Keith Richards on the Rolling Stones' Future and His Reluctant Solo Career

Rolling Stone Music Now

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🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Keith Richards tells host Brian Hiatt about the future of the Rolling Stones without Charlie Watts, making his 1992 solo classic 'Main Offender,' his reaction to Paul McCartney calling the Stones a "blues cover band" and much more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey I'm Brian Hyatt and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.
0:07.0	Today our guest is none other than Keith Richards.
0:11.0	Keith has a big reissue coming out on March 18th of Main Offender, which is his great second solo album from back in 1992.
0:22.0	We talked about that album in detail, the future of the Rolling Stones without
0:26.0	Charlie Watts, and a whole lot more. Here's my conversation with Keith Richards.
0:31.8	Mr. Richards, how are you today?
0:33.4	I'm okay, about you, you okay?
0:35.4	I'm holding up. It's always an honor.
0:37.6	Thanks so much for making time.
0:39.6	A pleasure, man.
0:40.8	I'm glad I had an excuse to listen to the Offender again. It's been a while and that
0:45.3	one of the things that's incredible about it is you could not name the year it was
0:49.7	recorded just by listening to it. You couldn't even come up with a decade. Do you know what I mean?
0:54.4	I get you, yeah, the timeless thing, uh, yeah, how it's turned out.
0:59.7	Mind you, a lot of the stone stuff was like that too, but I mean I've been listening to a main offender again
1:08.2	and actually I went back to remembering what
1:11.6	Wadi and I've and Steve a southern man this records this is not just a one
1:17.8	timer this is going to be around and funnily enough here here we are, you know.
1:23.0	It's interesting because talk is cheap.
1:25.0	Your debut soul album was made very much in a mode of, not to put words in your mouth,
1:31.0	but perhaps a bit of
1:32.8	fuck you Mick at the time.
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