Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies aged 80:
Charlie Watts, the Rolling Stones drummer who propelled the band’s sound for nearly 60 years, has died aged 80.
A statement from his London publicist, Bernard Doherty, to the PA news agency said: “It is with immense sadness that we announce the death of our beloved Charlie Watts.
“He passed away peacefully in a London hospital earlier today surrounded by his family. Charlie was a cherished husband, father and grandfather and also, as a member of the Rolling Stones, one of the greatest drummers of his generation.”
Earlier this month, it was announced that Watts was to miss the band’s forthcoming US tour as he recovered from an unspecified medical procedure.
With his limber stance, keen knowledge of jazz, and unruffled ability to make songs swing even when keeping the strictest time, Watts is regarded as one of the greatest – and most stylish – rock drummers of all time.
Also at CNN, Washington Post, c|net, and, of course, Rolling Stone.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 24 2021, @10:05PM (6 children)
... and somehow Keith Richards is still alive. Must be all the copious amounts of drugs he inhaled, snorted, shot, smoked and took in some form or another.
Somehow I guess it's sad, if you are friend or family or just a megafan of the Rolling Stones. I'm neither. So for me it's 80 year old man that previously had cancer died and that it barely even newsworthy.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Tork on Tuesday August 24 2021, @10:07PM (2 children)
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 24 2021, @10:38PM (1 child)
But then he can't add his snarky comment about someone's death.
Where's the joy in that?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Tork on Tuesday August 24 2021, @10:50PM
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 3, Funny) by Opportunist on Tuesday August 24 2021, @11:37PM (1 child)
Smoked meat simply lasts longer.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 25 2021, @01:24AM
Funny, when someone smokes my meat, I last shorter.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 27 2021, @03:13AM
NOT offtopic asshats.. This is offtopic... bite me.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Hartree on Tuesday August 24 2021, @10:23PM (1 child)
I wish Charlie had stayed alive, if for no other reason, to punch Mick Jagger again. ;)
(Not that I'm so down on Jagger, but a drummer one upping "his" vocalist that way highly amuses me.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 25 2021, @05:04AM
I’m so happy somebody else remembers this story from Keith Richards’ bio.
(Score: 0, Troll) by HammeredGlass on Tuesday August 24 2021, @11:09PM (10 children)
Only boomers downmod my disdain for the hook/refrain/coda/chorus band that has been played down to seven levels of death.
(Score: 5, Funny) by NickM on Tuesday August 24 2021, @11:15PM (2 children)
I a master of typographic, grammatical and miscellaneous errors !
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 24 2021, @11:50PM (1 child)
Ya gotta try though.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 25 2021, @01:50AM
If you try sometime - you'll find - you get what you need.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday August 24 2021, @11:21PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htl3XWUhUOM [youtube.com]
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(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 24 2021, @11:30PM (1 child)
You must be real fun at parties.
Oh right.
Parties are when groups of people get together to socialize and hopefully have fun. You might want to check it out, also people often find mating partners at parties.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 24 2021, @11:53PM
The last time I went to a mating party, someone put something in my drink. I hardly remember... oh, no I do remember. It wasn't all I hoped.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 24 2021, @11:44PM
You can't, always get, ... fuck you limeys.
(Score: 2) by epitaxial on Wednesday August 25 2021, @03:16PM
That would be The Eagles. Even the dude hates them, that should tell you something.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday August 25 2021, @04:23PM (1 child)
I got over my hatred of everything I wasn't already a fan of in highschool.
Most people grow out of the edgelord phase. Why haven't you?
(Score: 2) by HammeredGlass on Thursday August 26 2021, @01:16AM
Because their damn music is still injected into every television show, movie, prom, bar mitzvah, gender reveal party, football, baseball, hockey, etc. It's not as simple as turning the radio dial when another of their songs starts playing for the third time this hour.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday August 24 2021, @11:39PM (6 children)
Yeah, well, maybe he can go up against Gene Krupa now.
https://www.aimm.edu/blog/greatest-drummers-of-all-time [aimm.edu]
https://ledgernote.com/blog/interesting/best-drummers-of-all-time/ [ledgernote.com]
In effect, all today's drummers stand on the shoulders of giants like Gene.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 24 2021, @11:56PM
Yep, it's Gene's all the way down.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 25 2021, @12:01AM (1 child)
First link is pretty silly, Elvin Jones only appears in the comments and Billy Cobham not at all?
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday August 25 2021, @04:27PM
They're both black.
For it to be Rock n' Roll it needs to be stolen FROM the blacks!
(Score: 3, Informative) by captain normal on Wednesday August 25 2021, @01:02AM (2 children)
Like Krupa and Buddy Rich, Watts was mainly a jazz drummer. His beats added a unique rhythm to the Stones' music. Most people don't hear (or just don't pay attention to) the drummers and bass players. I've been amazed at many of his riffs on the Stone's music.
Meanwhile at 81, Richard Starkey just keeps on like the Energizer Bunny.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 25 2021, @01:33AM (1 child)
Wait, Starkey is a drummer?? I don't think he's held a drumstick in 50 years.
(Score: 2) by NateMich on Wednesday August 25 2021, @08:41AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl9188EPdLI [youtube.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday August 25 2021, @01:18AM
solo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsuMuNu1CL8 [youtube.com]
with the rest of the band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNOvgRf0_Ck [youtube.com]
several more hits, take your choice
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=charlie+watts [youtube.com]