An official biography of Charlie Watts, authorised by each The Rolling Stones and Watts’ household, has been introduced.
Charlie’s Good Tonight: The Authorised Biography of Charlie Watts is because of be launched on September 15 within the UK and October 11 within the US, based on Rolling Stone. The e-book options forewords from each Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, plus a prelude from the band’s former supervisor/producer Andrew Loog Oldham.
The longtime Rolling Stones drummer died on the age of 80 final August prompting an enormous outpouring of tributes from the music world and past.
His surviving bandmates mirrored on the “enormous loss” in September final yr earlier than later dedicating their first present of 2021 to Watts.
The brand new biography has been written by author-broadcaster Paul Sexton and contains new interviews with Jagger, Richards, and Ronnie Wooden, in addition to mates, household and collaborators.
“Our expensive good friend Charlie Watts was not only a incredible drummer however an exquisite individual,” the Rolling Stones stated in a press release. “He was humorous and beneficiant and a person of nice style and we miss him terribly. It’s nice that his household have approved this official biography by Paul Sexton, who’s been writing and broadcasting about Charlie and the band for a few years.”
So here is my information, with humble because of Charlie’s household, @HarperCollinsUK @mudlarkbooks and naturally the @RollingStones. UK publication is Sept. 15. Pre-order: https://t.co/1PSphcTm1R https://t.co/u42Y1NxbMt
— Paul Sexton (@psexton3) July 1, 2022
Sexton added: “One in every of Charlie’s good mates stated to me that he was a very simple man to like. Having had the pleasure of his firm on so many events over the course of greater than 1 / 4 of a century, that’s a sentiment I echo wholeheartedly. To find a way, with the assistance and encouragement of those that knew him finest, to attract on my time with this distinctive man and his fellow Rolling Stones to put in writing his approved biography, is a thrill and an honor.”
The Stones’ SIXTY UK and European anniversary tour kicked off in Madrid on June 1. At that present, they delivered the first-ever dwell efficiency of their 1966 single ‘Out Of Time’ and delivered a tribute to Watts.
Filling his spot on the SIXTY tour is session drummer Steve Jordan, who the band confirmed in March would document elements for his or her upcoming twenty fourth album.
The Stones postponed two gigs on the tour in Amsterdam, Netherlands and Bern, Switzerland on account of Jagger’s sick well being, resuming in Milan on June 21. The band are on account of play the second of their BST Hyde Park reveals on July 3, with Sam Fender and Courtney Barnett on help.
