But it hasn't stopped him naming Dylan's 1966 release Blonde On Blonde as an album everyone should hear before they die. Richards tells NME: "He showed you that rock'n'roll didn't need to be quite so restricted by that verse-chorus-verse formula. We app pushed each other in those days."

However, he continues: "Bob's a nasty little bugger. I remember him saying to me, 'I could have written Satisfaction, Keith - but you couldn't have written Desolation Row.'