April 2024 News

After a night out, the band rolled into their hotel room at about 5am. Jagger and Keith Richards were sharing a room, and in a drunken haze, Jagger decided to ring Charlie Watts’s room and yell at him down the phone. “Where’s my fucking drummer?” He said over and over, to not much of a response, before hanging up.

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“I don’t really have that much to say, I mean, if you want to talk about the Rolling Stones, you should talk to Keith, who, I think, embodies the whole Rolling Stones image… “

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In the grand scheme of rock history, drummers tend to come and go throughout every band. If they didn’t write any of the songs and their only job was to just keep the time throughout the song, most fans would give a passive shrug if they found out their favourite band let go of someone behind the skins. In the genre’s golden age, every band member was important, and Charlie Watts knew he was seeing something special when he saw Keith Moon for the first time.

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June 7, 1970: Charlie does the photo shoot for the cover of the Stones’ next live album GET YER YA-YA’S OUT! Although the two photography sessions for the cover featuring Charlie and a donkey are depicted in the documentary film Gimme Shelter, showing Watts and Mick on a section of the M6 motorway adjacent to Bescot Rail Depot in Birmingham,

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With a laugh, he says: "I left in 1991 but they would not believe me." Bill ended his 30-year hiatus to play bass with late drummer Charlie Watts on the Hackney Diamonds album track Live By The Sword.

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Charlie Watts about the Stones’ career (2013)

“We’re very, very fortunate. I’ve always felt that folks have liked this combination of people. Mick, Keith, Brian, and Bill: People turned up to see them. First it was 100 attending, then it was 200, then it’s a lot. 

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Charlie Watts on The Rolling Stones then and now (2000)

“We tour very well now – first class and Rolls-Royces, and that’s the only way to do it. Those first years were valuable times, though, because that’s how you became a working band. And we still are. There’s bigger gaps between work, but we’re still a working band.”

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　ビル・ワイマンはザ・ローリング・ストーンズの最新作『ハックニー・ダイアモンズ』に収録されている“Live By the Sword”に参加しており、ザ・ローリング・ストーンズのレコーディングに参加したのは1991年以来となっている。

　ドラマーのチャーリー・ワッツと共にビル・ワイマンが参加したこの曲についてロニー・ウッドは次のように語っている。

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For Mick and his bandmates Keith Richards, 80, and Ronnie Wood, 76, the start of the tour was a bittersweet moment as they are missing Charlie Watts, the Stones drummer who died, aged 80, from cancer in 2021. Before Sunday’s concert, guitarist Keith said giving up on their music after Charlie’s death was never an option.

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Rolling Stones frontman Sir Mick Jagger says he still struggles to perform with out the band's drummer Charlie Watts behind him after he died in 2021. 

Charlie sadly passed away in August 2021 aged 80, following complications from emergency heart surgery.

The Rolling Stones performed the first night of the US leg of their tour in Texas on Sunday night as they show no signs of slowing down.

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The Rolling Stones have never been known for some of the most complicated drum patterns ever. Although Charlie Watts was not going to get the same kind of accolades that Keith Moon and John Bonham got around the same time, his way of locking in with Keith Richards’s right hand every time the band played gave the group a signature swing that is never going to be reproduced again. 

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The Rolling Stones weren't really The Rolling Stones before Charlie Watts joined the group.

Tony Chapman, Carlo Little and future Kinks man Mick Avory had oh-so brief stints behind the kit, but things really came together for the band when Charlie joined, 

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