![]() So I didn’t discover that whole world of music until later on. ![]() There were no Rolling Stones records, not even a 45. ![]() Almost every one of the American Beatles LPs were in their collection, a couple of Beach Boys, some Dylan – and a few scattered others. My parents were clearly Beatles People, based on the records that I inherited from them. I get a strong sense that pop fans in the 1960s (and remember – I barely made it into the decade) were either Beatles People or Stones People. When a man plays drums with the same band for 58 years, that career is fairly well documented, and there’s little that I can add to that litany except my own perspective. There is nothing that I can add about Watts that you won’t find anywhere else, except for maybe a few personal anecdotes. He had beaten cancer once, but decided that the rigors of the road – and his ongoing battle with lung cancer – superseded the desire to tour with the boys one more time. Just last week Watts decided that he would not be taking part in the Rolling Stones’ tour this fall. Charlie Watts, the drummer for the greatest rock and roll band ever, has died at the age of 80.
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