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Life

The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the Rolling Stones legend

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By: Keith Richards
Narrated by: Joe Hurley, Johnny Depp
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The once-in-a-generation memoir of a rock legend - the No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller.

'Electrifying'
New York Times

'A masterpiece'
The Word

'Funny, poignant, brutally honest'
Sunday Telegraph

'Densely packed with incident... immensely readable'
Sunday Times

'Once you begin this, wild, wild horses couldn't drag you away'
Independent

'Life is pretty faultless as the quintessential depiction of the man in full and his extraordinary life and times to date'
The Times

'I was hooked from the start'
Harper's Bazaar

As a member of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the world, and over four decades he lived the original rock and roll life: taking the chances he wanted, speaking his mind, and making it all work in a way that no one before him had ever done.

Now, at last, the man himself tells us the story of life in the crossfire hurricane. In Life, Keith narrates his loves and losses, stratospheric fame and success, and the endless stories which have led to his enduring image as outlaw and folk hero.

In a voice that is uniquely and intimately his own, with the disarming honesty that has always been his trademark, Keith Richards brings us the essential life story of our times.

'This is a good, gossipy read. But the best stuff is Keith on music. Check out his wonderful passage on Charlie Watt's drumming'
Evening Standard

'Dark, honest and gleefully indiscreet'
Shortlist

'Life may be the best rock star autobiography ever'
Classic Rock

'A hilarious, ribald and often shocking tale told elegantly and with much candidness'
Catholic Herald

'The fact that Keith is still alive to tell the story is incredible'
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Critic reviews

Electrifying... 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 pretence, caution or self-consciousness that usually attend great artists sitting for their self-portraits
Densely packed with incident... immensely readable. A memoir so full of incident it feels like the author's lived three lives, not one
LIFE is pretty faultless as the quintessential depiction of the man in full and his extraordinary life and times to date
Funny, poignant, brutally honest, engagingly colloquial, Life is pure Keith Richards, as good a rock memoir as you are likely to read.
A masterpiece, the most sustained, colourful and rambunctious rampage through his [Keith's] 67 years imaginable
This is a good, gossipy read. Keith comes across as a thoroughly decent man, with just a hint of the devil. His relationship with Jagger is complex and fascinating
Dark, honest and gleefully indiscreet from the first page to the last, it puts some of today's painfully dull musicians to shame
Once you begin this, wild, wild horses couldn't drag you away
A hilarious, ribald and often shocking tale told elegantly and with much candidness
I was hooked from the start
LIFE may be the best rock star autobiography ever
The fact that Keith is still alive to tell the story is incredible
All stars
Most relevant
Detailed, humorous insight into the lives of the Stones. Brutally honest, outrageously funny in places and raw in others. Too much detail about the drugs for my liking. Unless you have shared an addiction to heroin, I don't think most people would enjoy the third of the book dedicated the the finer details of being a smack head. Fabulous insight into the inter relationships within the group. Overall a good read but not in the same league as Rods.

Insightful glimpse of a hedonistic existence

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Keith and Johnny we're very good but Joe Hurley is with out a doubt the worst narrator I've every heard. for me he spoilt half of the story.

poor narrator.

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Just awesome. Johnny Depp's narration is a master stroke. What a legend! Can't quite believe he is still knocking around after all he has been through.

What a hoot.

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Was it money? Why change narrator. Keith; you can't be happy with this. Impossible to listen to that pastiche from the other guy unless you speed it up. Shame. Really enjoyed it while JD was reading.

Chas and Dave narration.

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What made the experience of listening to Life the most enjoyable?

Just very very interesting and Joe Hurley's narration sounds exactly like you imagine Keef would.

What about the narrators’s performance did you like?

Joe Hurley is brilliant, Johnny Depp not so good. I love Depp but he doesn't really fit here and sounds very bland compared to Hurley.

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

It's amaaaazzziinnnggggg

Very honest, revealing and thoroughly interesting

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