Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, who provided the backbone for the band’s songs for nearly six decades, died Tuesday, according to his publicist.
Watts joined the Rolling Stones alongside the band’s founding members, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Brian Jones, in 1963.
“Everybody thinks Mick and Keith are the Rolling Stones,” Richards said in 1979, according to Rolling Stone.
The Stones began, Watts said, “as white blokes from England playing Black American music” but quickly evolved their own distinctive sound.
Watts was born in Neasden, London, on June 2, 1941, the son of a lorry driver and a housewife.
Rock n roll would not be rock n roll without the rhythm, the style, the VIBE of this incredible musician.
Charlie Watts FILE PHOTO: Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones performs during Desert Trip at the Empire Polo Field on October 14, 2016 in Indio, California.
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