In August, The Rolling Stones’ drummer Charlie Watts died peacefully surrounded by his friends and family. He was 80 years old. Since his death shocked the world, fans, fellow celebrities, and ...

While recording “The Authority Song” with John Mellencamp in the early 1980s, drummer Kenny Aronoff said he drew from Charlie Watts’ signature technique of raising his right drumstick in the air and ...

When Charlie Watts visited the New Orleans Jazz Museum's "Drumsville" exhibit in July 2019, it wasn't as a dilettante. A dedicated jazz student, collector and practitioner, Watts was already familiar ...

Charlie Watts successfully drummed with The Rolling Stones for decades. He has received praise for his steady timekeeping and anchoring force in the band’s music. This doesn’t mean that he never faced ...

If there’s anything we’ve learned from Charlie Watts, it’s that the drummer is the most important member of the band. Period. The heartbeat of The World’s Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band no longer is ...

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, who died on Tuesday, played with a deceptively simple style that took some fans time to appreciate. This is tough to admit now, but any good appreciation is ...

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 ...

Drummer Charlie Watts, whose adept, powerful skin work propelled the Rolling Stones for more than half a century, died in London on Tuesday morning, according to his spokesperson. No cause of death ...

For 58 years, Charlie Watts manned the drum kit behind Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the unflappable bedrock of the Rolling Stones sound. Compared to his British Invasion contemporaries, he wasn’t a ...

Laying down hot grooves on big hits, while chilling in the background, happily ceding spotlights and stardom to others. Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts has been described that way for nearly 60 ...