One Stormy Day in London Town
Richards was all doom and gloom at this point. One stormy autumn day in 1968, he sat in gallery owner Robert Fraser’s Mayfair apartment, snorting you-know-what and thinking about you-know-who. Next to him was his guitar and surrounding him were Tibetan skulls, tantric art and Moroccan tapestries.
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In the smoke-filled room, Richards started strumming away as the room lit up as lightning flashes covered the London sky. “It was just a terrible f***ing day,” he wrote in his memoir, Life, looking out at the storm. “I got into that mode – looking at all these people… running like hell.”