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Charlies always there, but he doesnt want to let everybody know, Richards once said.
Theres very few drummers like that.
Everybody thinks Mick and Keith are the Rolling Stones.
If Charlie wasnt doing what hes doing on drums, that wouldnt be true at all.
Youd find out that Charlie Wattsisthe Stones.
when Watts picked up.
Youre my fucking singer!
The only reason Richards stopped the fight?
Jagger was wearing Keiths wedding jacket.
The best Charlie Watts story, courtesy of Keith Richards:pic.twitter.com/pEycNN9bKx
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Part of it is that I never was a teenager, he once said of his youth.
Id be off in the corner talking about Kierkegaard.
I always took myself too seriously and thought Buddy Holly was a great joke.
While hed later get into rock and roll through the blues, he never lost his love of jazz.
This letter soon appeared in the recently launched magazine.pic.twitter.com/Vb5eC64Vdi
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Richards, the notorious addict, was part of the reason Watts got clean.
I passed out in the studio, and that to me was a blatant lack of professionalism.
He quit everything, cold turkey, after falling down a flight of stairs and breaking his ankle.
It really brought it home to me how far down Id gone, he saidin 2000.
I just stopped everything drinking, smoking, taking drugs, everything, all at once.
I just thought,Enough is enough.
She is an incredible woman, he once said.
The one regret I have of this life is that I was never home enough.
Watts (drummer, The Rolling Stones).
EvenHalsdon Arabians, the horse farm he owned with Shirley, currently has Mr. and Mrs. C.R.
Watts, Owners on its contact page.
So, he passed the time in his hotel rooms by sketching his beds.
I keep a diary of drawings.
Ive drawn every bed Ive slept in on tour since 1967.
Its a fantastic non-book.
I used to take a lot of things that keep you awake, and Id have nothing to do.
So I have all these hotel rooms recorded, he toldRolling Stonein 1996.
He said he got the routine from the dancers at New York Citys famed Cotton Club.
See him in action:
10. charlie watts' style throughout the yearspic.twitter.com/scILwDqY32
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Charlie is a great English eccentric, Richards said.
Cant drive just sits there and looks at it.
Then hell look at it.
Then if it looks good, hell leave.
I cant do them, really,he said in 2012.
I get fed up halfway through attempting to do one, so I dont really do it.
But I love hearing other people doing them, certain other people.
Im more interested in drums as an accompaniment thing.
Ive always been like that.
For me, theres no other way of life.
If tomorrow it packs up, fine.
Cest la vie, as they say in Germany, he quipped in 1973.
I dont like living out of suitcases.
I hate being away from home.
Keith is a great one for saying once youre going, keep going.
The big worry for me is being well enough.
