Keith Richards has been the subject of many lurid rumors; most of them turn out to be understatements. But a few days ago the website Worst Previews ran the oddest bit of gossip: that the Disney Company was considering axing the Rolling Stones guitarist from playing Captain Teague in the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film — because Richards, in his new autobiography Life, reveals that he has used drugs. He what? Somebody call the cops and arrest this man! Satisfaction” that came to him in his sleep 45 years ago, he can seem the coolest extra in Dawn of the Dead. He still plays up a storm onstage — including when a lump of white phosphorous from a fireworks display burned through his finger and he kept on performing — yet he leaves not just the strutting showmanship but most of the talking to Jagger. Have the drugs left him incommunicado?
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