Cigarette eating, ash snorting Keith Richards thinks The Stones are untouchable and he's letting Sweden know. The man with the steel immune system asked that Swedish newspapers apologize to The Rolling Stones and their fans for giving unfavorable reviews of the band's recent show in the country.

A daily paper in Stockholm printed a feisty letter from Richards, which he wrote to combat two negative reviews that appeared in two different Swedish papers.

Here's an excerpt from Richards' letter, thanks to the AP:

There were 56,000 people in Ullevi stadium who bought a ticket to our concert - and experienced a completely different show than the one you 'reviewed' ... How dare you cheapen the experience for them - and for the hundreds of thousands of other people across Sweden who weren't at Ullevi and have only your 'review' to go on.

Write the truth. It was a good show.



Keith also said that this was the first time he'd "risen to the bait of a bad review." Both of the reviews pegged Keith, in particular, for putting on a bad show. Imagine that.

One of the writers responded via the paper's website and said that he has no plans to apologize.

"It is Keith who should apologize. After all it costs around $145 to see a rockstar who can hardly handle the (guitar) riff to 'Brown Sugar' any more," he said.

 

Ah, the epic battle between poor-ass journalist and rich-ass rockstar. In all honesty, I think they should both apologize to me for having to write about their lame squabble.