# Keith Richards snorted his dad's ashes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 3, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-richards-snorted-his-dads-ashes/398601 "2007-04-03T19:33:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-richards-snorted-his-dads-ashes/398601/41 "2007-04-05T01:08:11Z")
The fact that it was not off-the-cuff doesn’t mean he wasn’t kidding. I’d expect Richards to say something like that after deliberating, if he said it all. Anyway, I keep wondering is Keef’s mother is alive. If she is, what the hell is she thinking about this? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-richards-snorted-his-dads-ashes/398601/42 "2007-04-05T02:23:34Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] Anyway, I keep wondering is Keef’s mother is alive. If she is, what the hell is she thinking about this? [/QUOTE] Who do you think sold him the coke? ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-richards-snorted-his-dads-ashes/398601/43 "2007-04-05T11:05:14Z")
Personally, I think that it just adds to the man, the myth, the legend that is Keith Richards. So I’ll continue to believe it no matter how much they deny it. It’s just too good of a story. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-richards-snorted-his-dads-ashes/398601/44 "2007-04-05T12:24:45Z")
Keith, baby, honey, you knows I loves you, but when Daddy dear said he wanted to be buried at “C” I don’t think that’s what he meant. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-richards-snorted-his-dads-ashes/398601/45 "2007-04-05T16:27:26Z")
According to NPR this has all surfaced again due to his upcoming appearance in the next POTC movie. Disney is asking him to lie low…for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-richards-snorted-his-dads-ashes/398601/46 "2007-04-05T16:56:41Z")
[QUOTE=Madd Maxx] Actually, I wouldn’t doubt that Keith had enough coke to to cut in about 5 lbs of dad. [/QUOTE] Over an unspecified period of time (I don’t know Keith’s rate of intake) I’m sure you’re right. If he cut the cocaine with Dad at 2/1 this would save Keith the necessary expenditure to score an extra 5lb of the stuff. 5lb equals 2,268gm and so, at £40 per gram (current street value) Dad would save Keith the princely sum of £90,720. Call it an inheritance. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-richards-snorted-his-dads-ashes/398601/47 "2007-04-05T17:02:29Z")
Admittedly, I’d feel less squeaked about him inhaling dad than rubbing him on his gums. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-richards-snorted-his-dads-ashes/398601.md?page=2)