Keith Richards Biography and Timeline

Birth of Keith Richards

Birth of Keith Richards, later guitarist and songwriter of the Rolling Stones.

Role range: 1943-

Little Boy Blue

Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Dick Taylor form the band Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys, pre-cursor of the Rolling Stones

Rolling Stones, The

Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Dick Taylor form the band Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys, pre-cursor of the Rolling Stones

Rolling Stones, The

Keith Richards and Mick Jagger both attended the Dartford Maypole County Primary School, the two become reacquainted while Richards is attending the Sidcup Art School and Jagger is a student at the London School of Economics

Rolling Stones, The

The Stones have their first gig at the Marquee Club with Jagger, Richards, Jones, Stewart, bass player Dick Taylor (later of The Pretty Things) and drummer Tony Chapman

First Marquee Club Show

Plays guitar at the Rolling Stones's first Marquee Club performance.

Role range: 1943-

Rolling Stones, The

The Rolling Stones lineup settles down to Jagger, Richards, Stewart, Jones, Taylor, and drummer Tony Chapman

It's All Over Now

The Rolling Stones release It's All Over Now, their first UK number one single.

Role range: 1943-

Satisfaction Riff

Develops the guitar riff for Satisfaction during the Stones's American tour period.

Role range: 1943-

Rolling Stones, The

Prompted by Oldham, Jagger and Richards become more prolific songwriters and the US version of 1965s Out of Our Heads contains seven original songs, including the classic "(I Cant Get No) Satisfaction"

Ruby Tuesday

The Rolling Stones release Ruby Tuesday as part of their 1967 single output.

Role range: 1943-

Rolling Stones, The

Jones girlfriend Anita Pallenberg runs off with Richards while Jones is hospitalised, damaging Jones and Richards friendship

Rolling Stones, The

"We Love You" is released, a thank you for loyalty shown by their fans during their drug trials, seen as a barbed attack on their perceived persecutors: the News of the World, the Metropolitan Police.

Rolling Stones, The

A new psychedelic album, which Jagger envisions as the groups equivalent of the Beatles Sgt.

Rolling Stones, The

Jones girlfriend Anita Pallenberg runs off with Richards while Jones is hospitalised, damaging Jones and Richards friendship.

Rolling Stones, The

Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, eventually be released as Their Satanic Majesties Request, during a threat of imprisonment.

Jumpin Jack Flash

The Rolling Stones release Jumpin Jack Flash and return to a harder blues-rock sound.

Role range: 1943-

Rolling Stones, The

With personal relations between Jones and Richards increasingly frayed, the release of the single "Jumpin Jack Flash" and, later the year, the album Beggars Banquet (UK #3; US #5), see a return to the bands blues roots. Aided by up-and-coming producer Jimmy Miller, Jagger and Richards produce some of their most memorable work, including "Sympathy for the Devil" and the distorted acoustic guitar-driven "Street Fighting Man"

Dismissal

Jones is forced out of the band after a late-night visit to his rural home from Jagger, Richards and Charlie Watts to be replaced by twenty year-old jazz-influenced guitarist Mick Taylor, from John Mayalls Bluesbreakers

Rolling Stones, The

At the suggestion of pianist and road manager Ian Stewart, the Stones decide to add a new guitarist and Jones is visited by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts and told the group he formed would continue without him

Rolling Stones, The

Honky Tonk Women is released, coinciding with the death of Jones, and remains the bands last number 1 single in the UK

Death of Keith Richards

Despite Brian Jones sudden death, the Hyde Park concert goes ahead in front of an audience of 200,000 fans, with Jagger reading from Shelleys Adonais and releasing hundreds of (mostly dead) butterflies by way of tribute to the l

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones release Let It Bleed.

Role range: 1943-

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones release Sticky Fingers.

Role range: 1943-

Exile On Main Street

Rolling Stones release the album, "Exile On Main Street"

Rolling Stones, The

Rolling Stones release the album, "Exile On Main Street"

Arrest of Keith Richards

Arrested in Chelsea for possession of cannabis

Rolling Stones, The

Arrested in Chelsea for possession of cannabis

Rolling Stones, The

"Angie" is recorded in Jamaica, it reaches no 2 in the UK charts

Rolling Stones, The

"Goat's Head Soup" is released, reaches no 1 in the UK and US album charts

Rolling Stones, The

Fined 205 pounds for possession of cannabis and possessing an unlicensed firearm

Trial

Fined 205 pounds for possession of cannabis and possessing an unlicensed firearm

Rolling Stones, The

Rolling Stones release a compilation, "Made in the Shade"

Black and Blue

Rolling Stones release the album, "Black and Blue"

Rolling Stones, The

Rolling Stones release the album, "Black and Blue"

Trial

Tried for possession of cocaine

Tattoo You

The Rolling Stones release Tattoo You.

Role range: 1943-