The dapper gentleman drummer of the Rolling Stones since 1963, Watts passed away earlier today at age 80 in London. He was the quietly formidable rhythm-section backbone who injected the band's raw ...

The Rolling Stones seemed to be a magnet for controversy during their heyday. John Lennon expected them to face backlash in the 1980s, but they angered some anxious journalists years before that ...

Charlie Watts successfully drummed with The Rolling Stones for decades. He has received praise for his steady timekeeping and anchoring force in the band’s music. This doesn’t mean that he never faced ...

LOS ANGELES - Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts passed away Tuesday at a London hospital surrounded by his family. He joined the Stones early in 1963 and remained over the next 60 years, ranked ...

Watts, who played drums for the Rolling Stones, died on Aug. 24. The Rolling Stones played their first gig without late drummer, Charlie Watts, who died on Aug. 24 at the age of 80, and did so in his ...

The Rolling Stones drummer would have turned 81 on June 2 Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has previously ...

Keith Richards’ “Life” was merely one interpretation of Keith Richards’ life, I think we can all agree upon that. The Rolling Stones guitarist’s memoir was full of both nasty and dull data about being ...

Drummer Charlie Watts, whose adept, powerful skin work propelled the Rolling Stones for more than half a century, died in London on Tuesday morning, according to his spokesperson. No cause of death ...

Mick Jagger said late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts was always the last to join the bow at the end of shows because of his obsession with neatness. Watts, who died last August at the age of 80, ...

Shirley Watts, wife of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, has died at the age of 82, her family has announced. The pair met in 1961 and were happily married for 57 years until Charlie’s death in ...

The Rolling Stones are paying tribute to their late drummer Charlie Watts on what would have been his 81st birthday. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood each shared a personal tribute to Watts ...