Research Catalog

Title

Charlie's good tonight : the life, the times, and the Rolling Stones : the authorized biography of Charlie Watts / Paul Sexton ; [forewords by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards ; prelude by Andrew Loog Oldham].

Author

Sexton, Paul (Writer on music)

Publication

New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]

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Additional Authors

• Jagger, Mick
• Richards, Keith, 1943-
• Oldham, Andrew Loog

Description

xxiii, 344 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits; 24 cm

Summary

"The fully authorized and official biography of legendary Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, one of the world's most revered and celebrated musicians of the last half century. Charlie Watts was one of the most decorated musicians in the world, having joined the Rolling Stones, a few months after their formation, early in 1963. A student of jazz drumming, he was headhunted by the band after bumping into them regularly in London's rhythm and blues clubs. Once installed at the drum seat, he didn't miss a gig, album or tour in his 60 years in the band. 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. Watts went through band bust-ups, bereavements and changes in personnel, managers, guitarists and rhythm sections, but remained the rock at the heart of the Rolling Stones for nearly 60 years--the thoughtful, intellectual but no less compelling counterpoint to the raucousness of his bandmates Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood. And this is his story."--

Alternative Title

Life, the times, and the Rolling Stones : the authorized biography of Charlie Watts

Subject

• Watts, Charlie
• Rolling Stones
• Drummers (Musicians) > Great Britain > Biography
• Rock musicians > Great Britain > Biography
• Drummers (Musicians)
• Rock musicians
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

A prefab childhood and a comrade in jazz -- "Do you think I should join this interval band?" -- Backbeat: Shirley is my darling -- Home thoughts from abroad -- A family man in happy exile -- Backbeat: Sixty-eight inches of style -- Dirty work and dangerous habits -- Around the world and back to the farm -- Backbeat: A man of wealth and taste -- Born with grandpa energy -- Backbeat: A gift for giving -- The long road home -- Forever the Wembley Whammer -- Afterword.

Call Number

JME 22-535

ISBN

• 9780063276581
• 0063276585

OCLC

1345483711

Author

Sexton, Paul (Writer on music), author.

Title

Charlie's good tonight : the life, the times, and the Rolling Stones : the authorized biography of Charlie Watts / Paul Sexton ; [forewords by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards ; prelude by Andrew Loog Oldham].

Publisher

New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]

Edition

First U.S. edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Jagger, Mick, writer of foreword.

Richards, Keith, 1943- writer of foreword.

Oldham, Andrew Loog, contributor.

Research Call Number

JME 22-535