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KEITH RICHARDS in conversation with Anthony DeCurtis
Friday, October 29th at 7:00 p.m.
Celeste Bartos Forum, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
FRIENDS PRESALE TODAY, OCTOBER 20th at 12noon.
$45 tickets for FRIENDS. FRIENDS must use their Showclix presale code to purchase presale tickets and their FRIENDS discount code to receive the $45 dicounted price.
SHOWCLIX or 1.888.71.TICKETS
TICKETS GO ON SALE TO THE PUBLIC THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21st at 12noon.
- There is a two ticket purchase limit per patron, through Showclix, for this program.
- Each ticket purchased through Showclix for this program includes a copy of Life by Keith Richards that will be provided to the patron upon admission to the program the evening of the event.
- Print outs of tickets will not be accepted. All patrons are to check in at will-call at the NYPL for tickets.
- Ticketholders must provide ID that matches the name on the ticket at will-call the evening of the event to be admitted.
- There will be no standby line for this event.
- There will be no live streaming of this event.
"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 the great equalizer."
--Keith Richards
Outlaw, hellraiser, and one of rock music's most gifted and influential guitarists, Keith Richards has forged a life that most of us can only imagine--and often envy. Amazingly he's lived to tell about it, and now this rock icon has given us the definitive rock autobiography.
In Life, the man himself tells about life lived fast and hard in the creative hurricane --from his days as a young boy growing up in a council estate, listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, to joining forces with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones to form The Rolling Stones.
With characteristic honesty, he reveals all the highs and lows of rock 'n' roll, from the meteoric rise to fame and the notorious drug busts to the women, drinking, and heroin addiction that made him infamous.
In conversation with Anthony DeCurtis, a music journalist, and contributing editor for Rolling Stone, Keith Richards will discuss the storied journey of The Rolling Stones, as well as his passion for books and for history. He will chronicle how he created the revolutionary, high-octane riffs that defined "Jumping Jack Flash," "Gimme Shelter" and "Honky Tonk Woman," his affair with the equally infamous Anita Pallenberg (the mother of three of his children), and the tragic death of Brian Jones. He will also discuss the personal values that have made him a proud, successful father, and a happily married man for more than twenty-five years.
From falling in love with his wife Patti Hansen to his relationship with his "brother," Mick Jagger, we follow Keef on the ultimate road trip we have all longed to know more about-- the story of an unfettered, fearless, on-the-edge life lived to the absolute fullest.
ANTHONY DECURTIS has written frequently about both Keith Richards and The Rolling Stones in the course of his thirty-year career as a music journalist, most notably for Rolling Stone, where he is a contributing editor. He is the author of "In Other Words: Artists Talk About Life and Work" and editor of "Blues & Chaos: The Music Writing of Robert Palmer." His essay accompanying the Eric Clapton box set "Crossroads" won a Grammy in the "Best Album Notes" category. He holds a Ph.D. in American literature, and teaches in the writing program at the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in New York City, where he was born and bred.
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