The Rolling Stones drummer would have turned 81 on June 2 Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has previously ...

In most photos of the Rolling Stones, Charlie Watts always looked like the band's accountant. Unlike Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones and Bill Wyman, he didn't seem to fit in nor did it appear ...

“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, ...

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 ...

When Metallica simplified their sound as they were writing their monumental Black Album, drummer Lars Ulrich looked to two drummers in particular for inspiration — AC/DC’s Phil Rudd and the Rolling ...

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 ...

In early August 2021, it was announced that drummer Charlie Watts, for the first time, would not be participating in the Rolling Stones' upcoming tour. "For once my timing has been a little off," ...

Charlie Watts and Mick Jagger take time out during the Rolling Stones Tour of the Americas, 1975. Photo: Christopher Simon Sykes/Getty Images Charlie Watts and Mick Jagger take time out during the ...

I always thought it was a laugh-out-loud joke on rock ‘n’ roll that its best and most widely respected drummer was an abiding, committed and knowledgeable jazz hound. Charlie Watts, who died Tuesday ...