Keith Richards sings the blues

It was a great day for music when the young Rolling Stones discovered the blues. Keith Richards looks back on a lifelong love affairOn first hearing the bluesIt's very difficult to say - when did I identify the blues as a particular form of music? My mum was playing me jazz - a lot of Billie Holiday, Billy Eckstine, Sarah Vaughan. I mean, it's not your country blues but, as I went on, I realised that I was brought up on a broad basis of blues music without even knowing it, so, in a way, I'm a re...

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