"We had known each other in grade school, if you can believe it, in the same undistinguished eastern suburb."

I'm sorry, but this is so full of fake.

Fun though, like you say.

...Mick Jagger has ever used the word "fucktard" in his life, I'd be pretty surprised. Odd, too, how he describes the Stones' proceeds using dollars rather than pounds. And the grade school thing.

Nah.

I think it's really erudite, incisive, honest and touching...but I'm sure it's not Mick. For one thing, as one of the comments suggests, there are a number of Americanised spellings and references such as 'grade school' which I presume Mick wouldn't use (he might live in the USA, but he hasn't renounced his Englishness as far as we know). Secondly, as another respondent argues, he is far too sharp and organised to have such a sensitive piece mailed to the wrong Bill Wyman. Thirdly, although the thoughts and sentiments are very eloquent and may well chime in with his own take on things, I don't think Jagger would express them openly; I imagine that he'd just have a wry chuckle and carry on with his very charmed life.

At the top of the piece, in fairly small letters it says, "Dubious and Far-Fetched Ideas." It's definitely fake, but an effective fake. I think it takes down Keith pretty well.

Like this bit: "Anita's 17-year-old boyfriend has accidentally shot himself, in Keith's house—Keith's bedroom—with a gun Keith left lying around. Young Marlon, then perhaps 10, saw Anita, covered in blood, coming down the stairs distraught, and God knows it could have been Marlon playing with the gun. Or: Keith's driven his car off the road (again) with Marlon inside (again). In his book Keith stands back, amazed at the things that just … happen to him." Harsh.

And this: "Would you rather have had a conversation with Warren Beatty, Andy Warhol, and Ahmet Ertegun … or Keith, his drug mule Tony, and the other surly nonverbal members of his merry junkie entourage? Keith actually seems not to understand why I would want my dressing room as far away as possible from that of someone who travels with a loaded gun."

It's too well written, unless it's been ghosted on his behalf. Historically Mick has been like the Queen, maintaining an Easter Island demeanour rather than a right of reply over thorny stories - Keith's book offers nothing that hasn't been said/whispered before, and I can't see Mick breaking his typically stoic silence over re-heated tales..

ever have written to the 'real' Bill Wyman anyway?

at the end of the first page Bill admits it's all his own work - I think these have been added in the last hour or so. Plus a link to at least one site that thinks it's real. Amusing stuff !

the slagging off/owning up of their albums from Some Girls onwards, face it, it's true.

"What if Mick Jagger responded to Keith Richards about his new autobiography?"

And Grade School indeed.

Mick Jagger went to Dartford Grammar for Boys. He was a couple of years below my mum.

Jagger spent a lot of money on the arts centre at the Boys Grammar School. Nice building.

We were all Stones fans when I was at school. I went to Bexley Grammar. Hated it.