There’s a great line in John Hiatt’s 1988 song “Slow Turning,” where the protagonist is in his car trying to listen to the radio but suddenly wheels around: “I’m yelling at the kids in the back ...

Without stretching the comparison too far, Charlie Watts was the Elvis Presley of rock and roll drumming: There was BC (Before Charlie) and after, and he can’t be compared realistically with anyone ...

Keith Richards’ “Life” was merely one interpretation of Keith Richards’ life, I think we can all agree upon that. The Rolling Stones guitarist’s memoir was full of both nasty and dull data about being ...

Watts, who played drums for the Rolling Stones, died on Aug. 24. The Rolling Stones played their first gig without late drummer, Charlie Watts, who died on Aug. 24 at the age of 80, and did so in his ...

Watts died Tuesday at the age of 80. Following the death of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts on Tuesday, the group's three surviving current members -- singer Mick Jagger and guitarists Keith ...

It’s hard to overstate how difficult it was for young British people to obtain records from American jazz- and bluesmen in the 1950s and ’60s. Figures like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bukka White, and even ...

The band saluted Watts on its social media pages with a post featuring a video clip of The Rolling Stones performing their 1972 song “All Down the Line” from the 2008 concert film Shine a Light. As ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts will likely miss the band’s upcoming U.S. tour to allow him to recover from an unspecified medical procedure. A spokesperson for the musician ...