In the early 1990s, Watts released several albums with another group, the Charlie Watts Quintet, including a tribute to Charlie Parker. Charlie and Mick worked closely on the Steel Wheels tour with the late set designer Mark Fisher and lighting director Patrick Woodroffe. Charlie's Good Tonight: The Life, the Times, and the Rolling Stones: The Authorized Biography of Charlie Watts' is out in the U.

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Jazz memorabilia, such as an annotated printed score for George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, will be on sale alongside the books. A pre-publication “proof” copy, inscribed by Waugh to his close friend and wartime commander Robert Laycock: “For Bob, Commander of the Faithful, from Evelyn. Charlie Watts meets the Danish Radio Big Band was recorded live in Copenhagen in 2010 and belatedly released in 2017. So Thomas scribbled out his affectionate inscription — perhaps shortly before he re-gifted the book to a later girlfriend, Emily Homes Coleman, whose name he has written beneath the black cloud of crossings-out. Chuck Leavell’s arrival in the Stones’ touring company had begun with the 1982 European tour and continued through the next two albums, so he was a no-brainer of a choice when the Steel Wheels circus hit the road.

The Jazz Age in the US coincided with the golden years of detective fiction in Britain, and Watts’s collection is rich in English crime novels from the 1920s and 1930s. Through it all, he seemed determined to be as self-effacing as anybody could be as a member of perhaps the world’s most high-profile rock band. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

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You can gauge the rest of the band’s sense of shock when he did, briefly, succumb to drug addiction in the early 80s from the fact that Keith Richards – of all people – felt impelled to intervene and tell Watts to stop it. For Watts, part of the attraction of interwar fiction was surely the design of the books themselves. Sometimes, his playing seemed almost counterintuitive, at odds with everything else that was happening in the song. If you consider Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett and Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington, I think Charlie would have drawn a comparison between the style of those books and the style of the jazz musicians he admired so much – the understated gracefulness in both those cases,” says Sexton. Their first gig was in the legendary London jazz club Ronnie Scott’s, where Watts was a frequent, if undercover, visitor.offered Mick Jagger, after a performance of Chuck Berry’s Little Queenie on the 1970 live album Get Yer Ya-Yas Out! Watts’s personal life is rightly given as much prominence as his career, but it is not drama-filled.

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while both Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood suggested the Rolling Stones simply couldn’t continue without him, a theory that’s presumably now going to be tested: “Charlie’s the engine,” said Wood in 2003.The young Charlie (dubbed “Charlie Boy” by his parents) became fixated on hard bop and cool jazz during the 50s. In 1962, Jones formed the Rolling Stones with singer Jagger, pianist Ian Stewart and guitarists Keith Richards and Dick Taylor.