Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies at 80 3:22
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Charlie Watts, the legendary drummer for British band The Rolling Stones, has died at the age of 80.
This is what you should know about his career:
Charlie Watts was born on June 2, 1941, in London.
He grew up in the West London suburb of Wembley.
He was passionate about drums from an early age.
According to his mother, they compared a battery to him at the age of 14.
Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies at 80 3:22
His first job was in advertising and, in his spare time, Watts wrote and published a children's book on jazz legend Charlie Parker called "Ode to a Flying Bird."
The preface read: "This story was compiled by a Charlie for a great Charlie."
At the same time, Watts was playing in a band with Alexis Korner, the founding father of the British blues scene, in Ealing, west London, where late Stones member Brian Jones, Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton were also guest musicians. .
In 1962, Jones formed the band The Rolling Stones with singer Jagger, pianist Ian Stewart, and guitarists Keith Richards and Dick Taylor.
Watts turned down the group's first offer for him to join, but eventually relented and played his first concert with them in January 1963.
Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies at 80
In 1964, The Rolling Stones reached number one on the British charts with their version of Bobby Womack's "It's All Over Now."
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The Jagger-Richards songwriting team created their first genuine classic, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," in 1965. The band enjoyed a number of hit singles well into 1966, including "Paint It Black," "19th Nervous Breakdown," "Get off My Cloud," "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby" and "Lady Jane."
The group maintained enormous popularity for decades with classic albums such as "Aftermath" (1966), "Sticky Fingers" (1971) and "Tattoo You" (1981), and with massive stadium tours that took them around the world.