Keith Richards 1965

Keith Richards 1965, hand illustrated here recording tracks for the Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) album at RCA Studios, Hollywood, with his Gibson Hummingbird, December 1965, age 22.

Richards is an English musician, singer, and songwriter, who has achieved international fame as the co-founder, guitarist, secondary vocalist, and co-principal songwriter of the Rolling Stones.
His songwriting partnership with Mick Jagger is one of the most successful in history. Richards is widely considered one of the greatest guitarists of all time.

Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) is the first compilation album by the Rolling Stones, released on March 28, 1966.
The American edition focused on songs from 1964 and 1965 with two new tunes: the recent “19th Nervous Breakdown” and the re-recorded “Time Is on My Side” with the guitar intro.
The British version covered a longer period, from the group’s first single A-side in 1963, “Come On”, to several songs from 1966, including the recent hit “Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?”

The album remained on the chart 99 weeks in the US, where the RIAA certified the album double platinum, signifying over two million copies sold.

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