KEITH RICHARDS: THRU AND THRU

Keith Richards Photo: Sante D'Orazio

Just finished the gigantic memoir of Keith Richard's called "Life". I really enjoyed the book and all the emotions behind the creation of the world's greatest rock band. Actually I came away with feeling that I wanted to meet Keith and hang out for a bit. Read online recently that someone said that the great love of Mick Jagger's life was Keith. That bond is a river running through the entire book.

Keith Richards "Life"

"By turns earnest and wicked, sweet and sarcastic and unsparing, Mr. Richards, now 66, writes with uncommon candor and immediacy....He gives us an indelible, time-capsule feel for the madness that was life on the road with the Stones in the years before and after Altamont; harrowing accounts of his many close shaves and narrow escapes (from the police, prison time, drug hell); and a heap of sharp-edged snapshots of friends and colleagues...

Keith Richards Website

But Life...is way more than a revealing showbiz memoir. It is also a high-def, high-velocity portrait of the era when rock 'n' roll came of age, a raw report from deep inside the counterculture maelstrom of how that music swept like a tsunami over Britain and the United States.

It's an eye-opening all-nighter in the studio with a master craftsman disclosing the alchemical secrets of his art. And it's the intimate and moving story of one man's long strange trip over the decades, told in dead-on, visceral prose without any of the pretense, caution or self-consciousness that usually attend great artists sitting for their self-portraits....

Mr. Richards has found a way to channel to the reader his own avidity, his own deep soul hunger for music and to make us feel the connections that bind one generation of musicians to another. Along the way he even manages to communicate something of that magic, electromagnetic experience of playing on stage with his mates, be it in a little club or a huge stadium." (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times )

First heard "Thru and Thru" on an episode of "The Sopranos". Haunting and beautiful, honestly I had no idea it was a Stones tune. Found this great video of Keith singing it. I love a lot of the Stone's songs that feature Keith on vocals. Loved Keith's turn as Captain Jack Sparrow's father too. See a clip HERE Keith sure made a great gnarly pirate!

THRU AND THRU

(M. Jagger/K. Richards)

You know that we do take away

We deliver too

Open 24 hours babe

Just waiting on a call from you

Waiting on a call from you

Well I'm in the yellow pages

You just take a look

Look me up under services

You know it's just an open book

Babe it's just an open book

It's just an open book

Well baby

Any minute, any hour

I'm waiting on a call from you

And you know this heart is constant

I'm your lover, baby

Thru and thru

Lover, baby, thru and thru

I only found out yesterday

I heard it on the news

What I heard really pissed me off

Cause now I got those fucking blues

I got those awesome blues

Babe I got those nothing blues

Any minute, any hour

I'm waiting on a call from you

And you know this heart is constant

I'm your lover, baby

Thru and thru

Lover, baby, thru and thru

You know that we do take-away

That we deliver, too

We're open 24 hours, baby

We're waiting on a call from you

But any minute, baby, any hour

I'm waiting on a call from you

You know that this heart is constant

I'm your lover, baby

Thru and thru

Lover, baby, thru and thru

Lover, baby, thru and thru

Lover, baby, thru and thru