Keith Richards: An English Werewolf in London
Mat Snow, NME, 22 February 1986
WHAT BECOMES a legend most? So exactly how I'd imagined it was the scene that I wouldn't have dared make it up. Before we enter, a bottleneck guitar lick crows hornily from behind the gilt-numbered door of his suite in London's Savoy Hotel.
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