1988: Richards on Talk Is Cheap and the Stones
Keith Richards’s 1988 press around his first solo album Talk Is Cheap catches him between Stones loyalty and a need to work while Mick Jagger pursued his own projects. He talks with dry humor about independence, band chemistry that both holds and frays a legendary group, and the grind of staying a working guitarist. The voice is gravelly, the answers concrete: songs, sessions, and the cost of myth. It remains a useful snapshot of Richards as band leader of the X-Pensive Winos, not only as Stones folklore.
