A British company who compress dead people’s cremated ashes into vinyl records for £3,000 reported ‘phenomenal interest’ in their services this week, in an interview with Discovery.com.
Writing on their company website, Andvinyly offer a ‘basic package’ of 30 12 inch discs on which the person preparing for their death can record spoken word messages on top of music (either pre-recorded loops or bespoke music’).
"We offer you the chance to press your ashes in a vinyl recordings your loved ones will cherish for generations,” Andvinyly promise.
“Record a personal message, your last will and testament, your own soundtrack or simply press your ashes to hear your pops and crackles for the minimal approach."
Discovery’s article appeared just days before Rolling Stone guitarist Keith Richards confessed he had snorted some of his Dad’s ashes up his nose, some three years after NME first quoted him as telling them ‘’he was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.’
Following NME’s report, Richards claimed he’d scattered his Dad’s ashes around an oak tree and insisted NME’s story had been ‘lost in translation’ though in a serialization of his upcoming book this week explained what really happened.
“I opened my dad's ashes, and some of them blew out over the table. I looked at them and what do I do? Do I desecrate them with a dustbin and broom?” he recalled.
"So I wet me finger and I shoved a bit of me dad up me fucking 'ooter (nose). I'm sure he's still blessing me. The rest I put round an oak tree." (News of the World)
In another excerpt from the book published in the Daily Express he also chatted about his cocaine and heroin addictions and discussed how he survived when many of his peers died prematurely. The notoriously hardcore rocker has been arrested at least ten times during his career, most notoriously in Toronto in 1977, when police raided his hotel room and discovered five grams of heroin and 22 grams of cocaine.
“It’s not only the high quality of drugs I had that I attribute my survival to. I was very meticulous about how much I took. I’d never put more in to get a little higher,” the Express quoted him as explaining this week.
“It’s the greed involved that never really affected me. People think once they’ve got this high, if they take some more they’re going to get a little higher. There’s no such thing. Especially with cocaine . . .” (Daily Express: http://bit.ly/dtjw1I )
http://www.nndb.com/people/574/000022508/ (Keith Richards: "I never had a problem with drugs . . . only with cops.")
http://www.andvinyly.com/ (Funerals: "We have an experienced team of event organisers who will organise your send-off and play your record there. Speak to your guests, crack some jokes, embarrass someone or just make them dance. Prices start from £10,000 . . .’)
