Richards was born in Dartford, Kent on 18th December 1943. He met Mick Jagger when he was at primary school. But when they went into secondary schools they lost touch. But one day in 1960 they accidentally met on a train and talked about starting up a group. From 1960-1962 the Rolling Stones were formed. It compromised on Mick Jagger on lead vocal and harmonica Keith on guitar, Bill Wyman on bass, 'Charlie Watts' on drums and 'Brian Jones' on guitar. In 1964 they released their first album "The Rolling Stones". Eventually in 1965 they had their first number 1 hit in the UK with "The Last Time". Throughout 1966-1969 they toured the world with many great hits like "Satisfaction" (1965), "Lets Spend the night together" (1967), "Sympathy for the Devil" (1968) and "Honky tonk woman" (1969). After this, though, Brian Jones committed suicide and Mick Taylor took his place. In fact Mick and Keith were both blamed at the time for Brain's death. But all was not lost. In 1971 they released "Sticky Fingers", which apart from 1968's "Beggars Banquet", was the most popular album they ever made. From this the tunes "Wild Horses" and "Brown Sugar" were released and were very popular all over the world. Throughout the 70s the group made thousands of live performances and endless record sales with hits like "Angie" (1973), "It's Only Rock and Roll" (1974), "Hot Stuff" (1976) and "Respectable" (1978). Keith even released his own single as well. In 1974 Ron Wood had replaced Mick Taylor on guitar and Keith and Ron both played lead guitar. During the decade Keith had a lot of family crisis on his hands but it didn't stop him enjoying himself. In 1980 the group released "Emotional Rescue" which Keith Richards didn't care for. The group didn't even tour to promote it. But in 1981 Tattoo You was released and the group went on a major world tour filling stadiums in the US and arenas in Europe. In 1983 the Stones recorded the album "Undercover" at the Compass Point in Nassau and during this time Mick and Keith were having arguments over rights of the group. In 1987/88 Keith Richards recorded his first solo album "Main Offender" which got him back on the road. But during the tour he only sang a few Stones tunes. At this point it looked as if the Stones had gone forever. But in January 1989 Mick and Keith got together in Barbados and made up their differences and started to write tunes for the album Steel Wheels. After the Stones recorded it they went back on the road. The first time in 7 years. But in 1992 Bill Wyman announced that he was going to leave the group. In 1993 Keith Richards and his band released an album and toured for a while. In 1994 the Stones got back together again and recorded the album "Voodoo Lounge" and toured the world extensively. In 1995 an album of their warm up gig in a pub in Denmark was released. It was an acoustic live album called "Stripped". In 1996 their tour came to an end. But in 1997 they released the album "Bridges to Babylon" and started a 2 years tour. In 1998 a live album "No Security" was released. In 1999 the tour ended and the group hasn't performed together until this day (January 2002).