Keith Richards Says Snorting Story Was a Joke

A spokesperson for the band said that Richards was not serious when he told the story to NME magazine.  The representative for the rock band also mentionned that there are no other comments on the story.

A representative of the musical magazine reports that Richards did not appear to be joking at the time he shared the story.  During an interview with the magazine, Richards revealed that he had mixed some of his father’s ashes with cocaine and snorted it.  Bert Richards, the guitarist’s father, died in 2002 at the age of 84.