That background came freighted with meaning: You anchor and serve the beat, keep meticulous time and leave the histrionics to the dilettantes. Watts famously came to rock 'n’ roll from the jazz side of the tracks, a neighborhood he’d run back to time and again throughout his six-decade career. In fact, he was the opposite of two thundering peers, The Who’s Keith Moon and Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham, whose kinetic kit work often overshadowed the songs. This caption was amended on 14 September 2021 an earlier version incorrectly gave the location as. But, of course, Watts was hardly a banger. Charlie Watts aged 2 with his mother, Lillian, and father, Charles, in Trafalgar Square in 1943. The band became a by-word for rock n roll excess but for Watts, playing with. A statement from his London publicist, Bernard Doherty, to the PA Media news. Hiatt’s growled lyric is filled with gleeful respect for the Rolling Stones drummer, who died Tuesday at age 80. Drummer Charlie Watts, who has died at 80, provided the foundation that underpinned the music of the Rolling Stones. Charlie Watts, the Rolling Stones drummer who propelled the band’s sound for nearly 60 years, has died aged 80. 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 seat/Because they’re banging like Charlie Watts.” Watch Video: Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies in London hospital

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