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Liam Neeson remembers Keith Richards’ “speed” joke in airport

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NME about the time he met The Rolling Stones in a holding room at Heathrow Airport, as they waited to board the same flight to New York City.Neeson and his wife, late actress Natasha Richardson who died in 2009 after a skiing accident, were due to fly by Concorde but there had been some technical issues with the plane and they were delayed, the Taken star remembered.“Keith Richards was there [with] Mick Jagger,” Neeson added. “And Keith had obviously had a couple of sips of wine, let’s put it that way… And then he came up to me and said: [Neeson mimics Richards’ throaty drawl] ‘It’s funny, everybody wants speed but nobody’s got any!

Hur hur hur.'” Richards, famous for his drug abuses in the 1960s and ’70s, then seemingly recognised Neeson and said, “‘Wait, I know you!’ and then he’d move onto somebody else.

It must have been 20 years ago, maybe more.”Neeson had first encountered the Dartford-born rockers as a child growing up in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, during the 1960s.

Jagger and Richards played local concert hall The Flamingo Ballroom with the Stones in 1964, and Neeson caught a glimpse of them as they arrived at the venue.“I was too young to go [Neeson was 12 years old], but I remember being outside,” he said. “It was the first time I saw barriers on the street where the Flamingo was because the Stones were coming and I remember seeing and actually touching [drummer] Charlie Watts’ elbow as he was going in.

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