Keith Richards: Grin Reaper
Nick Coleman, Time Out, July 1990
YOU CAN look Keith Richards in the eye and ask him if he's spent all his adult life divorced from reality. He stops, inclines his head slightly away, as if to deliver an aside to accomplices behind the drapes, and adopts a look of kiddish insolence.
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