NP but a Krupp and a rocket and the abyss for Keith Richards

[Mark Kohut]

On pages 231-232, if you just want to check out the story in a bookstore or 
library,
 in Keith Richards' Life there is a near-death driving experience
that has some resonant stuff.

It is 1967. Keith, a great night-driver, is driving a few to Tangier over one of 
those
mountain roads with hairpin turns above a half-mile of 'forget-about-it'. One of 
the passengers is
a Krupp heir: Arndt Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, and "a degenerate even by my 
standards"--KR

Suddenly two motorcycles are coming at him. He grazes one, they "go bananas"
then there is a truck in the middle of the road. WTF? He has one wheel over the 
abyss,
just manages to save them, they see "a huge missile, a rocket on the 
truck"...."And seconds
later, booom. It went over. We hear this huge crash and explosion." ...."it was 
so fast I don't
think they knew what happened. This was a long, big motherfucker, an articulated 
truck. "

"Just drove on. Foot down. Deal with the hairpins." ..."I was expecting NATO on 
my tail or something, 
at least an immediate military response, helicopters 
and searchlights. The next day we're looking in the papers. Not a mention. 
Falling down a cliff
into an abyss astride a third world rocket would have been a sad end, perhaps 
the only fitting send-off
for the heir to the Krupps armaments fortune."