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Rolling Stones' Richards suffers concussion
2006-04-30
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards is being treated for head injuries in New Zealand after being hurt while on holiday in Fiji. The 62-year-old was airlifted to a private Auckland hospital after falling from a coconut tree. Richards was holidaying with his wife and other members of the Rolling Stones on an island resort in Fiji after the Australasian leg of their latest world tour when the accident occurred on Thursday.

Richards was flown initially to Suva for treatment but later transferred to a private hospital in Auckland for further tests. A spokesman for the band, Bernard Docherty, has confirmed the guitarist suffered concussion and will remain in hospital for a few days. The Rolling Stones are scheduled to kick off the European leg of their Bigger Bang tour at the end of next month.
I was going to ask if he suffered any brain damage, but how could they tell??
Posted by:Fred

#11  An Australian journo called the resort and he fell out of a hammock reaching for a book.

Not that I care.
Posted by: phil_b   2006-04-30 20:45  

#10  "By age 61 or so, one ought not climb trees."

Indeed. This may not have been drug related at all. He may have just started to wander off.
Posted by: Omaviling Glotle8770   2006-04-30 17:37  

#9  By age 61 or so, one ought not climb trees.
Posted by: Unush Angomomble1895   2006-04-30 15:36  

#8  Well, at least he did not get hit by a coconut. That would have ruined the tour. When my dad was in New Gunea, getting ready for the Cape Gloucester operation in Dec 1943, 2 guys in his outfit were killed by falling coconuts.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2006-04-30 15:30  

#7  "Rolling Stones' Richards suffers concussion"

How could they tell?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2006-04-30 13:23  

#6  I'm surprised he noticed. Maybe he sensed an abnormal moment of clarity?
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2006-04-30 12:04  

#5  He's nuts.
Posted by: imoyaro   2006-04-30 11:12  

#4  Why was he climbing a coconut palm?
Posted by: 3dc   2006-04-30 10:42  

#3  Luckily, he had already taken the pain meds.
Posted by: ed   2006-04-30 10:07  

#2  Keef's been out of his tree for forty years now.
Posted by: Grunter   2006-04-30 09:55  

#1  Keith Richards may be the Holy Grail in bio-weapon defense.

Since he's consumed more alcohol, heroin, barbiturates, cocaine, meth, quaaludes, hash, pot, etc than any 100 "normal" dopers combined.. and flourished to boot, the NIH/CDC should rendition him to Dugway.
Posted by: RD   2006-04-30 04:12  

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