“The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing...”- Keith Richards

.Confessions of a vintage girl inspired by Keith Richard´s masterpiece, "Life".

What do you do when you are surprisingly ready for a party and you have some time left? You trip over Keith Richard´s "Life" and you devour it like the first time. Such "literature" feels so familiar when you feel so close to a certain icon like Keith Richards. After all, he is my favorite Stone, kind of my spirit animal whose wild side is is too tempting to resist. This book has me under a spell everytime. It´s such an entertaining, captivating monologue, an arousing, provocative sometimes funny journey through the life of a man who had a guitar for a first love, knew every pleasure, lived many lives in one, experienced everything, denied himself nothing, flirted with most vices, never paid the price and miraculously survived. Pages back and forth make us voyeurs of his magical disturbingly fascinating roller-coaster of excesses, success, sex, drugs and rock n´roll. Nothing boring about that. We get on a turbulent hellbound train chased by cops, by cold turkey or by simple cats wanting a piece of their favorite outlaws in between shows. We become muses of inspirations like Ruby Tuesday, You Got The Silver, Sister Morphine, Wild Horses, Angie, Beast Of Burden, She Smiled Sweetly, Let's Spend The Night Together, She's Like A Rainbow and feel like being called Keith, Pallenberg, Faithfull, Hansen, to name a few. We witness how the Glimmer romance develops thanks to a guitar god named Chuck Berry, we get excited with the birth and rise of the band with the name of a Muddy Water´s song, fall in love and have our hearts broken more than once, visit the most exotic places, lose ourselves in the back of a Bentley somewere between Barcelona and Valencia, start a family, learn how to play an open five-string tunning, drift into heroin along with cocaine and the usual friend, Mr. Jack Daniels, compete and hang out with the fab four every now and then, party with famous models and artists, get high, drunk, inspired, write lyrics and play the guitar day and night, tour for decades, sleep just a bit and experience the heaven and hell of a great artist soon to become a rock legend. After closing the book, the clear thing on your mind is that Keith is no ordinary human being but i guess we all knew that already, right?. I´m quite sure he had a sympathy for the devil thing when he was young and sold his soul many decades ago. I don´t find another answer to his survival after such wild ride.
The good thing is that this beautiful talented son of a bitch is still rocking like a beast. Hopefully, he´ll play Malagueña for many more centuries.

This book got the silver, the gold, anything needed for my heart to pound. Thank god i had read it twice before cause i had to pause it this time. When the boy sees you cheating with Keith, you know it´s time to go. I did pause it but not so soon and here´s the result. He played with the camera for a little while cause he knows he can´t compete with the man on the book cover. I guess, you can´t always get what you want. I needed some Keith to get the party started. Besides, the party wasn´t going anywhere. Well, Keith wasn´t either but that book is so fucking out of this world. You get me, right? If you don´t, why are you still reading this?
Go, get it and rock on!.