As a child, Watts grew up loving jazz, and the drums weren’t his first instrument. He bought a banjo thinking he’d play in a jazz band one day, but when he realized the instrument was hard to ...

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 ...

Charlie Watts died at the age of 80 in 2021 after an ... Together they had one child - a girl named Seraphina, born March 1968. Charlie has one granddaughter named Charlotte but remained private ...

Trying to name the coolest member of the Rolling Stones is like picking a favorite child or sibling. But come on: it was obviously drummer Charlie Watts. In a band that defined glamour and excess ...

Shirley Watts, who was married to Rolling Stones drummer Charlie from 1964 until his death ... as a part-time jazz musician. Their only child, daughter Seraphina, was born in 1968 and the family ...

Drummer Charlie Watts, who has died at 80 ... and his daughter Seraphina had became something of a "wild child", being expelled from the prestigious Millfield public school for smoking cannabis.

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood have paid tribute to their Rolling Stones bandmate Charlie Watts, who died Tuesday at the age of 80. Drummer Watts, who became part of the Stones ...

If the other guys were rolling, somebody had to be the stone. That was the job Charlie Watts saw for himself — and then carried off with incomparable style for more than half a century — as ...

Mr. Watts, who had no taste for the life of a pop idol, was an unflashy but essential presence with the band and brought to it a swinging style. By Gavin Edwards Charlie Watts, whose strong but ...