There’s a great line in John Hiatt’s 1988 song “Slow Turning,” where the protagonist is in his car trying to listen to the radio but suddenly wheels around: “I’m yelling at the kids in the back ...

Watts, who played drums for the Rolling Stones, died on Aug. 24. The Rolling Stones played their first gig without late drummer, Charlie Watts, who died on Aug. 24 at the age of 80, and did so in his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over a 58-year career with the Rolling Stones, drummer Charlie Watts helped in pioneering the band’s heavier sound that set them apart early on, and eventually, came to define them. He was a crucial ...

The music really starts you up. The first few notes pull you onto the dance floor. Guitar strings speak to your feet, a drum seems attached to your hips and demands that you move to the song. It makes ...

“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, ...

On the anniversary of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts’ death, Mick Jagger posted a video combining photos of the two over the years, with a brief spoken ...

Ringo Starr and Charlie Watts were drummers with two of the biggest bands in the world, and John Lennon resented that Watts got more attention than Starr. He believed that Watts was a talented drummer ...

It’s hard to overstate how difficult it was for young British people to obtain records from American jazz- and bluesmen in the 1950s and ’60s. Figures like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bukka White, and even ...