Let’s say it calmly: Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones are history. Your drummer, the best dressed person in rock and roll, is dead.
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Willi Winkler
If Charlie stops, Keith Richards said almost thirty years ago, I’ll quit. Charlie Watts never stopped, even though he wasn’t with the Rolling Stones wanted to stay. He gave them three months, barely a year at best. After all, he had learned something sensible, had his first assignments as a graphic designer, played a little jazz and had a crush on Charlie Parker and Benny Goodman. The band that never wanted to be “a rock’n’roll company” and yet became the greatest of all times and peoples was not enough for him sophisticatedBesides, he didn’t want to sweat.