STONES KEITH RICHARDS MOTHER DIES

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Keith Richards' mother has died. Doris Richards peacefully passed away on Saturday night aged 91 after a lengthy battle with cancer. Rolling Stones guitarist Keith, 63, had been keeping a bedside vigil at the clinic in London's Harley Street where she was treated before her death.The band's spokesman Bernard Doherty said: "Doris Richards, aged 91, mother of Rolling Stone Keith Richards, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Saturday 21 April 2007."Family and friends request that their privacy is respected at this time."Doris separated from Keith's father Bert - who passed away in 2002 aged 84 -in 1962. Before her death she had been living with the rocker's stepfather William in Kent. Doris was responsible for buying her son his first guitar on his 15th birthday, setting him on the path to rock 'n' roll success. Her father, Gus Dupree, toured the UK as a jazz musician and gave grandson Keith his earliest guitar lessons. Earlier this month, Keith caused outrage after claiming he had snorted his dead dad's ashes mixed in with a line of cocaine. He said: "I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared, he didn't give a s**t."The wild musician, who is famed for his drug use, has since retracted the statement insisting he only meant it as a joke.

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STONED MICK JAGGER VISITED BY ALIEN'S

Sir Mick Jagger has been visited by aliens.Michael C. Luckman - author of 'Alien Rock: The Rock 'n' Roll Extraterrestrial Connection' - says The Rolling Stones rocker developed an interest in extraterrestrial phenomena after a close encounter of the third kind in the 60s. Luckman told BANG Showbiz: "Mick Jagger has been very involved with the subject of UFOs for many years."In 1968 he went camping in Glastonbury with his then girlfriend, singer Marianne Faithful, and encountered a rare, luminous cigar-shaped mothership."Around the same time Mick had a UFO detector installed at his British estate. The alarm kept on going off whenever he left home, indicating the presence of strong electromagnetic activity in the immediate area."The 63-year-old singer also sighted a UFO over the crowd during The Rolling Stones' infamous 1969 Altamont Concert in California. Mick is not the only member of the band to believe in aliens. Guitarist Keith Richards has also admitted to "seeing a few". Beatles legend John Lennon is another musician Luckman claims has experienced personal contact with beings from another planet. He said: "John Lennon was apparently given a small egg shaped metallic-looking object which he in turn gave to Uri Geller, the psychic."He didn't know what the purpose of it was, but he claimed he had been given it by an extraterrestrial. Interestingly, this all happened less than a year before he was assassinated."

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ROLLING STONES WANT HORSES DRUGGED

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The Rolling Stones have sparked outrage over suggestions 300 horses should be drugged when they play their first Serbian concert.The legendary band are to perform at Belgrade's hippodrome race course in July to a crowd of around 100,000 people. However, fears are mounting for the horses who are stabled just a few yards from the venue and it has been suggested that sedative shots be administered to keep them calm during the raucous show. Jovanka Prelic, who cares for the equine residents, said: "Horses differ,the same as people. Some are more nervous, more skittish. If they get toonervous or start to panic during the concert, they'll get sedatives."The sedative could be diazepam, which was commonly used on horses during the 1999 Nato air strikes. Plans to calm the horses down have sparked fury in Serbia, with animal rights group Orca demanding the concert be moved to another venue. Head of Orca Elvir Burazerovic said: "Research has shown that noise and vibrations are the strongest causes of stress to animals. Surely our big city has enough open spaces where even 150,000 people can fit in. We think the hippodrome should be left to horses."Burazerovic also said if the organisers don't change the venue, the group will write directly to the band to ask them to switch. Burazerovic said: "I believe we will succeed, since such a reputable band will not allow such a stain on its record."

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KEITH RICHARDS DID HIS FATHER !

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Keith Richards has acknowledged consuming a raft of illegal substances in his time, but this may top them all. In comments published today, the 63-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist said he had snorted his father's ashes mixed with cocaine. "The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," Richards was quoted as saying by British music magazine NME. "He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared," he said. "... It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive." Richards' father, Bert, died in 2002, at 84. Richards, one of rock's legendary wild men, told the magazine that his survival was the result of luck, and advised young musicians against trying to emulate him. "I did it because that was the way I did it. Now people think it's a way of life," he was quoted as saying. "I've no pretensions about immortality," he added. "I'm the same as everyone ... just kind of lucky. "I was No. 1 on the 'who's likely to die' list for 10 years. I mean, I was really disappointed when I fell off the list," Richards said.

