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Charlie Watts 1941-2021
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Charlie Watts at the Forum, Los Angeles, California.
‘I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn’t about adulation.
It was being up there playing.’ - Watts
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Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor at the Kalastajatorppa Hotel in Helskini, Finland, on 2 September 1970
Photograph: Ilpo Musto Rex/Shutterstock
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Watts on Ready, Steady, Go in 1963
Photograph: Dezo Hoffman Rex/Shutterstock
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A stylish Charles Robert Watts aged 2 with his mother, Lillian, and father, Charles, in Piccadilly Circus in 1943.
Charlie was known as Charlie Boy, while his dad was called Charlie
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Charlie Watts 1941-2021
Despite becoming one of the greats of rock’n’roll, the dapper and deadpan Charlie Watts, (...) spent more than 60 years doing his second-favourite job.
Watts applied himself diligently to the task of being the rock-steady heartbeat of the Rolling Stones, but what he always yearned to do was play jazz.
Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis were his musical idols, and his playing was inspired by jazz drummers such as Elvin Jones, Roy Haynes and Philly Joe Jones.
Watts’s career with the Stones ran from the cramped clubs of Britain’s early-1960s blues boom to the international stadium tours that became their metier.
Through it all, he seemed determined to be as self-effacing as anybody could be as a member of perhaps the world’s most high-profile rock band.
Nonetheless, the group fully understood his value to them.
Keith Richards, in particular, often acknowledged how fundamental Watts was to the Stones’ sound, perhaps not least because he was prepared to make space for the churning rhythmic drive of his guitar.
The crisp economy of Watts’s drumming, both swinging and muscular, was remarkable for its absence of frills or fuss, freeing the rest of the band to express themselves around it.
Watts, who trained in graphic design, also contributed a lot to the Stones’ marketing and presentation, which came to the fore as they evolved into a global brand and their performances grew increasingly spectacular.
He created artwork for some early Stones releases and collaborated with Mick Jagger on the design of their elaborate stage sets for such tours as Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle (1989-90), Bridges to Babylon (1997-98), Licks (2002-03) and A Bigger Bang (2005-07).
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