The Rolling Stones hellraiser is being asked to tone down his autobiography.
Three years ago Keef signed a £4.8 million deal with publishers Little Brown to produce what is possibly the most keenly awaited rock autobiography of all time.Now the UK's Daily Mail reports that insiders say he is being asked to tone down the tell-all aspect of the book, particularly in relation to Mick Jagger's past drug- and lover-taking activities.
Rolling Stones management have read an early draft and are reportedly the ones asking Keef to be more characteristically vague.
Of course, when Jagger first heard the news of the book deal, after turning down the opportunity to write an autobiography himself, he said, "It will be interesting. I would have thought that you'd actually have to be able to remember your life in order to write about it."
The Daily Mail quotes the insiders: "Keith once said he was finding it difficult to remember things when he first sat down to start writing it. But his memory seems pretty good. It's going to be explosive when it comes out."
While Keith and Mick have had a notoriously fractious relationship over the decades of the band, the most salacious revelation that has emerged from the book so far is that Richards is a bookworm who has had libraries built in his house. Hmmm.
The book will be titled Life and is due out In October this year.
