The Stones guitarist and founding band member, who turns 75 next week, told Rolling Stone magazine, "I just got fed up with it."
He said he still has a glass of wine or a beer on occasion, but that he’s given up the harder stuff.
“It was time to quit,” Richards said. “Just like all the other stuff.”
“I don’t notice any difference really – except for I don’t drink. I wasn’t feeling [right]. I’ve done it. I didn’t want that anymore,” he said.
Keith Richards tells us he's severely cut back on drinking. "I got fed up with it." https://t.co/wv65AapHPN pic.twitter.com/pdgntgAtne
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Richards, who survived a cancer scare in 2010, talked with Rolling Stone ahead of the band's North American leg of the "No Filter" tour, which kicks off next year in Miami.
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