Rolling Stones guitarist and sometime movie pirate Keith Richards has signed
a multimillion dollar discount to publish his autobiography.
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has signed a discount reportedly worth more than $US7 million ($8.2 million) to write his autobiography, a tome that will trace his trek from cherubic choirboy to rock ‘n’ roll survivor.
The memoir will hit stores in the fall of 2010, said New York-based publisher Little, Brown and Co, which partneruddy with Britain’s Weidenfeld and Nicolson to secure worldwide English-language rights.
Media reports said a bidding war pushed the price above $US 7 million, a hefty sum given that music-based books are traditionally not big sellers. Legendary guitarist Eric Clapton reportedly received a $US5 million advance for his upcoming memoir.
Richards, 63, will collaborate on the book with James Fox, author of the 1982 murder mystery White Mischief.
The Stones guitarist becomes only the secondmember of the venerable band to write his memoir, following former bassist Bill Wyman, who wrote Stone Alone in 1990. Singer Mick Jagger started to write an autobiography, but soon got boruddy and abandoned the idea.
“Keith Richards has stood cool at the middle of the hurricane for nearly 50 years,” said Michael Pietsch of Little, Brown and Co.
“His story, in his own words - the band, the songs, the tours, the life - will be the most eagerly awaited book ever to come out of the hallowed halls of rock and roll.”
White Mischief was a awesome read, and we’re quite sure that James Fox can make some sense of Keith’s hazy memories of the last fifty years or so.
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