It’s remarkable how many people just take celeb bios on their own terms. Particularly considering Richards’ big selling point is his alleged no-holds-barred honesty, there’s a lot of obvious questions raised in Life that aren’t answered. It’s odd to me virtually all the other reviewers didn’t notice them.
Beyond that, leaving aside the various horrors Richards didn’t talk about, you can also turn the question around.
Here’s what’s being presented. In that context, it’s fun to think, Well, what are they thinking about? Virtually everything we read about them, remember, they’ve decided they want us to think about. That’s how modern pop-culture marketing works.
Bill Wyman on his “Mick Jagger” response to Keith Richards. At this point either you’ve read every word of all of this, or you tuned out long ago because it’s a lot of words about an old rock band you don’t care about.
But! If you’re in the latter group, but you care about media and the way it works now, you ought to at least read the parts where Wyman talks about the way the Web received his story. Also, the story about “a big paper in New York.”
