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Rolling Stones star Keith Richards, 80, cheated death after being mobbed by fans – & his EIGHT other escapes
The legendary rocker once fell out of a coconut tree...and lived to tell the tale
ROLLING Stones hellraiser Keith Richards has cheated the Grim Reaper nine times.
Many of the guitarist’s brushes with death are well documented — but it has now also emerged he was once throttled by fans.
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Ex-bandmate Bill Wyman said girls mobbed their limo in LA in the late 1960s and grabbed Keith’s scarf.
Bass player Bill told Classic Rock mag: “They wouldn’t let go.
"They nearly strangled him.”
Bemused fellow rockers liken Keith, 80, to a cat with nine lives.
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In 1944, the cot he had just been in was blown up in Hitler’s blitz.
Rubber soles on his boots saved him from electrocution in 1965.
In the 1970s, he escaped two house fires and survived strychnine poisoning, saying: “I was comatose but could listen to everyone, and they were like, ‘He’s dead’.”
Later in the ’70s, a binge pal thought him dead from an overdose.
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He punctured a lung in a 1998 fall in his library and had brain surgery after tumbling from a coconut tree in Fiji in 2006.
His 9 escapes
- Cot blown up in The Blitz
- Electrocuted at US gig
- Scarf strangulation
- Survived UK house fire
- Survived LA house fire
- Strychnine Poisoning
- Suspected overdose
- Accident in library (no, really)
- Fell out of coconut tree
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