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Keith Richards: The Rake's Progress

Mark Ellen, The Word, June 2011

From the coal smoke of '40s Dartford to a one-million concert audience in the 21st Century, Keith Richards' rollicking memoir is the tale of an unimaginably charmed existence. In an exclusive interview for Word's 100thissue, Mark Ellen helps install a few stories he left out.

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