What was it like drumming for the Rolling Stones? "Work 5 years, 20 years hanging around." | Charlie Watts

478K views · 20K reactions | Don McAulay - Charlie Watts’ drum tech for ten years pays tribute to Charlie for his birthday, placing his drum key where Charlie always would before each show. Happy birthday Charlie, we miss you. | The Rolling Stones | Facebook

97K views · 677 reactions | Charlie Watts, the legendary drummer of the Rolling Stones, has died at 80. In this clip from a 1969 interview with CBC, the ever-humble Watts talks about the Stones keeping their distance from each other during downtime, which may help explain their extraordinary longevity. Read more: https://bit.ly/Charlie_Watts #RollingStones #CharlieWatts | CBC | Facebook

On this day in 1968 the song 'Sympathy For The Devil' was released by the Rolling Stones. Charlie said of the genesis of the track: 'Sympathy' was one of those sorts of songs where we tried everything. The first time I ever heard the song was when Mick was playing it at the front door of the house I lived in in Sussex. It was at dinner, he played it entirely on his own, the sun was going down - it was fantastic. We had a go at loads of different ways of playing it; in the end I just played a jaz