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Charlie's good tonight : the life, the times, and the Rolling Stones : the authorized biography of Charlie Watts / Paul Sexton.

by Sexton, Paul (Writer on music), author.

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New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022]

Watts, Charlie.

Rolling Stones.

Drummers (Musicians) -- England -- Biography.

Rock musicians -- England -- Biography.

9780063276581 (hardcover) :

0063276585 (hardcover) :

xxiii, 344 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

First U.S. edition.

"Charlie Watts was one of the most decorated musicians in the world, having joined the Rolling Stones, a few months after their formation, early in 1963. A student of jazz drumming, he was headhunted by the band after bumping into them regularly in London's rhythm and blues clubs. Once installed at the drum seat, he didn't miss a gig, album or tour in his 60 years in the band. He was there throughout the swinging sixties, the early shot at superstardom and the Stones' world conquest; and throughout the debauchery of the 1970s, typified by 1972's Exile on Main St., considered one of the great albums of the century. By the 1980s, Charlie was battling his own demons, but emerged unscathed to enhance his unparalleled reputation even further over the ensuing decades. Watts went through band bust-ups, bereavements and changes in personnel, managers, guitarists and rhythm sections, but remained the rock at the heart of the Rolling Stones for nearly 60 years--the thoughtful, intellectual but no less compelling counterpoint to the raucousness of his bandmates Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood. And this is his story."-- Publisher.

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