RaveThe TelegraphOver more than 500 pages, its narrative only rarely fails to grip. Written in collaboration with James Fox (the author of White Mischief) I’d guess that Keef mostly talked and Fox merely tidied up the tape. The effect is mesmerising. It’s like being button-holed by a piratical ancient mariner with amazing tales to tell ... Life offers much more than vicarious thrills. It captures the true spirit of rock and roll, the nitty-gritty of life on the road, and just what it feels like to be a heroin addict who doesn’t know where his next fix is coming from ... It also movingly captures Richards’s extraordinary love of music – an even more powerful addiction for him than smack – and perhaps more surprisingly, his manifest decency as a human being.
