They have been friends and bandmates for almost six decades, and have been open about the rollercoaster relationship they have shared since the 1960s.
And Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has been forced to issue a grovelling apology to frontman Mick Jagger after he labelled him a ‘randy old b*****d’ and said the 74-year-old father of eight should get a vasectomy, in a candid chat with The Wall Street Journal.
Keith, 74, tweeted an apology after making comments that Mick, 74, who welcomed his eighth child in December 2016, ‘couldn’t be a father at that age’ and expressed worry for his ‘poor kids’.
Sorry: Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has been forced to issue a grovelling apology to frontman Mick Jagger after he labelled him a ‘randy old b*****d’ and said the 74-year-old father of eight should get a vasectomy, in a candid chat with The Wall Street Journal
The remorseful Gimme Shelter hitmaker wrote: ‘I deeply regret the comments I made about Mick in the WSJ which were completely out of line. I have of course apologised to him in person.’
Mick welcomed his eighth child, son Deveraux Octavian Basil Jagger on December 8, 2016, with ballerina girlfriend Melanie Hamrick, 30.
In in the interview Keith said: Mick’s a randy old b*****d. It’s time for the snip—you can’t be a father at that age. Those poor kids!’
Oh dear: The remorseful Gimme Shelter hitmaker wrote: ‘I deeply regret the comments I made about Mick in the WSJ which were completely out of line. I have of course apologised to him in person.’
Fire: They have been friends and bandmates for almost six decades, and have been open about the rollercoaster relationship they have shared since the 1960s
Opening up about the pair’s at times tumultuous relationship, which saw Keith brand Mick ‘b****y Brenda in 2011 memoir Life, he said: ‘Mick and I would have spats anyway, no matter what I said in the book, and I left a lot out.
But the star said the talented pair feed off the energy between them and praised Mick’s showmanship and charisma: ‘Mick and I live off of this fire between us. It’s been up and downhill but if I’m talking about the Rolling Stones, there ain’t a front-man like Jagger.
‘Don’t matter how many bones you want to pick out of him, he’s amazing to work with.’
The Rolling Stones, also comprising Ronnie Wood, 70, and Charlie Watts, 76, recently fans as they confirmed they will tour the UK for the first time in five years, and announced five concert dates for the summer.
The latest dates form part of the second instalment of the Stones’ No Filter Tour, with tickets going on sale on March 2.
Their 2005-2007 A Bigger Bang Tour is the second-highest grossing tour of all-time, earning a whopping $558,255,524
The Stones’ last album Blue & Lonesome – their first studio record for more than a decade – went straight to number one on its release in December 2016.