Charlie Watts

‘People took so many drugs, they forgot they played on it’ – stars on Exile on Main St, the Rolling Stones’ sprawling masterpiece
Recorded during several hedonistic months in a fabulous Cote d’Azur villa, Exile on Main St is seen as the Stones’ epic, creative peak. As the classic album turns 50, stars tell us how it got their rocks off
Interviews by Dave Simpson
09, May, 2022 @5:00 AM

BBC to mark the Rolling Stones’ 60th anniversary with new documentaries
The series My Life as a Rolling Stone will feature an hour-long film on each member, including the late Charlie Watts
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
31, Mar, 2022 @10:55 AM

Charlie Watts remembered by Dave Green
The Rolling Stones drummer’s childhood friend and fellow musician recalls a home-loving connoisseur and collector of ephemera
Dave Green
11, Dec, 2021 @2:00 PM

Rolling Stones review – a funky, heavy first show without Charlie Watts
The Dome at America’s Center, St Louis, Missouri
The veteran rockers return to the road with an emotional tribute to their longtime drummer and a reinvigorated sense of purpose
The veteran rockers return to the road with an emotional tribute to their longtime drummer and a reinvigorated sense of purpose
Edward Helmore
27, Sep, 2021 @4:23 PM

Charlie Watts showed us how a man could be – cool, modest and always classy | Barbara Ellen
In the ego-riddled world of rock’n’roll, the Rolling Stones drummer was the model of a grown-up
Barbara Ellen
29, Aug, 2021 @7:30 AM

It’s never boring at the barber’s when aliens and cryptocurrency are involved | Tim Adams
One was abducted and never fancied football afterwards, while the latest waxes eloquently about bitcoin and Elon Musk
Tim Adams
28, Aug, 2021 @4:30 PM

‘Not just a drummer – a genre’: Stewart Copeland and Max Weinberg on Charlie Watts
The Police and Bruce Springsteen drummers share memories of their late Rolling Stones counterpart, explaining his technical brilliance, his verve – and his clothes-folding skills
As told to Ben Beaumont-Thomas
26, Aug, 2021 @12:00 PM

Charlie Watts: a rock’n’roll legend whose true love was jazz
He may have backed the world’s most successful rock band, but the late drummer worshipped his jazz heroes through big bands and other projects
Richard Williams
25, Aug, 2021 @11:05 AM

Charlie Watts: the calm, brilliant eye of the Rolling Stones’ rock’n’roll storm
Unruffled amid excess, personality clashes and musical disputes, the Rolling Stones’ exceptional drummer used technique to deepen the meaning and power of their songs
Alexis Petridis
24, Aug, 2021 @7:49 PM

Charlie Watts obituary
Dapper and elegant drummer who was the rock-steady heartbeat of the Rolling Stones
Adam Sweeting
24, Aug, 2021 @7:39 PM

The Rolling Stones: Living in a Ghost Town review – their best new song in years
Referencing the coronavirus crisis over sleazy dub-influenced backing, this is a light, trim and relevant sound for the Stones
Alexis Petridis
23, Apr, 2020 @5:37 PM

The Rolling Stones release Living In a Ghost Town, first original music since 2012
Mick Jagger says new single will ‘resonate through the times we’re living in’ and references coronavirus crisis with the lyric: ‘Life was so beautiful, then we all got locked down’
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
23, Apr, 2020 @4:07 PM
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