Londons’s Sun is reporting that rock n’ roll’s favourite booze hound Keith Richards has given up the grog.

Apparently he’s been inspired to do so after watching the embarrassing – but highly entertaining – public spectacle his band mate Ronnie Wood has put on for the world in his boozing, divorce and frolicking with a girlfriend a third of his age.

Richards has bragged that over the years he’s been to the funerals of several doctors who had warned him to stop. No doubt the distillers of Stolichnaya vodka have put out a profit warning to investors.

Get unlimited access to the coverage that shapes our culture.
to Rolling Stone magazine
to Rolling Stone magazine