KEITH RICHARDS, Legendary Rocker and, Librarian ???

MUSIC NEWS - Keith Richards, the legendary rock n roll veteran, known for his excessive lifestyle, admits in his new autobiography that he's got a secret wish to be a librarian. After decades devoted to the Rolling Stones, oh, and sex, drugs and rock n roll, Mr Richards tells all in his forthcoming autobiography that he's been quietly developing his inner librarian.

He reports he's looked into “professional training” to organize the thousands of books at his homes in Sussex and Connecticut.  This, according to publishing sources familiar with the outline of Richards’s autobiography, which is due out in the fall of 2010, for which he picked up an advance of $7.3M.  The guitarist began to organize his vast collection, which includes many rare histories of early American rock music and WW II, by the standard Dewey Decimal classification system but gave it as “too much hassle.”  Instead, he keeps his favorite tomes close to hand with the remainder languishing on dusty shelves.

His autobiography, Life, to be published in October 2010 by Little, Brown and Company, it's said Richards will reveal how, as a child growing up in the post-war-austerity of 1950s London, he found refuge in books before he discovered music and particularly, the blues. 

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