Keith Richard

Quick Facts

Full Name	Keith Richard
Occupation	Musician
Date Of Birth	Dec 18, 1943(1943-12-18)
Age	81
Birthplace	Dartford
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Keith Richard Biography

Keith Richard is one of the most popular and richest Musician who was born on December 18, 1943 in Dartford, England, United Kingdom.

Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the co-founder, guitarist, secondary vocalist, and co-principal songwriter of the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine called Richards the creator of “rock’s greatest single body of riffs” on guitar and ranked him fourth on its list of 100 best guitarists in 2011. The magazine lists fourteen songs that Richards wrote with the Rolling Stones’ lead vocalist Mick Jagger on its “Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time” list.

Richards attended Wentworth Primary School with Mick Jagger and was his neighbour until 1954 when the Richards family moved. From 1955 to 1959, Richards attended Dartford Technical High School for Boys. Recruited by Dartford Tech’s choirmaster, R. W. “Jake” Clare, he sang in a trio of boy sopranos at, among other occasions, Westminster Abbey for Queen Elizabeth II. In 1959, Richards was expelled from Dartford Tech for truancy and transferred to Sidcup Art College, where he met Dick Taylor. At Sidcup, he was diverted from his studies proper and devoted more time to playing guitar with other students in the boys’ room. At this point, Richards had learned most of Chuck Berry’s solos.

Keith Richard Net Worth

Keith Richard is one of the richest Musician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Keith Richard 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Richards was born on 18 December 1943 at Livingston Hospital, in Dartford, Kent, England. He is the only child of Doris Maud Lydia (née Dupree) and Herbert William Richards. His father was a factory worker who was wounded in the Second World War during the Normandy invasion. Richards’s paternal grandparents, Ernie and Eliza Richards, were socialists and civic leaders, whom he credited as “more or less creat[ing] the Walthamstow Labour Party”, and both were mayors of the Municipal Borough of Walthamstow in Essex, with Eliza becoming mayor in 1941. His great-grandfather’s family originated from Wales.

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Who is Keith Richard Dating?

According to our records, Keith Richard married to Patti Hansen. As of December 1, 2023, Keith Richard’s is not dating anyone.

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Richards and Jagger began their songwriting partnership in 1963 at the insistence of manager Andrew Loog Oldham, who saw no long career for them in playing cover songs. The earliest Jagger/Richards collaborations were recorded by other artists, including Gene Pitney, whose rendition of “That Girl Belongs to Yesterday” was their first top ten single in the UK. They scored another top ten hit in 1964 with the debut single written for Marianne Faithfull, “As Tears Go By”.

Facts & Trivia

Marco Ranked on the list of most popular Musician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Keith Richard celebrates birthday on December 18 of every year.

In 1965, Richards used a Gibson Maestro fuzzbox to achieve the distinctive tone of his riff on “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”; the success of the resulting single boosted the sales of the device to the extent that all available stock had sold out by the end of 1965. In the 1970s and early 1980s Richards frequently used guitar effects such as a wah-wah pedal, a phaser, and a Leslie speaker, but he has mainly relied on combining “the right amp with the right guitar” to achieve the sound he wants.

How is Keith Richard still alive?

At 66, Keith Richards’ continued survival is a source of widespread bafflement. According to addiction expert Dr Robert Lefever, director of the Promis recovery centre in Richards’ native Kent, there is only one possible explanation for his longevity: “ He must have the constitution of an ox.”

Where is Keith Richards today?

Richards still owns Redlands, the Sussex estate he purchased in 1966, as well as a home in Weston, Connecticut, and another in the private resort island of Parrot Cay, Turks & Caicos. His primary home is in Weston.

Does Keith Richards have a daughter?

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How rich is Keith Richards?

2. Keith Richards – US$500 million.