Keith Richards' 1962 Letter About Meeting Mick Jagger

Letters Of Note has a wonderful find up today from the depths of Keith Richards' autobiography "Life," a letter an 18-year-old Richards wrote to his aunt describing a cool new friend he made who's "got every Chuck Berry record ever."

"You know I was keen on Chuck Berry and I thought I was the only fan for miles but one mornin' on Dartford Stn. (that's so I don't have to write a long word like station) I was holding one of Chuck's records when a guy I knew at primary school 7-11 yrs y'know came up to me. He's got every record Chuck Berry ever made and all his mates have too, they are all rhythm and blues fans, real R&B I mean (not this Dinah Shore, Brook Benton crap) Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, Chuck, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker all the Chicago bluesmen real lowdown stuff, marvelous. Bo Diddley he's another great.

Anyways the guy on the station, he is called Mick Jagger and all the chicks and the boys meet every Saturday morning in the 'Carousel' some juke-joint well one morning in Jan I was walking past and decided to look him up."

To read about that fateful encounter, head on over to Letters of Note for the rest.

[via Letters of Note]

Comments

[LiberalBuzz]

10:56 PM on 04/15/2012

If you haven't read Kieth's book "LIFE". you are missing a great read. It really is fascinating. Only thing I was hoping for was more stories on the road, but otherwise one of the really best books regarding the band and gotta hand it to Keith, fun read. He and Steven Tyler's book "Does the noise in my head bother you" is another great read although given the choice, I'd go with Keith's.

[alsm9]

11:13 AM on 04/15/2012

"Humble beginnings"... :)

[De Vita Beata]

09:30 AM on 04/13/2012

those boys were so cute!

[James Wills]

09:06 AM on 04/13/2012

And then they took over Brian Jones Band and ripped off Robert Johnson

[headstrong]

09:59 AM on 04/13/2012

Not so - the Stones were always very careful to give songwriting credit where it was due, unlike some other British rockers of the era.

[James Wills]

03:16 PM on 04/13/2012

love in vein

[HopeWFaith]

01:48 AM on 04/13/2012

Oh the 60's.......longing.

[hueylover]

07:30 PM on 04/12/2012

Great stuff - if it's true - from back when people wrote letters. I didn't think he was that literate ;)

[Carmela08]

12:41 AM on 04/14/2012

He is brilliant. Read his biography.

[hueylover]

09:36 AM on 04/14/2012

Definitely will be :)

[SFBayAreaGirl]

06:23 PM on 04/12/2012

OMGGGG!!! That's soooo brilliant! It's so much better that Ron Woods' f'ing paintings.