Watts’s authority was such that he interacted with the other players in a way that no other drummer of the era did. Photo: TV Times/Future Publishing via Getty Images (Editor’s Note: The writer is the ...

“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, ...

An extensive jazz catalog from late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts titled Anthology has just been released on June 30. Watts is known for his iconic work with The Rolling Stones, but not many ...

Anyone would have faded into the background in a band that was fronted by the lasciviously preening rock & roll peacock Mick Jagger and the swashbuckling, six-string pirate Keith Richards. But the ...

Due to a strange series of events, David Peck says he owes his career to The Rolling Stones and drummer Charlie Watts, who died Tuesday at age 80. They first met backstage at the memorable Rolling ...

Despite being in one of the biggest, most famous bands of all time, Charlie Watts was never the classic “rock star.” Contrary to the outsize personalities of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the late ...

What distinguished Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts from so many of his rock ‘n’ roll peers? His grace, for one. Unlike, say, the Who’s Keith Moon or Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham, who were known to ...

In a band that defined debauched rock ’n’ roll, he was a quiet, dapper jazz fan. But their unusual chemistry defined the rhythm of the Stones, and of rock. By Ben Sisario On some superficial level, ...