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    Keith Richards on catching COVID: 'I'm impervious … like Donald Trump'

    by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times Nov 02, 2020 5 minutes

    Keith Richards has been in the rock 'n' roll business long enough to recognize hype.

    On the phone recently from a recording studio in New York, the 76-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist recalled the formation of a side project, the X-Pensive Winos, as a "pivotal moment" in his half-century-and-then-some career. Then he interrupted himself, chuckling in his signature pirate-like rasp.

    "Hmm, pivotal? I'm not so sure," he said. "But it was an important part of the development of ... whatever."

    Richards has had time this year to ponder his journey while at home in Connecticut, where he rode out much of quarantine — "just ducking and diving, you know?" — with his wife, Patti Hansen, and their two adult daughters.

    "It's sort of interesting in that it ain't happened to nobody before in the history of this planet," he said of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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