Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has shared his memories of the night that his hero Chuck Berry punched him in the face.
Richards tells the story in a new interview with The Guardian, in which he also salutes the timeless nature of Chuck Berry's music. The Rolling Stones' very first single, released in June 1963, was a cover of Berry's Come On, and their forthcoming album, Foreign Tongues, concludes with a cover of Berry's Beautiful Delilah.
"I loved his naturalness when he was playing, the way he moved – his whole body became part of the guitar," Richards tells The Guardian's Alexis Petridis. "He made me focus on what was possible for me, at the time, which made my mother shell out for an electric guitar. I just felt a natural affinity for him, even though he was a cussed bugger."
