The best rhythm section Charlie Watts ever heard: “There was one”

As part of one of the most feared rhythm sections of all time, Charlie Watts' take on the greatest rhythm section of all time ...
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Charlie Watts was magic on the drums. These 5 Rolling Stones songs prove it.

There’s a great line in John Hiatt’s 1988 song “Slow Turning,” where the protagonist is in his car trying to listen to the radio but suddenly wheels around: “I’m yelling at the kids in the back ...
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From the Ealing Jazz Club to the dawning of their first imperial phase, how Charlie Watts turned the Rollin’ Stones into The Rolling Stones

From smoky nights at the Ealing Jazz Club to the dawning of their first imperial phase, how Charlie Watts shaped The Rolling ...
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‘He Marches Right Through the Song’: Steve Albini on How Charlie Watts’s Snare Defined The Rolling Stones

My book Backbeats: A History of Rock and Roll in 15 Drummers tells a familiar story from an unfamiliar vantage. Moving from Chicago blues to Phil Spector’s early-1960s confections to the British ...
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3 of The Rolling Stones Drummer Charlie Watts’ Favorite Drummers of All Time

Drummers aren’t always given the spotlight in a band. However, every so often, there will be such a singular percussive force that they become just as iconic as the band’s frontman. Charlie Watts was ...
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‘He Marches Right Through the Song’: Steve Albini on How Charlie Watts’s Snare Defined The Rolling Stones

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s hard to overstate how difficult it was for young British people to obtain records from American jazz- and bluesmen in the ...