Keith Richards Busy Working On New Music In Weston: Report

WESTON, CT — Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has been "hunkered down" at his local estate during the coronavirus pandemic, according to Rolling Stone magazine.

The last time the reclusive music icon and his local digs made headlines was when his daughter Alexandra married South African director-cinematographer Jacques Naude there just about a year ago.

Richards and his family have long made their primary home the nearly eight acre Weston spread. The house was built by Richards and his wife Patti Hansen in 1990 and "sits behind imposing gates that swing open onto a long driveway that winds past a Japanese garden with a wooden walkway, a guesthouse, a tennis court, a pool, and what must be the loveliest little greenhouse in all of suburbia," according to Vogue magazine.

The couple also owns an estate in Sussex in the UK, as well as a two-acre ocean-front getaway on the private Parrot Cay islet in the Turks and Caicos Islands, Variety magazine reported.

The legend told Rolling Stone that during the pandemic he and his wife occasionally "do go drift out and stop by a sidewalk café," but they always make sure to wear a mask.

Rolling Stone interviewed Richards and Jagger in conjunction with the reissue of the Stones' seminal 1973 LP "Goats Head Soup." Richards told the magazine he has been busy working on new music in Weston. In late April, the Stones dropped "Living in a Ghost Town," their first original release since 2012.

For more, see the interview in Rolling Stone.