Charlie Watts, the drummer who anchored the Rolling Stones throughout their reign as the World’s Greatest Rock & Roll Band, has died at age 80.
Watts always seemed to stand slightly apart from the rest of the Rolling Stones. He was the quiet, dapper center of gravity around which the bad boys orbited. Watts gave the Stones a sense of swing, emphasizing the roll in rock ’n’ roll, an element missing in many of their imitators. Watts came to that swing naturally, falling in love with jazz long before he learned about the blues, and often returning to it whenever he stepped outside of the Rolling Stones.
The son of a London truck driver, Watts was born in the Bloomsbury neighborhood of London on June 2, 1941. As a child in Wembley, Watts became an enthusiastic fan of jazz, collecting 78 rpm records by the likes of Charlie Parker. While attending Kingsbury’s Tylers Croft Secondary Modern School as a teenager, Watts decided to learn to play drums. He bought a banjo, took off its neck and used the banjo head as a snare drum, teaching himself with a pair of wire brushes.
As Watts racked up the hours playing drums for the Jo Jones All Stars, he also attended Harrow Art School, before leaving for a position as a graphic designer at an advertising firm. Watts continued on this split course — design during the day, jazz at night — through his time playing in Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated.
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