{"id":747498,"date":"2026-06-19T15:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/747498\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T15:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:21:11","slug":"we-were-in-his-dressing-room-i-was-having-a-peek-at-his-guitar-and-i-was-just-about-to-stroke-it-and-he-went-nobody-touches-it-and-bam-keith-richards-recalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/747498\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe were in his dressing room, I was having a peek at his guitar and I was just about to stroke it, and he went: \u2018Nobody touches it!\u2019 And bam!\u201d: Keith Richards recalls the time Chuck Berry punched him for touching his guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"

The release of the 25th Rolling Stones studio album, Foreign Tongues<\/a>, is just three weeks\u2019 away, which means rounds of interviews for the three remaining core members of the band. And, right on cue, Keith Richards has been sharing his thoughts on where the Stones are at in 2026, his relationship with Mick and technology. <\/p>\n

So, what do we find out? Well, regarding the latter, you\u2019ll be unsurprised to hear that Keith is not a fan of modern tech. The 82-year-old guitarist says he’s \u201chad it up to here with technology\u2026 I mean, personally, I think the world would be better off without the damn phone. AI is killing me, you know. Do I fear for the future of music? I fear for the future of everything. They don\u2019t know what the hell it does, so now we all dangle and wait.\u201d<\/p>\n

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His relationship to tech extends to \u201can electric kettle and that\u2019s about it, pal\u201d.<\/p>\n

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He and Jagger don\u2019t cross swords as much these days either, he suggests: \u201cThere\u2019s not as much jousting. He\u2019s broken his sword, he\u2019s broken his lance. It\u2019s another thing that Mick and I gave up, probably down to age. Or at least he hasn\u2019t come at me for a while, so I presume we have.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cMick\u2019s been very prolific lately,\u201d he says, \u201cwhich is one reason this album has come out so quick, because he won\u2019t bloody stop. And the momentum from Hackney Diamonds was such that this is basically carrying on in the same breath. I was just letting it roll \u2013 we had enough stuff if we wanted to keep pushing, and so Mick and I gave each other the usual wry look and said: \u2018Yeah, let\u2019s keep pushing.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hilariously, Keith seems to have no idea Robert Smith of The Cure is one of the guests on Foreign Tongues: \u201cHow did it happen? Don\u2019t know. I wasn\u2019t there. Andrew [Watt, producer] said: \u2018Do you mind if I put in so-and-so?\u2019 And I said: \u2018No, man, if it\u2019s a piece that\u2019s necessary, do it.\u2019 So that\u2019s how he got slipped in.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s more at ease waxing lyrical about Chuck Berry, whose Beautiful Delilah the Stones cover as the album\u2019s closing track: \u201cThere\u2019s something about those early records of his,\u201d he says. \u201cThey have an ease about them and a sophistication in a way, particularly in the lyrics, which always made me think that rock \u2019n\u2019 roll didn\u2019t always have to be the way that everyone used to think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI loved his naturalness when he was playing, the way he moved \u2013 his whole body became part of the guitar. He made me focus on what was possible for me, at the time, which made my mother shell out for an electric guitar. I just felt a natural affinity for him, even though he was a cussed bugger.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe punched me once, years ago, in the 60s, I think,\u201d he reveals. \u201cWe were in his dressing room, I was having a peek at his guitar and I was just about to stroke it, and he went: \u2018Nobody touches it!\u2019 And bam! Quite right, Chuck! I would have done the same.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The release of the 25th Rolling Stones studio album, Foreign Tongues, is just three weeks\u2019 away, which means…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-747498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}