The Rolling Stone magazine named the The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, as the best rock & roll album of all time, however, The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards says it is "a mishmash of rubbish."
Keith Richards stated, "The Beatles sounded great when they were the Beatles," Keith Richards also said, "But there's not a lot of roots in that music. I think they got carried away. Why not? If you're the Beatles in the Sixties, you just get carried away you forget what it is you wanted to do. You're starting to do Sgt. Pepper. Some people think it's a genius album, but I think it's a mishmash of rubbish, kind of like Satanic Majesties - 'Oh, if you can make a load of shit, so can we.'"
Keith Richards said that despite their wild image in the sixties of The Rolling Stones, the Beatles has been just as randy as they.
The 71 year old Richards is currently getting ready to release his first solo album in over two decades, Crosseyed Heart. Keith Richards recorded the LP (Long Play) together with past collaborators, guitarist Waddy Wachtel and drummer/co-producer Steve Jordan - with guests Aaron Neville, Norah Jones and late Stones saxophonist Bobby Keys. Also, Keith Richards has released the Crosseyed Heart's "Trouble" music video.
Richards talked about the founding bassist of The Rolling Stones - Bill Wyman, got offended by the idea that Keith Richards and the Stones' frontman Mick Jagger had formed the Rolling Stones. "Bill wasn't there when the band was formed," Richards also said, "[Pianist] Ian Stewart formed the band [and] we gravitated around him. Bill was a quirky, funny old fucker, but why he should make some kind of public 'do about it.... I think Mick sent a note saying, because Bill comes from a town called Penge, 'Bill, if a plaque went up in Penge station that said you were the founding member of the Rolling Stones, do you think we'd complain?' But Bill, oh, we love him dearly, and he was a hell of a bass player. We didn't tell him to leave."
