Keith Richards Loves Amy Winehouse - Warns Her Off Drugs & He Should Know

March 16, 2008 by Dave Parrack

If you’re Amy Winehouse, and are seeing your career suffer (in some ways, and improve in others) thanks to being addicted to drink and drugs, and that rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle, who would be the best person to advise you? Someone who’d been there, and done that of course.

Step forward Keith Richards, the Rolling Stone with the worst reputation for being a big party animal.

64 year old Keith Richards, so he’s eligible for a free bus pass, gave an interview to the Mail On Sunday in which they asked him about which current musicians he rates.

He replied:

“There’s only one person, that girl Amy. Mind you, that girl isn’t going to be around long unless she sorts herself out pretty quick. Amy’s got to get smart.”

“I’m not a preacher. But I’ve been there and you have to pass it on.”

His band mate Mick Jagger also spoke about the impact drugs had on the band during the 1970s, explaining:

“It completely took over our lives creatively and we couldn’t do this and couldn’t do that. You had to spend all your time trying to deal with the police. The same thing has happened to Amy Winehouse.”

Richards and Jagger were speaking ahead of the première of the Martin Scorsese directed documentary Shine A Light, which is due in cinemas from next month.

Although part of me thinks the pair are over the hill and should just shut up, I have to accept they know more about the drugs scene than I do, and Winehouse would probably do well to listen to them.

And at least the Rolling Stones are proof that you can come out of the other side of a hard partying substance abusing lifestyle, and still have a career to show for it. There’s hope for Winehouse yet.

[Photo Sources: Oddsock at Flickr & Mike A Kelly at Flickr]

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