…Just now with cocaine”.

Awhile back we reported that Keith Richards snorted his fathers ashes with cocaine, coming directly from Richards to a magazine.   Now, Richards claims this was simply a joke…

He says, “The cocaine bit was rubbish (not true). I said I chopped him up like cocaine, not with. I’d opened his box up and said, ‘Jesus, I’ve got to do something with dad, y’know, plant the oak tree.’ “I pulled the lid off and out comes a bit of dad on the dining room table. I’m going, ‘I can’t use the brush and dustpan for this’. So you just gotta like, put it together. “What I found out is that ingesting your ancestors is a very respectable way of… y’know, he went down a treat”.

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LOS ANGELES - “Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has signed a deal reportedly worth more than US$7 million ($9.29 million) to write his autobiography, a tome that will trace his trek from cherubic choirboy to rock ‘n’ roll survivor.

The memoir will hit stores in the fall of 2010, said New York-based publisher Little, Brown and Co, which partnered with Britain’s Weidenfeld & Nicolson to secure worldwide English-language rights.

Media reports said on Tuesday a bidding war pushed the price above US$7 million, a hefty sum given that music-based books are traditionally not big sellers. Legendary guitarist Eric Clapton reportedly received a US$5 million advance for his upcoming memoir.

Richards, 63, will collaborate on the book with James Fox, author of the 1982 murder mystery White Mischief. The Stones guitarist becomes only the second member of the venerable band to write his memoir, following former bassist Bill Wyman, who wrote Stone Alone in 1990. Singer Mick Jagger started to write an autobiography, but soon got bored and abandoned the idea.”

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