Charlie’s Good Tonight - The Life, the Times, and the Rolling Stones: The Authorized Biography of Charlie Watts - Paul Sexton Audiobook

Written by Paul Sexton
Read by Paul Sexton
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 56 Kbps
Unabridged

“An affectionate portrait, one that recognises Watts as musician, colleague, family man, obsessive collector and immaculate dresser.”
- Sunday Times

“Sexton, a longtime Stones chronicler, tells Watts’s story with warmth and diligence.”
- Observer

“Exhaustively researched…crammed with telling incidental information.”
- Telegraph

Featuring forewords from bandmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, this is the official and fully authorised biography of the world’s most revered and celebrated drummer.

Mid-1962. The newly formed Rolling Stones are on the hunt for a permanent drummer. Their sights are set on Charlie Watts, a jazz musician already well-known within London’s rhythm and blues clubs. He was one of the most decorated musicians in the world when he joined the band a few months after their formation, early in 1963.

Once installed at the drum seat, he didn’t miss a gig, album or tour. He was there throughout the swinging sixties, the early shot at superstardom and the Stones’ world conquest; and throughout the debauchery of the 1970s, typified by 1972’s Exile on Main St., considered one of the great albums of the century.

By the 1980s, Charlie was battling his own demons, but emerged unscathed to enhance his unparalleled reputation even further over the ensuing decades.

For almost 60 years—through all the band bust-ups, bereavements and changes in personnel both on stage and off—Charlie remained the rock at the heart of the Rolling Stones. At the same time, he was the antithesis of the rock-star archetype, an intensely private man who valued his family above all else.

Drawing on new interviews with his family, friends and former bandmates—including Mick Jagger and Keith Richards—Charlie’s Good Tonight is the remarkable life story of Charlie Watts: official, authorised and as it’s never been told before.