full of incident it feels like the author's lived three lives, not one * SUNDAY TIMES * LIFE is pretty faultless as the quintessential depiction of the man in full and his extraordinary life and times to date * THE TIMES * Funny, poignant, brutally honest, engagingly colloquial, Life is pure Keith Richards, as good a rock memoir as you are likely to read. * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH * A masterpiece, the most sustained, colourful and rambunctious rampage through his [Keith's] 67 years imaginable * THE WORD MAGAZINE * 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 * EVENING STANDARD * Dark, honest and gleefully indiscreet from the first page to the last, it puts some of today's painfully dull musicians to shame * SHORTLIST * Once you begin this, wild, wild horses couldn't drag you away * INDEPENDENT * A hilarious, ribald and often shocking tale told elegantly and with much candidness * CATHOLIC HERALD * I was hooked from the start * HARPER'S BAZAAR * LIFE may be the best rock star autobiography ever * CLASSIC ROCK * The fact that Keith is still alive to tell the story is incredible * SUNDAY EXPRESS S MAGAZINE * a masterpiece, the most sustained, colourful and rambunctious rampage through his [Keith's] 67 years imaginable -- Mark Ellen * THE WORD * densely packed with incident ... immensely readable -- Lynn Barber * SUNDAY TIMES * Funny, poignant, brutally honest, engagingly colloquial, Life is pure Keith Richards, as good a rock memoir as you are likely to read. -- Sally Cousins * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH * This is a good, gossipy read. But the best stuff is Keith on music. Check out his wonderful passage on Charlie Watt's drumming. -- William Leith * LONDON EVENING STANDARD * Dark, honest and gleefully indiscreet from the first page to the last, it puts some of today's painfully dull musicians to shame. * SHORTLIST * Once you begin this, wild, wild horses couldn't drag you away. -- Boyd Tonkin * INDEPENDENT * A hilarious, ribald and often shocking tale told elegantly and with much candidness. * CATHOLIC HERALD * I was hooked from the start -- Giles Deacon * HARPER'S BAZAAR * Life may be the best rock star autobiography ever. * CLASSIC ROCK * A memoir so full of incident it feels like the author's lived three lives, not one. * SUNDAY TIMES * The fact that Keith is still alive to tell the story is incredible. -- Chris Tarrant * THE SUNDAY EXPRESS S MAGAZINE *