The news of Charlie Watts' disappearance on August 24 came as a considerable shock.
The drummer, pillar of the Rolling Stones since 1963, had just celebrated his 80th birthday.
By dint of seeing him hold the sticks within the self-proclaimed "greatest rock band in the world", we had ended up forgetting his age.
The group said it was maintaining the dates for next fall, which had been rescheduled following the 2020 pandemic. Contractually, the Rolling Stones are required to honor their stage commitments as long as Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are in good condition. to play.
Translation: the Rolling Stones, from now on, boil down to these two enemy brothers, who cosign since the mid-1960s the overwhelming majority of the songs of the group.
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Charlie Watts is also the first member of the legendary group to die of old age.
Brian Jones, founder of the group, died at the age of 27 in 1969. In the British weekly
The Week
, Damon Linker
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