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Rolling Stones Founder Brian Jones May Have Been Murdered
2:34AM John Cook | Journalism works! British police are reopening an investigation into the mysterious 1969 death of the Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones after a reporter handed over 600 documents from his files indicating that Jones may have been murdered. More »
5:55AM Molly Friedman | The always-surprising, always-annoying David Blaine plans on staying awake for 13 days for his next “stunt,” and Keith Richards has some anecdotal advice for him. As Richards’ latest bout of playing Dr. Phil proves, Blaine’s newest idea isn’t so original; Keef already decided to see what would happen by forcing himself not to sleep for 9 consecutive days back in the ’70s. As Richards told the SF Gate, “On the ninth day…I fell asleep and crashed headfirst into a JVC speaker, smashing my nose apart. I just lay there and let it bleed. It was a chemical thing.” While we’re sure these rocker words of wisdom won’t deter Blaine’s masterful and magical plans, we do suggest he avoids snorting ashes and takes Keith’s advice to nose-proof whatever fish tank he envisions pulling this off inside of. [SF Gate] More »
5:55AM Molly Friedman | The always-surprising, always-annoying David Blaine plans on staying awake for 13 days for his next “stunt,” and Keith Richards has some anecdotal advice for him. As Richards’ latest bout of playing Dr. Phil proves, Blaine’s newest idea isn’t so original; Keef already decided to see what would happen by forcing himself not to sleep for 9 consecutive days back in the ’70s. As Richards told the SF Gate, “On the ninth day…I fell asleep and crashed headfirst into a JVC speaker, smashing my nose apart. I just lay there and let it bleed. It was a chemical thing.” While we’re sure these rocker words of wisdom won’t deter Blaine’s masterful and magical plans, we do suggest he avoids snorting ashes and takes Keith’s advice to nose-proof whatever fish tank he envisions pulling this off inside of. [SF Gate] More »
Keith Richards: “I Smoke My Head Off”; Father Christmas: “I May Not Actually Exist”
8:32AM Clem Bastow | There are a few people in this world that you know will always provide hilarious/troubling soundbites, and Keith Richards is one of them (the others are George W. Bush and Kristy from Big Brother).
Doing his bit for every government’s anti-drugs campaigning, Keef – at the New York premiere of Martin Scorsese’s new Stones concert flick, Shine A Light – was more than happy to wax quotable about his, er, indulgences.
The 64-year-old rock veteran of the Rolling Stones said he is writing his life story, but it is proving to be difficult as he has trouble remembering what happened yesterday.
Former heroin addict Keith, whose career has been notoriously awash with drugs, admitted: “I smoke my head off. I smoke weed all the damn time.
“But that’s my benign weed. That’s all I take, that’s all I do. But I do smoke, and I’ve got some really good hash.”
Bless him. Normally stoners make us want to smack them around the face and make dramatic statements about throwing their microwave nachos IN THE BIN unless they clean up their acts, etc etc, but we’ll let it wash with Keef.
The man wrote the Satisfaction riff, ferchrissakes – most stoners would be lucky to write a shopping list for “peanut butter, red cordial, 2-Minute Noodles and… umm…” More » 
Supportive Mick Jagger Publicly Recognises Martin Scorsese’s Struggles as Actor
4:55AM Defamer Hollywood | Because our Sunday wouldn’t have been the same without at least four hours committed to work, Defamer crashed yesterday’s U.S. press conference for the new Martin Scorsese/Rolling Stones concert film Shine a Light. It’s not half-bad for Stones or Scorsese fans, with a rangy set list and intoxicating camerawork that both might run a little long for the average viewer. Not easily starstruck, we nevertheless felt a mild succession of twinges upon the band and their director’s entrance (”Holy shit, Keith Richards really does look like that,” etc.), none more acute than when a Paramount publicist, clearly by accident, let us sneak a question in. More »
Mick ‘N’ Keef Advise Against Drug Use; The Ironing Is Delicious
10:25AM Clem Bastow | Ho, ho, ho, those crazy old Rolling Stones, there’s no keeping up with them these days! Just what will they think of next?
