Keith Richards of the legendary rock band Rolling Stone has bestowed his thumbs up to British soul singer Amy Winehouse — but maintained that she won’t last long clean up her act.
The 64-year-old rock icon admitted his approval for Winehouse to the Mail on Sunday’s weekend magazine, Live.
When questioned which contemporary artist he preferred, Richards responded: “There’s only one person — that girl Amy.” But the ex- heroin devotee — who also “smokes weed all the damn time” — granted some suggestion to Winehouse, whose narcotic troubles have become major tabloid mainstay.
“That girl isn’t going to be around long unless she sorts herself out pretty quick,” Richards forewarned.
Rolling Stone bandmate Mick Jagger also had some recommendation from personal familiarity.
He mentioned that Winehouse’s music would go through a tough moment if her time was spent fighting authorities and the subjects stemming from her drug addictions.
“It completely took over our lives creatively and we couldn’t do this and couldn’t do that,” he added.
Amy Winehouse just 24 years old has been in and out of rehab since mid 2007.
In the midst of a string of called off concerts, she has been apprehended and booked for possession of marijuana, had her picture taken while smoking what appeared to be crack cocaine, and charged — but shortly cleared — of an effort to distort the course of justice.
Her hubby Blake Fielder-Civil, from Camden, north London, has been indicted with trying to pervert the course of justice and imposing severe bodily damage following an supposed assault in June.
He is still detained under custody until April.
