Keith Richards / Brian May

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🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

We're kicking off a weeklong series of some of our favorite music interviews from our archive. We'll begin with Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, who was our guest in 2010. He'll tell us about cofounding the band, writing songs with Mick Jagger, and how things changed when the Stones became famous.

Later, we'll hear our 2010 interview with Brian May, a founding member of Queen, and their lead guitarist. May wrote one of the band's most famous songs, "We Will Rock You." He'll tell the stories behind that song and Freddie Mercury's "Bohemian Rhapsody."

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0:00.0	From the WHYY in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross with Fresh Air.
0:07.8	Today we kick off a week-long series of some of our favorite music interviews from our archive.
0:13.2	We'll begin with Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, who was our guest in 2010.
0:18.8	He'll tell us about co-founding the band, writing songs with Mick Jagger, and how things changed
0:24.6	when the Stones became famous.
0:26.4	Later, we'll hear my 2010 interview with Brian May, a founding member of Queen and its
0:33.2	lead guitarist.
0:34.8	May wrote one of the band's most famous songs, We Will Rock You.
0:38.2	He'll tell the stories behind that song, and Freddie Mercury's Bohemian Rhapsody.
0:43.8	Two great rock guitarists coming up on Fresh Air.
0:58.0	Today we begin a week-long series featuring a few of our favorite music interviews from our archive.
1:03.6	Jay-Z, Lizzo, Rosanne Cash, Smokey Robinson, and Pete Seeger are just some of the people in the series.
1:10.3	To start it off, we have the interview I recorded with Keith Richards, a founding member of the Rolling Stones,
1:15.8	who is still the band's guitarist.
1:17.8	He co-wrote much of the Stones' classic repertoire with Mick Jagger, including Satisfaction, Let's
1:23.5	Bend the Night Together, Get Off My Cloud, Gimme Shelter, Sympathy for the Devil, and Beast of Burden.
1:29.7	A four-part BBC series about the Stones, with each episode focused on a different member of the band,
1:35.7	has been showing this month on Epox and is also streaming.
1:39.8	I spoke with Keith Richards in 2010 after his autobiography, Life, was published.
1:45.8	Keith Richards, welcome to Fresh Air. Thank you so much for coming.
1:49.3	I remember when the Stones started to record that in America we were expected to pick a team.
1:56.3	Who do you like best? The Stones are the Beatles.
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