Keith Richards reportedly will not promote the new "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie - after saying he snorted his dead dad's ashes.

Concerned Walt Disney Studio bosses have decided the Rolling Stones guitarist is too unpredictable to promote "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End."

Keith Richards, guitarist with the British musical group The Rolling Stones, on Wednesday backed away from a statement he made a day earlier claiming that he had snorted his father's ashes after mixing them with cocaine. According to a spokesman for the singer, the comment made during an interview with NME magazine was no more than an "April Fool's Joke" and that there was no underlying truth in the statement.

"It was an off-the-cuff remark, a joke, and it is not true," Bernard Doherty of LD Communications, public relations firm representing the artist, told the AP.

Keith Richards snorted his dead dad's ashes.

The Rolling Stones guitarist, who has battled heroin addiction, admits thecremated remains of dad Bert were the strangest thing he has ever sniffed.

Mick Jagger says Keith Richards' boast that he created the stage set for The Rolling Stones' "A Bigger Bang" world tour is a lie.

During a live webcast announcing the band's forthcoming European tour, Mick said: "The set is amazing. It's really quite beautiful. Keith has been claiming he came up with most of the ideas for it. That's a good one! I think he's been telling porky pies (British slang for lies)."