An extensive jazz catalog from late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts titled Anthology has just been released on June 30. Watts is known for his iconic work with The Rolling Stones, but not many ...
Watts’s authority was such that he interacted with the other players in a way that no other drummer of the era did. Photo: TV Times/Future Publishing via Getty Images (Editor’s Note: The writer is the ...
“When he died my mind was blown,” said Wood. “We have the spirit of Charlie playing with us.” Closing the band’s fourth-part Epix docuseries, My Life as a Rolling Stone, the final installment, ...
Due to a strange series of events, David Peck says he owes his career to The Rolling Stones and drummer Charlie Watts, who died Tuesday at age 80. They first met backstage at the memorable Rolling ...
In early August 2021, it was announced that drummer Charlie Watts, for the first time, would not be participating in the Rolling Stones' upcoming tour. "For once my timing has been a little off," ...
Anyone would have faded into the background in a band that was fronted by the lasciviously preening rock & roll peacock Mick Jagger and the swashbuckling, six-string pirate Keith Richards. But the ...
This is tough to admit now, but any good appreciation is grounded in honesty, so here goes: I used to be one of those drummers who thought the Rolling Stones' Charlie Watts was overrated. Proof of my ...
Despite being in one of the biggest, most famous bands of all time, Charlie Watts was never the classic “rock star.” Contrary to the outsize personalities of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the late ...
What distinguished Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts from so many of his rock ‘n’ roll peers? His grace, for one. Unlike, say, the Who’s Keith Moon or Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham, who were known to ...
The Rolling Stones members Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood in 2014 (Photo by Morne de Klerk/Getty Images) Music legends and music lovers alike are paying their respects to ...
In a band that defined debauched rock ’n’ roll, he was a quiet, dapper jazz fan. But their unusual chemistry defined the rhythm of the Stones, and of rock. By Ben Sisario On some superficial level, ...