Of all the things Keith Richards has ingested in his life, it turns out his father is NOT on that extensive and long list. We held back on republishing claims from NME that Keith had snorted his father's ashes until the furor had calmed down, thinking that the claim's proximity to April Fool's Day was a bit too "fishy." It appears that we were right not to jump on this particular bandwagon, though just about every mainstream press outlet appears to have been sucked into this apparent joke.
“It was an off-the-cuff remark, a joke, and it is not true. File under April Fool’s joke,� said Bernard Doherty of LD Communications, which represents the Rolling Stones.