In his autobiography, ‘Life’, Guitarist Rolling Stones Keith Richards said Charlie Watts “always became a bed that I led to music”.
The bed, Dapper, a reserve of drummer from the British Rock Group, which is the opposite of its Flamboyant and Raucous views, Mick Jagger, has been moved by God’s hands.
Watts died on Tuesday in London, 80 years old.
Earlier this month, Watts had undergone an emergency medical procedure for unspecified conditions, which was the reason he was not mentioned for the stone tour ‘Schedule “in the US.
For millions of stone fans around the world, the man who is universally recognized as the best rockmer of the generation, which defines eternal numbers such as ‘paint, black’, ‘Ruby Tuesday’ and ‘Honky Tonk Women’, and how!
Watts, the son of a truck driver, began as a graphic artist with a London advertising agency (a compulsive artist, he then lent his creativity to the design of direct sets, album jackets and stone merchandise).
He played drums at night, got a neat number, which made it difficult for rollin ‘stones (because the band was then called) to hire it at first.
It was in early 1963 that he finally joined the group with a number of five pounds a week.
And he was there, like a rock, pictures of tranquility when the stones made news not only for albums that broke their record, but also for their surprised lifestyle and internal internal quarrels, then ironically addicted to amphetamine when the rest of the band – His band reformed themselves when they reached the age of 40, and finally, returned to total tranquility, just not interested, when he wrote in his autobiography, “In becoming a pop idol sitting there with girls shouting”.
In addition to art and music, if Watts experienced a passion, it was to breed Arabi-horses, which he did on agriculture 700 hectares in southwest England, where he lived with his wife, Shirley Ann Shepherd, a sculptor he married in 1964 …
Their only child, Seraphina Watts, was born in 1968, and she was the mother of the only late drummer grandson.
