BERLIN — Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has offered troubled singer Amy Winehouse some free advice on kicking the drug habit.

"She should get her act together," the former junkie said during a round-table interview at the Berlin International Film Festival on Friday to promote Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones documentary "Shine a Light."

The often-addled rocker paused, then added: "Apart from that, I have got nothing to say to the b****."

Winehouse, 24, entered a London rehab clinic last month in hopes of kicking a destructive habit that has overshadowed her promising career.

Stones frontman Mick Jagger, himself no stranger to pharmaceutical experimentation and resulting legal troubles, compared the drug problems of the present generation of Brit rock stars, such as Winehouse and Pete Doherty, to his early days when drugs became an integral part of the pop music scene.

"When we were experimenting with drugs, little was known about the effects," Jagger said. "In our time there were no rehab centers like today. Anyway, I did not know about them."

Sounding a bit like the 64-year-old grandfather that he is, the fitness fanatic said he couldn't understand how the younger generation, knowing the dangers of drug use, could still be users.



Coming from Keith

funkpill said:

"Dag...That's 3 cold"



.....Here, take this with ya' ....
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wtf?

Cold but understood. drug addicts don't need to be coddled. coddling is nothing but an attempt to save someone who doesn't want to be saved. It takes a drug addict like Keith to know exactly the deal.

Why do people put microphones in front of Keith's mouth anymore?

She should take his advice, or she could turn out looking like him at her age.

heybaby said:

Yeah, I can dig that.

That kettle is blacker than a muthafucka ain't it?

Ya know, when it said "throws stones", I thought.....nevermind

Yeah, when Keith is calling you effed up it's time to do something

heybaby said:

Agreed.

That's funny

Calling her a bitch.

To me, its ALWAYS easiest to speak from hindsight. This man only got it together some few years ago.

Why is he throwing rocks not that she's IN rehab?

I'm all for recovering addicts offering advice as long as it makes sense.

Poor Mick; he has put up with this motherfucker since the early 60's

Keith is cool, but he has said some nasty things about people in the past. He hated Prince, but Ronnie and Eric Clapton set him straight. He also said some negative things about Princess Diana too that were uncalled for.

Fitness fanatic

who drinks & smokes constantly?

RipHer2Shreds said:

if this anti-drug poster doesn't wake a person up then I don't know what does.

He said that with love, y'all!

Keith wouldn't be speaking so uncompassionate if he was still alive.

RipHer2Shreds said:

RipHer2Shreds said:

dear god, tell me thats not real

Oh, Keith.



God bless Mick for (barely) having the patience to put up with this old bugger all these years. That's true love, y'all.

guitarslinger44 said:

Unbelievable. How can he call her a bitch and defend himself about not knowing about the effects. He could see the effects all around him, right? Hendrix, Joplin...

dag said:

...in the mirror,....

dag said:

Hendrix?

LEGAL drugs caused his death and his biggest problem was ethanol.

Every time he ingested ethanol he became violent. Drugs did not have this effect on him.

so keith called her a bitch, so what. If I was Amy I'd probably be quite honored

that's the reason Mick's a knight and Keith's a rock n' roller

isn't strange that anyone would richards about drug rehab etc? he never cleaned up so much as he switched from heroin to booze. i happen to love keith but WTF!

and who's that dumb ass who asked him?