Charlie Watts plays drums on the set of the TV show “Ready Steady Go!” at Television House, London, in 1964.
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Group shot of English rock and roll band The Rolling Stones posed in 1968. Clockwise from top left: Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, Brian Jones, Mick jagger and Keith Richards.
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Charlie Watts from the music group the Rolling Stones shown in 1977.
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The Rolling Stones during their first performance on the continent at Westfalenhalle in Westphalia City, Munster, Germany
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Mick Jagger dances behind Charlie Watts while the Rolling Stones perform in Rotterdam, 1973.
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Keith Richards and Charlie Watts posed at the launch party for the Rolling Stones album ‘Love You Live’ at Trax in New York in September 1977.
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Musicians Joe Cocker and Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones sighted on Dec. 5, 1983 at the Westwood Marquis Hotel in Westwood, California.
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Charlie Watts performs with the Stones at Madison Square Garden in support of their 1981 album “Tattoo You.”
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Drummer Charlie Watts from The Rolling Stones poses with members of the audience on the set of the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus at Intertel TV Studio in Wembley, London on Dec. 11, 1968.
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Charlie Watts spends Christmas with daughter, Seraphina and granddaughter, Charlotte on Madison Avenue in NYC on Dec. 15, 1997.
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Drummer Charlie Watts during rehearsal in New York in May 1978.
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Charlie Watts on stage during the Stones’ ‘Bridges to Babylon’ tour, late 1997 or early 1998.
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Charlie Watts performs at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club with his jazz side project, the Charlie Watts Tentet, in 2001.
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The Rolling Stones appear at a news conference to announce their upcoming tour of the U.S., July 11, 1989.
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The Rolling Stones arrive in Havana, Cuba in 2016. Watts can be seen second from the left.
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Charlie Watts performs with the Stones at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, in 2019.
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Charlie Watts and Shirley Ann Shepherd watch the racing as they attend the King George VI Weekend at Ascot Racecourse on July 23, 2016 in Ascot, England.
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Sheryl Crow and Charlie Watts in NYC in May 2010.
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Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones hugs fellow band member Charlie Watts during a photo call for the media ahead of their Australian tour at Adelaide Oval on October 23, 2014 in Adelaide, Australia
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Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones poses for a portrait on Nov. 14, 2016, in New York. Watts’ publicist, Bernard Doherty, said Watts passed away peacefully in a London hospital surrounded by his family on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021. He was 80.
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