Keith Richards Would Like “One More Bash” with the Stones

Keith Richards says he hopes to reconvene The Rolling Stones, but he isn’t sure when that might happen. “There is talk about [doing more songwriting],” the veteran rocker told GQ in a recent interview. “Basically I want to get the Stones back together and give it one more bash. I think they've got it in them. But it's about timing and an awful lot of very careful diplomacy.”

Richards also revealed that one of the greatest difficulties he encountered in putting together Life, his autobiography, was writing about the loss of his son, Tara, to sudden infant death syndrome. “'I really didn't want to go through and remember the death of my son,” he said. “You spend a lot of time trying to bury that kind of [stuff], not bringing it up again. That was the hard one for me, to relieve that.”

Richards went on to say that life on the road as a Rolling Stone, even during the band’s wild-partying heyday, wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. “It actually wasn't a very glamorous life,” he said. “It was a lot of hard slog, a lot of hard work. We were taking care of two hours on the stage and the rest of it; I wouldn't wish it on anybody.”