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Keith Richards sang in a church choir as a boy soprano and was praised by his choirmaster for his pure tone. Decades later he became the most famous drug survivor in rock history, a walking contradiction who outlived nearly everyone who tried to keep up with him. The choirboy never fully disappeared — it just got buried under decades of mythology.

This episode traces Richards from his working-class London childhood through his partnership with Mick Jagger, his legendary heroin addiction, and his late-life reinvention as rock's most lovable survivor.

• He was a choirboy who sang at Westminster Abbey for Queen Elizabeth II's coronation
• His heroin addiction lasted over a decade and produced some of rock's most harrowing stories
• He and Mick Jagger have co-written most of the Rolling Stones catalog as the Glimmer Twins
• His autobiography, Life, became one of the best-selling rock memoirs ever published