Well, it turns out, they’re having a Pat Cash moment, and are advising younger musicians – or just younger people, period – not to indulge in drugs to the prodigious levels that they and their bandmembers did during their heyday (or, in Keef and possibly Charlie’s cases, still do).
We’d like to believe that Keith Richards gave his quotes while sucking on a Camberwell carrot.
“When we were experimenting with drugs, little was known about the effects,” Mick Jagger said at the premiere of a film showing the band in concert. “In our time, there were no rehab centres. Anyway, I didn’t know about them.”
Jagger, 64, experienced international notoriety when he was briefly jailed in 1967 for possessing drugs, but he is better known now for his devotion to fitness. He prepares for tours by running 12km a day, swimming and kick-boxing.
Keith Richards, the band’s guitarist and a former heroin addict, warned that if Amy Winehouse, the 24-year-old singer famous for songs such as Rehab and Addicted, did not give up drugs she could end up looking as wrinkly and wasted as he did.
“She should get her act together,” said Richards, also 64, whose reputation for drug-fuelled antics led many to believe his joke that he had snorted his father’s ashes.
Jagger had previously expressed concern about Winehouse’s descent into alcohol and drug addiction, saying: “I’m worried she might die if she goes down the road that she has taken.”
Last year, Ronnie Wood, 60, another of the Stones, who once snorted so much cocaine that he damaged his nose, encouraged Kate Moss, the model, to break up with Pete Doherty, the drug-addicted singer.
Wood said Doherty “wasn’t exactly very good for her, was he?”.
Aww, they care! Bless their wrinkly little hearts.
Although, we think Keef at least may be onto something – we don’t imagine many of these hot young druggy stars being particularly enamoured with the idea of turning into him once they pass 50, particularly the female ones. Perhaps they should start putting him on the fag packets? More » 
Short Ends: Taking Our Homie’s Weed
12:04PM Defamer Hollywood | We bestow the Defamer Medal of Heroism upon Dr. Mark Lowe, who helped save the life of a man shot point blank in the middle of a crowded Colorado Blvd. in Old Town Pasadena last night, and whose clinical emphasis on the word “weed” we’ve now savored approximately two dozen times. For the love of God, we beg you not to click on this photo of Keith Richards Photoshopped to have two mouths where his eyes should be. Please! Don’t! We beg of you! The LAT has a list about all the reasons they–gasp!–hate end-of-year lists. Well, whatever, LAT. We love lists. Particularly the AFI’s annual Moments of Significance, which, uh…celebrate the significant moments of our lives? “The Hollywood writers strike, the iPhone and the ‘hyper-tabloidization’ of television news” top this year’s list. Eddie Murphy is reportedly set to “wed any minute now in the South Pacific.” That smashing sound is a hundred 4 a.m. Yukon Mining Co. patrons’ hearts shattering. More »
“Keith Richards Cultivates The Freddy Krueger Look”
7:03PM Clem Bastow | Poor Keith Richards – you spend your life perfecting the sort of pre-death embalming that would have impressed the ancient Egyptians, and then the UK press go and compare you to an ’80s slasher flick antihero.
Yes, Keef attended Defamer Associate Editor’s personal God’s Stephen Sondheim’s celebrity-packed screening of the new Tim Burton/Johnny Depp vehicle, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street, and the Mail’s ’separated at birth’ editor clearly saw fit to make a few extra bucks before Christmas.
Problem being, it’s one of the crappest lookalike stories in recent memory:
You’re a little late for Halloween Keith! The Rolling Stones guitarist looked scarily similar to Freddie Kruger on a night out in Manhattan.
Oh yes, we see it… They’re both WEARING HATS!!
In which case, we’d like to suggest another one for them: Colin Farrell, who is often seen wearing t-shirts, alongside Mick Jagger, who also wears t-shirts. It’s like they’re twins! More » 
Ron Wood Announces Intention To Snort Cremains Of His Entire Family
7:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Even though Keith Richards makes all the headlines for doing things like snorting his dad, it turns out that Ron Wood may have been the Rolling Stones’ most accomplished drug addict. We’re just happy that Wood is finally receiving the recognition he so richly deserves. [Rush & Molloy] More »
