Keith Richards
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It’s been 30 years since Keith Richards’ Main Offender came out. To mark the anniversary, the guitarist’s third solo album will be re-released on March 18, 2022, as a special deluxe box set and in other formats via BMG. It also includes the previously unreleased concert “Winos Live in London ’92”. This is a live performance recorded at London’s legendary Town & Country Club in Kentish Town.
In addition, the box set will contain an 88-page book with previously unseen photos, essays and illustrations of handwritten lyrics. Rounding it all out are reprints of promo and tour material from Keith’s archive.
“As a musician, silence is your canvas”
Richards received musical support for the production of the album from the band X-Pensive Winos. The re-release has been re-mastered under the supervision of original producer and X-Pensive Winos member Steve Jordan. The track listing is also well known:
“Main Offender” track listing
- 999
- Wicked As It Seems
- Eileen
- Words Of Wonder
- Yap Yap
- body talks
- Hate It When You Leave
- Runnin’ Too Deep
- Will But You Won’t
- demon
“Winos Live In London ’92′” track listing
- Take It So Hard
- 999
- Wicked As It Seems
- How I Wish
- Gimme Shelter
- Hate It When You Leave
- Before They Make Me Run
- Eileen
- Will But You Won’t
- body talks
- happy
- whip it up
Meanwhile, Richards celebrated another milestone last year. On October 17, 2021, it had been exactly sixty years to the day since Richards and Mick Jagger first met and spoke. The two musicians not only celebrated this as a couple, but together with their fans at a performance at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.
By chance, Jagger and Richards had struck up a conversation on a platform at Dartford station. Soon the musical spark had jumped over and a year later they founded the Rolling Stones together. Today, a commemorative plaque at the train station commemorates this brief encounter that wrote music history.