Exclusive 'Life' Excerpt: Keith Richards on the Debaucherous 1972 Rolling Stones Tour

The 1972 tour was known by other names – the Cocaine and Tequila Sunrise tour or the STP, Stones Touring Party. It was the beginning of the booking of whole hotel floors, with no one else allowed up, so that some of us – like me – could get privacy and security. It was the only way we could have a degree of certainty that when we decided to party, we could control the situation or at least get some warning if there was trouble.

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From the book LIFE by Keith Richards with James Fox. Copyright © 2010 by Mindless Records, LLC. Reprinted by permission of Little, Brown and Company, New York, NY. All rights reserved.