Without Charlie Watts, the Rolling Stones might have crumbled. hitsville remembers the legendary drummer
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
At 5 a.m., Jagger decides he needs to talk to Charlie Watts, the band’s drummer. He calls Watts’s hotel room.“Izzat my drummer, then?” Mick bawled. “Where’s my fucking drummer? Get yer arse down here right away!” …Charlie got up, shaved, put on a fresh white shirt and a tailored Savile Row double-breasted suit, tied his tie, slipped on bench-crafted shoes from Lobb in St. James.
But that world was being roiled, some thought, by a new strain of adopted American music, which was developing a scruffy but loyal band of followers in London. They were obsessed with records made by Black musicians from America, songs that came to England on heavy vinyl LPs obtained by mail order, dark and pumping visions from a culture and society thousands of years away played by Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf and Elmore James.
Watts soon developed an almost mystical connection to Richards, who, it quickly transpired, was a signal talent himself. “The whole heart and soul of this band is Keith and Charlie,” Richards wrote in his autobiography. “I mean, that’s apparent to anybody who’s breathing, or has a musical bone in his body. That is where the engine room is.
At the same time, there was something to Watts’s relationship with Jagger. All of the Stones were in awe of James Brown, whom they got to watch up close, and both Jagger and Watts appreciated how Brown interacted with his drummers. Watts said he always watched Jagger onstage, trying to anticipate his moves. The flamboyance that both Jagger and Richards used to impressive effect in the Stones was given free rein by the foundation Watts gave them.
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