Five songs that would not have rocked as hard without Watts on that drummer’s stool: This is the song that got a preteen me to beg my parents to say OK to drum lessons. Thanks, Charlie.

Charlie Watts’ drums were the foundation of The Rolling ... and never graduated from the basic four-piece drum set, usually Gretsch in basic black, and preferably circa 1957.

More: Charlie Watts was magic on the drums ... Richards posted a photo to his social media account of Watts' Gretsch drum kit, with the sign "Closed – Please Call Again" hanging over it.

The glaring absence is, of course, their former glue of a drummer, Charlie Watts, who died unexpectedly in 2021. As Richards now reveals, Watts personally anointed the band’s new drummer ...

By The Associated Press Shirley Ann Watts, a former art student and prominent breeder of Arabian horses who met drummer Charlie Watts well before he joined the Rolling Stones and with him formed ...

Drummer Charlie Watts, whose adept, powerful skin work propelled the Rolling Stones for more than half a century, died in London on Tuesday morning, according to his spokesperson. No cause of ...

As a historian of drums, Chet Falzerano has been published by Centerstream Publications with four books, Charlie Watts' Favorite Drummers (ISBN 978-1-57424-338-3 ...

Shirley Ann Shepherd Watts, the wife of late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, died on Friday, Dec. 16. She was 84. "Shirley died peacefully on Friday 16th December in Devon after a short ...

Charlie Watts, the unassuming son of a truck driver who gained global fame as the drummer for the Rolling Stones, has died. He was 80. ”It is with immense sadness that we announce the death of ...