April 4 (Bloomberg) -- Rolling Stones guitarist Keith
Richards was joking when he said he had mixed his father's ashes
with cocaine and snorted them, the Associated Press reported,
citing a spokesman.
``It was an off-the-cuff remark, a joke, and it is not true.
File under April Fool's joke,'' Bernard Doherty of LD
Communications, which represents the Rolling Stones, said,
according to AP.
In this week's issue of NME magazine, which covers pop
music, the 63-year-old Richards told an interviewer: ``The
strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my
father,'' AP reported. ``"He was cremated and I couldn't resist
grinding him up with a little bit of blow.''
Richards's father, Bert, died five years ago at 84, AP said.