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L WREN SCOTT ON BOYFRIEND MICK JAGGER

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L'Wren Scott will never have children with Mick Jagger.The celebrity stylist, who has been dating Mick for six years, is happy looking after Mick's children from previous relationships and has no desire to have her own baby. L'Wren told Britain's Style magazine: "I have inherited many children. I feel overwhelmed and lucky because I have all these fantastic children in my life, who all have incredible personalities and fun."L'Wren, who is about to release her third fashion collection 'Under My Skin', remains tight-lipped over engagement rumors. When asked about the enormous diamond ring on her engagement finger, she blushed and said: "It's a very beautiful ring and that's all I'm going to say about it."The 40-year-old former model - who was chosen as the Pretty Polly girl in the iconic David Bailey advert where her 42 inch legs formed the hands of a clock - says her modelling work made her uncomfortable. L'Wren said: "I hated being objectified. I don't think I was very good at it. Because I was so tall, I just had people telling me what was wrong with me all day. It's pretty awful. You have to have a really great backbone and sense of self."

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MICK JAGGER AND KEITH RICHARDS WORDS

Sir Mick Jagger says Keith Richards' boast that he created the stage set for The Rolling Stones' 'A Bigger Bang' world tour is a lie. During a live webcast announcing the band's forthcoming European tour, Mick said: "The set is amazing. It's really quite beautiful."Keith has been claiming he came up with most of the ideas for it."That's a good one! I think he's been telling porky pies (British slang for lies)."The legendary rockers will play more than 20 shows across Europe, kicking off in Belgium in June and finishing in London on August 21. Mick, 63, said: "I never get tired. I'm really looking forward to it."In reference to Keith - who last year had to have brain surgery after falling out of a coconut tree in Fiji causing the band to cancel several dates - Mick joked: "I'll nail him to the nearest room. I don't think he'll be climbing any palm trees."

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ROLLING STONES TOP MONEY MAKERS

The Rolling Stones have topped the US music rich list for the second year running.The veteran rockers, who made $150.6 million in 2006, topped the annual listof music's top money makers compiled by Forbes.com . Like the majority of the biggest music earners, The Stones made most of their money on the road - their 'A Bigger Bang' tour generated $138.5 million. Forbes magazine said: "The Rolling Stones don't sell many discs these days, but they have little trouble luring fans to see them live.''Country music duo Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are second with $132 million.The married couple's 55-city tour grossed $88.8 million and McGraw made $34.3 million in album sales alone. Country trio Rascal Flatts - last year's best selling artist in the US -claimed third spot after selling five million albums and earning $43.6 million touring. Madonna is in fourth place after raking in $96.8 million last year. Her 14-date 'Confessions' tour made $85.9 million. Barbra Streisand claimed fifth place with $95.8 million, despite earning only $4 million from album sales. Streisand's 20 US shows generated $92.5 million, with tickets fetching up to $300. Other big earners included Renée Zellweger's country star ex-husband Kenny Chesney with $90.1 million, and Celine Dion who amassed $85.2 million in 2006 - her Las Vegas shows generated $78.1 million. Bon Jovi, Nickelback and the Dave Matthews Band also made the top 10.The list ranks acts by US tour grosses, album and download sales.

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PETE TOWNSHEND SORRY TO THE STONES

The Who guitarist Pete Townshend has apologised to Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones for saying they are too old to tour.The 61-year-old rocker - who famously penned the line "I hope I die before I get old" in the band's classic hit 'My Generation' - previously claimed musicians from the 60s should call it a day and stop playing live. But Townshend has now taken back his scathing comments, insisting he acts like he's "drunk" when he shouts his mouth off in interviews. He said: "When I do interviews I must imagine being drunk and decide to shout my mouth off for old time's sake. But why do I pick on folks I love?" When he attacked Dylan and The Stones, Townshend insisted he wouldn't pay to go and see any of his contemporaries from the 60s, even his own band, because they are all past it. He said at the time: "I don't think the big bands are going to be able to do this much longer. I don't want to go out and see Bob Dylan or The Stones. I wouldn't pay money to see The Who, not even with new songs. It all makes me sick and I mean that in an ageist way."

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