Keith tells Jagger: I’m sorry for saying you should have the snip
ROLLING Stone guitarist Keith Richards apologised last night to bandmate Mick Jagger for calling him a ‘randy old bastard’ who needed a vasectomy so he could stop having children.
The pair have had a chequered relationship for many years, and Richards did not hide the tension between them in an interview published in the Wall Street Journal yesterday.
‘Mick’s a randy old bastard,’ he said about Jagger becoming a father for the eighth time just over a year ago when he was 73. ‘It’s time for the snip – you can’t be a father at that age. Those poor kids!’
Richards, 74, insisted in the same interview that he regretted none of the offensive things he had said about Jagger in his autobiography, Life. In it, he called Jagger ‘unbearable’ and mocked the lothario singer’s ‘tiny todger’.
He told the US newspaper: ‘Mick and I would have spats anyway, no matter what I said in the book, and I left a lot out.’ He added: ‘Mick and I live off of this fire between us.’
However, such bravado appeared to have disappeared within hours of the interview being published.
He said on Twitter: ‘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.’
Jagger had his latest child, Deveraux Octavian Basil Jagger, in December 2016 with his American ballerina girlfriend, Melanie Hamrick, 30.
His seven other children, aged 18 to 47, were born to four mothers – the actress Marsha Hunt, model Luciana Morad and his two ex-wives, Bianca Jagger and Jerry Hall.
Richards’ anxiety not to offend his bandmate too much may be because they are soon to go back on the road together.
Earlier this week, the Stones announced the European leg of their No Filter tour, which includes their first UK dates for five years.
‘I have apologised to him in person’