The day in history was December 3rd 1965 when Keith Richards electrocution happens. Steps on a microphone cable and is electrocuted and knocked unconscious during a Rolling Stones concert in Sacramento, California. After a short break, he recovers and is able to continue.
Keith Richards Electrocution
Keith Richards is an English musician, songwriter, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine said Richards had created “rock’s greatest single body of riffs”, and placed him as the “10th greatest guitarist of all time.” Fourteen songs written by Richards and songwriting partner and band vocalist,Mick Jagger, are listed among Rolling Stone Magazine’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time”.
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What made him come round in the first place? This is what confuses me? If he was unconscious, what made him wake up?
Keith Richards, Rolling Stones
Electrocuted December 1965
I was there, as a 6 six yr. old little girl with my Mother, older brother and sister. There I was watching in amazement all the teenage girls standing on their seats screaming with delight, as the band performed when all of a sudden, there was a massive electrical explosion of bright lights and sparks as the screams turned to terror as Keith went down followed by the stage’s curtain.
Everyone was screaming and crying – certain of his death witnessed right before their eyes, after a while the concert resumed.
It was very scary. I remember standing around the back of the ambulance after the concert as he was wheeled out and loaded to be taken off to the hospital to be treated for his burns. Thank goodness he would be okay once his burns healed.
I saw them 10 years later (in 1975, LA, Calif) and remember thinking how they had changed from the mid-sixties. Keith Richards and the Rolling Stones were still very entertaining.
Something’s just always stay so clear in your memory; I remember this as if it is was yesterday. And to think they are still “rocking” today.