Not An April Fool's Joke Part Two: Keith Richards Snorted His Dad

Wow. NME, the revered British rock ‘zine, created a firestorm after its report that our favorite walking corpse, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, once snorted his father’s ashes. The revelation promptyed a classic pun-y Post headline:

FATHER
NOSE
BEST

NME insists the quote is no April Fool’s joke:

“The strangest thing I’ve tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated, and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.”

Richards’ reps say he made the comments in “jest.”

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