Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones drummer and band’s rhythmic mainstay, dies at 80
A onetime artwork pupil who was steeped in jazz and blues music, Mr. Watts joined the Stones in 1963, when the band was simply getting underway in London. He supplied a dependable, booming sound on drums that gave a bullet-like punch to such early classics as “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” “Brown Sugar” and “Honky Tonk Ladies.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/native/obituaries/charlie-watts-dead/2021/08/24/4791a972-04fa-11ec-8c3f-3526f81b233b_story.html | Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones drummer and band’s rhythmic mainstay, dies at 80
