There is a meme of Keith Richards bouncing around at the moment, a photograph of Keith, axe in hand, bending down to attend to a little boy. The caption? “Keith Richards teaching Willie Nelson to play guitar.” The inference is the same as it’s been since the mid-seventies: Keith was born before all of us, will outlive all of us, and will no doubt still be around when the earth has finally had enough of us.
He’s nearly there, because today Keith is 80.
