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Lauren Laverne here, we're taking our Easter break,

so until we're back on air, we're showcasing a few programs from our archive.

As usual, the music's been shortened for

rights reasons. This week's guest is the musician Keith Richards.

Kurster Young cast him away in 2015. My castaway this week is Keith Richards, if one single living person could be said to personify rock and roll,

then it is surely him cool, rebellious, enduring and in an apparently perpetual state of having

a good time. He's been making music and causing various

degrees of havoc for over half a century and counting. His songwriting, singing and

guitar playing have helped to make the Rolling Stones a stratospherically successful

group. And his early and single-minded dedication to the triumvirate pursuits of sex and

drugs and rock and roll made him a counterculture icon.

No surprise then that as a boy he would go to sleep at night with his arm around his first guitar.

Slightly more startling are the facts that he used to be the patrol leader in the seventh

dartford scouts and a choir boy. So where did it all go right? Well he says I

thought rock and roll was an unassailable outlet for some pure and natural expression of rebellion.

It used to be the one channel you could take without ever having to kiss ass.

So we welcome you to Desert Island Discs, peace.

Thank you very much.

I didn't I expressed it so well.

Very articulate there.

Rebellion, of course, is a natural part of being young but at 71 almost 72 does

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