Keith Richards is pretty much a living skeleton who has never let his rock ‘n roll lifestyle get in the way of staying young – at least at heart. He is only 71, but the rock star’s immortality probably comes from him snorting his dad’s ashes. Yup, you heard right.

Now, he is passing on the family tradition to his daughters Theodora, 30, and Alexandra, 28, inviting them, encouraging them in fact, to snort a line or two of his when he passes to the after world.

I’ll give them a straw.

Delightful.

The news about the unusual ritual first came out in 2007, after Keith was asked what was the strangest things he snorted.

The strangest thing I’ve tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.

He later denied it, only mildly changing the story.

I opened dad’s ashes, and some blew over the table. I asked, should I desecrate them with a broom? So I wet me finger and I shoved a bit of me dad up me f****** ‘ooter. I’m sure he’s still blessing me. The rest I put round a tree.

I wonder, actually, if there’s anything the demi god hasn’t put up his nose.

[source: mirror]