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Keith Richards<\/a> is one of the most scathing voices in music, a crown he\u2019s worn proudly since the early days of his reign in the 1960s as one half of the notorious Rolling Stones duo.\u00a0<\/p>\n While that is also the kind of heroic characteristic widely celebrated in some of history\u2019s most legendary musicians, Richards\u2019 forthcoming demeanour has landed him in hot water on more than one occasion. And what\u2019s even more audacious is that there seems to be no name too big for the musician, having previously come after major figures like Bob Dylan, Prince, David Bowie, Elton John, and more.<\/p>\n His gripe with certain singers usually centres around the fact that he feels their talent doesn\u2019t match up to their popularity. In other cases, like Bowie, it\u2019s a problem with authenticity, and not feeling the same connection to something that everybody else seems to be feeling. As he assessed of the late Starman, \u201cIt\u2019s all pose. It\u2019s all fucking posing. It\u2019s nothing to do with music. He knows it, too. I can\u2019t think of anything else he\u2019s done that would make my hair stand up.\u201d<\/p>\n When it comes to guitarists, suffice it to say that Richards is no less forthcoming. One of the most notable is his comments about Prince, who was once invited to join the Stones on tour when he first started breaking through. The crowd weren\u2019t so welcoming for the newcomer, however, and Richards later expressed that he\u2019d tried to fill boots too big with a title he would never live up to.\u00a0<\/p>\n As he callously put it, \u201cPrince has to find out what it means to be a prince. That\u2019s the trouble with conferring a title on yourself before you\u2019ve proved it. His attitude when he opened for us\u2026 was insulting to our audience. You don\u2019t try to knock off the headline like that when you\u2019re playing a Stones crowd. He\u2019s a prince who thinks he\u2019s a king already. Good luck to him.\u201d<\/p>\n While not so damning about another fellow rock comrade, Jimmy Page, he did seem to aim fire at all members of Led Zeppelin once, softening the blow on Page by calling him a good player but who came across as \u201chollow\u201d. Elsewhere, Richards seemed privy to an unspoken rule among other iconic guitarists, where there\u2019s often hostility for no reason, especially if two are in their prime<\/a> at the exact same time.<\/p>\n As he once recalled about his years-long disdain for Jeff Beck, \u201cGuitar players, for me, are the hardest ones to know, all this professional shit going on. Very unprofessional, really. I mean, Jeff Beck and I, for years, could hardly stand the sight of each other. It\u2019s only been over the last few years that that\u2019s all fallen by the wayside.\u201d<\/p>\n He didn\u2019t share any details on what, specifically, it was that made them turn on each other, but it was likely a heavy dose of pride that stopped them from seeing eye to eye, as is the case in most circles when two high-ranking guitarists butt heads for no apparent reason. Other times, however, it\u2019s boredom that makes Richards grow a strong distaste for a certain band or artist.<\/p>\n This was the case with bands like Creedence Clearwater Revival, or Pink Floyd, who he reportedly once said felt like they\u2019d forgotten that rock was meant to make people feel more alive. Although there are other reports of Richards ruffling the feathers of other respected guitarists, like Steve Vai, there\u2019s a common theme in that if he feels someone isn\u2019t worthy of their success, he\u2019s going to make it known.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ Alamy) Mon 10 November 2025 16:00, UK Keith Richards is one of the most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,23795,128,30646,15747,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-255296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-jimmy-page","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-prince","12":"tag-the-rolling-stones","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}