Stone the crows

In his memoir 'Life' Keith Richards admitted that he once considered becoming a librarian before the birth of The Stones, and recently he'd sought professional training in the Dewey Decimal Classification System to manage his large personal library (apparently he was painstakingly arranging his vast rare book collections of  early American rock and World War II histories via Dewey - but then doesn't everyone?!) Try to reconcile the hell-raising rock guitarist famous for his life of sex, drugs and rock n roll with that of an avid bookworm! 
And in a quotation featured on many library websites, Keith is reported to have said: “When you are growing up, there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equalizer.”

In his book, Keith Richards, one of the Rolling Stones' founding members,opens up about his childhood, rise to super-stardom, and personal life. From his turbulent relationships, including his well-publicised estrangement from, and reconciliation with Stones' front man Mick Jagger to his drug shenanigans that made even more of a legend amongst his fans. With the Rolling Stones, Keith created the guitar riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the world, and over four decades he lived the original rock and roll life: taking chances, speaking his mind, and making it all work in a way that no one before him had ever done. Richards tells all in this poignant biography.