Playboy Interview: Keith Richards
October, 1989
"If you want to learn an instrument, sleep with it near your head," bluesman Mississippi John Hurt used to say. That is what Keith Richards was doing the night in 1965 when he dreamed and awoke to record (and fell back to sleep to forget) what would become the best-known riff in rock and roll and the immortal words, "I can't get no...satisfaction."Imagine waking to discover you'd written a song. Imagine that song becoming the anthem of your generation. Imagine living from you...