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Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English musician, singer and songwriter, actor, and one of the original members of the rock band The Rolling Stones. ''Rolling Stone Magazine'' credited Richards for "rock's greatest single body of riffs" on guitar and ranked him 4th on its list of 100 best guitarists. Fourteen songs that Richards wrote with the Rolling Stones' lead vocalist Mick Jagger are listed among ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The Stones are generally known for their guitar interplay of rhythm and lead ("weaving") with Brian Jones, Mick Taylor and Ronnie Wood over the years. In spite of this, Richards plays the only guitar tracks on some of their most famous songs including "Paint It Black", "Ruby Tuesday", "Sympathy for the Devil", and "Gimme Shelter". ==Early life== Richards was born 18 December 1943 at Livingston Hospital, in Dartford, Kent, England. He is the only child of Doris M L (née Dupree) and Herbert W Richards. His father was a factory worker who was injured in World War II during the Normandy invasion. Richards' paternal grandparents were socialists and civic leaders; his great-grandfather's family originated from Wales.〔 His maternal grandfather, Augustus Theodore Dupree, who toured Britain with a jazz big band, "Gus Dupree and his Boys", fostered Richards' interest in guitar.〔 On the 25th October 2015 Keith Richards stated on the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Desert Island Discs’, (available on the BBC iPlayer) that his grandfather ‘Gus’ Dupree gave him his first guitar. His grandfather ‘teased’ the young Richards with a guitar that was on a shelf that Richards couldn’t reach at the time. Finally Gus told Richards, that if Richards could reach the guitar then he could have it. Richards then devised all manner of ways of reaching the guitar, putting books and cushions on a chair and finally Richards got the guitar and his grandfather let him have it. His grandfather taught him the rudiments of Richards' first tune, “Malaguena”. He worked on the number ‘like mad’ and then his grandfather let him keep the guitar. He called it ‘the prize of the century’. Richards played at home, listening to recordings by Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and others.〔 His father, on the other hand, disparaged his son's musical enthusiasm. One of Richards' first guitar heroes was Scotty Moore.〔 Richards attended Wentworth Primary School with Mick Jagger and was his neighbour until 1954, when the family moved. From 1955 to 1959 he attended Dartford Technical High School for Boys.〔 Recruited by Dartford Tech's choirmaster, R. W. "Jake" Clare, Richards sang in a trio of boy sopranos at, among other occasions, Westminster Abbey for Queen Elizabeth II.〔 In 1959 Richards was expelled from Dartford Tech for truancy, and transferred to Sidcup Art College.〔 At Sidcup he was diverted from his studies proper and devoted more time to playing guitar with other students in the boys' room. At this point Richards had learned most of Chuck Berry's solos.〔 Richards met Jagger on a train as Jagger was heading for classes at the London School of Economics.〔 The mail-order rhythm & blues albums from Chess Records by Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters that Jagger was carrying revealed a mutual interest and led to a renewal of their friendship. Along with mutual friend Dick Taylor, Jagger was singing in an amateur band: ''Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys'', which Richards soon joined. The Blues Boys folded when Brian Jones, after sharing thoughts on their joint interest in the blues music, invited Mick and Keith to the Bricklayers Arms pub, where they then met Ian Stewart.〔''It's Only Rock 'n' Roll, The Ultimate Guide to the Rolling Stones'', James Karnbach and Carol Bernson, Facts on File Inc., New York, NY., 1997〕〔Ian Stewart Interview by Lisa Robinson, ''Creem'' Magazine, June 1976〕 In mid-1962 Richards had left Sidcup Art College to devote himself to music and moved into a London flat with Jagger and Jones. His parents divorced about the same time, resulting in his staying close to his mother and remaining estranged from his father until 1982.〔 After the Rolling Stones signed to Decca Records in 1963 their band manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, dropped the ''s'' from Richards' surname believing "Keith Richard" in his words "looked more pop".〔 In the early 1970s Richards re-established the ''s'' in his surname. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Keith Richards」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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