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Keith Richards hospitalized after falling out of palm tree

Apr 29, 2006 12:31AM PDT
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/29/richards.fall.ap/index.html

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has suffered a mild concussion while vacationing in Fiji and was flown to hospital in New Zealand as a precaution, a spokeswoman for the band said in a brief statement Saturday.

Media reports in Australian and New Zealand said Richards hurt his head when he fell out of a palm tree at an exclusive Fiji resort.


The article doesn't say how or why he was up in a palm tree in the first place, but this is Keith Richards. Use your imagination!!

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This is where you say
Apr 29, 2006 6:20AM PDT

WHAT WAS HE THINKING! (Caps are on purpose).

Diana

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WAS he thinking? LOL!
Apr 29, 2006 7:07AM PDT

We make a lot of fun of him now, but I'm sure that the day he's gone we will miss him a lot! What a great guitar player he's been/is! No such around anymore.

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(NT) (NT) Did he supply his own painkillers?
Apr 29, 2006 6:58AM PDT
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Ouch!
Apr 29, 2006 7:05AM PDT

I really hope he makes it.

He's got the world's most wanted liver AFAIC...

Seriously, I really hope he makes it! Thanks for the update Josh!

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I heard he " wasn't drinking at the time"...
Apr 29, 2006 10:01AM PDT

Like Keith needs to drink to maintain a buzz. I would think by now his body chemistry is supplying a steady stream.

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Pina Colada
Apr 29, 2006 12:30PM PDT

Maybe he needed a coconut for a pina colada.

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(NT) (NT) Of course.............not "while" he was falling
Apr 29, 2006 8:58PM PDT
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i guess he was looking for
Apr 29, 2006 8:50PM PDT

and found, his roots...


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(NT) (NT) Now that's funny ;-)
Apr 29, 2006 9:06PM PDT
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The latest is....
Apr 30, 2006 12:51AM PDT

....that he fell out of the tree and hurt his head, but felt OK enough to get on a jet ski, which he got into another accident.

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(NT) (NT) Keith! Gotta love 'im.
Apr 30, 2006 1:26AM PDT