From smoky nights at the Ealing Jazz Club to the dawning of their first imperial phase, how Charlie Watts shaped The Rolling ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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, ...
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 ...
Without stretching the comparison too far, Charlie Watts was the Elvis Presley of rock and roll drumming: There was BC (Before Charlie) and after, and he can’t be compared realistically with anyone ...