{"id":3221,"date":"2026-06-25T17:55:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2026-06-25T17:55:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:55:50","slug":"3-legendary-facts-about-keith-richards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/3-legendary-facts-about-keith-richards\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Legendary Facts About Keith Richards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At 82, Keith Richards remains a kind of mythical figure of rock and roll. His hard-partying history with The Rolling Stones is well documented. Yet somehow the guitarist and his band continue to record and tour well into their seventh decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With The Rolling Stones, Richards, as part of Britain\u2019s 1960s blues revival, helped define rock music while also raising the profile of Black American blues musicians, such as the band\u2019s hero, Muddy Waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So to celebrate Keef, here are three facts about one of rock\u2019s most durable legends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong>He Wrote an Iconic Guitar Riff in His Sleep<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Rolling Stones - (I Can&#039;t Get No) Satisfaction (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nrIPxlFzDi0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Richards woke up one night with an idea for a riff. Still groggy from sleep, he reached for a cassette player and recorded the notes he heard in his head. When he woke up the next morning, he listened back. On the tape, he heard a snippet of what became one of rock history\u2019s most recognizable guitar riffs, followed by nearly an hour of snoring. Thus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/facts\/the-rolling-stones\/i-cant-get-no-satisfaction\">\u201c(I Can\u2019t Get No) Satisfaction\u201d<\/a> was born in the middle of the night when the guitarist wasn\u2019t even fully awake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Open G Tuning and a 5-String Guitar<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hqqkGxZ1_8I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of great riffs, Richards often writes and plays on a guitar with only five strings, tuned to an open G chord. A standard guitar has six strings and is tuned, from low to high, E A D G B E. But Richards tunes his guitar, G D G B D, after removing the sixth string. You can hear this on Stones hits like \u201cHonky Tonk Women\u201d, \u201cBrown Sugar\u201d, and many others. For Richards, the tuning echoed his Delta blues heroes, who often used similar tunings to play with a slide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A Drug Bust in Canada<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beast Of Burden (Remastered 1994)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RlV-ZFyVH3c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1977, The Rolling Stones were recording in Toronto when Canadian police raided Richards\u2019s hotel room and arrested him and his girlfriend, Anita Pallenberg, for possessing and allegedly (because of the amount) trafficking drugs. Between the arrest and the trial, Richards became sober. And his attorney offered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sothebys.com\/en\/buy\/auction\/2022\/fine-books-and-manuscripts-including-americana\/richards-keith-the-official-trial-transcript-of\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this defense<\/a> to the judge:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI suggest to your Honour from the evidence that you\u2019ve heard that Keith Richard [sic] is a man who, by the pressures of his emotional makeup and the cauldron of the work schedule and into which he\u2019s thrown and the pressures of international acclaim, has become so racked that he turned to heroin to help him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The judge agreed and, during sentencing, said, \u201cNo incarceration or fine would be appropriate because of Mr. Richards\u2019s continuing treatment for drug addiction and his long-term benefit to the community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo by George Rose\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 82, Keith Richards remains a kind of mythical figure of rock and roll. 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