official and fully authorisedFeaturing forewords from bandmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, this is the biography of the worldâs most revered and celebrated drummer.
Mid-1962. The newly formed Rolling Stones are on the hunt for a permanent drummer. Their sights are set on Charlie Watts, a jazz musician already well-known within Londonâs rhythm and blues clubs. Fortunately for future Stones fans the world over, they persuade him to take on the job.
Once installed at the drum seat, Charlie would not miss a beat for the rest of his life. He was there throughout the swinging sixties as the Stones reached superstardom and for the well-documented debauchery of the 1970s, typified by the iconic album . Battling his own demons by the eighties, Charlie emerged unscathed, cementing his reputation as the thoughtful, cultured but no less compelling counterpoint to his more raucous bandmates.Exile on Main St
For almost 60 years â through all the band bust-ups, bereavements and changes in personnel both on stage and off â Charlie remained the rock at the heart of the Rolling Stones. At the same time, he was the antithesis of the rock-star archetype, an intensely private man who valued his family above all else.
Mick JaggerKeith RichardsCharlie WattsDrawing on new interviews with his family, friends and former bandmates â including and â is the remarkable life story of : official, authorised and as itâs never been told before.Charlieâs Good Tonight