FED: Rolling Stone falls from tree

AAP General News (Australia)
04-29-2006
FED: Rolling Stone falls from tree

Rolling Stones guitarist KEITH RICHARDS has been airlifted to a New Zealand hospital
with a serious head injury .. after falling out of a palm tree while on holiday in Fiji.

Fairfax newspapers report the 62-year-old .. and fellow Stones member RON WOOD .. were
trying to climb the tree at an exclusive holiday resort last week when he slipped and
fell.

RICHARDS was reportedly flown from the Wakaya Club to Nausori Airport near Suva ..

where he was treated at a private hospital.

On Thursday afternoon he was transferred to Auckland's Ascot Hospital.

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