In his own roguish way, legendary Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards
transformed music with his raw, punchy riffs, flamboyant look and swaggering
attitude, and became one of the enduring rock & roll icons of the 1960s.
Growing up amid grey, post-war austerity in Dartford, suburban South London,
Richards first heard his mother's jazz and classical music as a child and
idolised his grandfather Gus, who was a touring musician with big bands. When he
was finally tall enough to reach an old family guitar which hung tantalisingly
on the wall, Gus taught him to play the flamenco...