"Watts's first professional engagement came with Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated in 1962. He quickly established himself as one of scene's most respected players." From the ODNB's Ginger Baker entry (you don't need a subscription for this one): "In August 1962 Baker joined Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated, taking over the drum stool from Charlie
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Brian Jones also has an entry, but you need a subscription:
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Written by Patrick Humphries: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Charlie Watts (1941–2021), c. 1965 Photo by Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Watts, Charles Robert (1941–2021), drummer, was born at University College Hospital, London, on 2 June 1941, the only son of Charles Richard Watts (1921–1981), a lorry driver for the London, Midland and Scottish Railw
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It has been deleted from YouTube. Hope you all enjoyed this amazing video!
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I don't want to start a thread about Savile, but this is an interesting story that shows Mick wasn't fooled either: "My second encounter, oddly enough, was in Leeds, backstage at a Rolling Stones concert in July 1982 at Roundhay Park where I chanced to catch him in a rather difficult situation with Mick Jagger who had evidently been called to explain why Savile hadn’t been permi
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Savile at 24:15 We are lucky to be able to see this footage of the Stones at the peak of their powers. The BBC will never show anything with Savile in it again. He fooled a lot of people, but he never fooled me. I always thought he was a creep.
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Thanks - I found both performances of HTW:
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I was fortunate to see Wilko live at the peak of his powers:
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The footage of the first TOTP could have survived, but it's very unlikely. The BBC didn't even keep recordings of the moon landing in 1969.
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Lots of photos here that I've never seen before:
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Thanks -- haven't seen that one before. Mick's letter to Andy Warhol (1969):
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Jagger and Warhol "first met in 1964 at a party for the Rolling Stones in New York to celebrate the release of the band’s debut studio album The Rolling Stones":
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Interesting comment from Devonian on the Times site: "Charlie had it well sussed. Turn up, do the work, take the money and enjoy your life. In his case it was easy because he loved his work and was rather brilliant at it, with the swing of a jazz drummer. I bumped into him twice whilst out and about. At a wedding in the Cotswolds in the early 80s, Charlie and his wife were at the next ta
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‘For Christmas Charlie gave me a Bronze Age sword’ Charlie’s appetite for collecting was voracious. First-edition books, silverware, flatware, records, photographs… His war memorabilia included bullets that were reputedly fired at the Battle of Little Bighorn in the Great Sioux War of 1876. “He was worse than me in some ways,” says Bill. “I collected all the memorabilia and small bits and
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EXCLUSIVE BOOK EXTRACT Charlie Watts: ‘Mick, I’m not your drummer. You’re my vocalist’ A year after the death of the legendary Rolling Stones drummer, Paul Sexton talks to Mick, Keith and Charlie Watts’ family about the man they loved Paul Sexton Friday September 02 2022, 2.00pm BST, The Times From his silver hair to his handmade shoes, Charlie Watts was approximately 68 inches of unde
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Financial Times review: "Not since 1971 have the words “Hello Liverpool!” been uttered in the inimitable mockney drawl of Mick Jagger. That was the last time The Rolling Stones performed in the city of their old rivals, the Other Band — or the “local lads”, as Jagger put it, introducing a one-off cover of The Beatles’ “I Wanna Be Your Man”. True to character, The Stones gave it a bras
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"It’s among their best late-1960s recordings, the band locking into the song’s groove while new boy Mick Taylor adds scorching slide guitar and Ian Stewart boils on piano. Mick Jagger, not a singer known for his emotional eloquence, engages deeply with the lyric’s hurt. Yet The Stones themselves didn’t release “I Don’t Know Why” — it finally appeared in 1975 on Metamorphosis, a grab-bag LP o
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OGWT interview:
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Interesting to hear Mick's financial advice (secondhand) toward the end of this podcast -- the Stones have the best advisors:
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(I've heard that Mick is a Spectator reader so he will probably have seen this) "The moment I fell in love with music I’ve lived in Chelsea for the past 35 years. Since 2002, I’ve photographed everything I find interesting here — churches, streets, door knockers and pub signs, plus two old Chelsea pensioners chatting on a bench with their medal ribbons and rank pinned to thei
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The rivalry between these 60s groups isn't really news. A Daltrey comment from 1982:
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Saw this at the weekend: “Come and sit down!” he says, beckoning me over with a smile that’s immensely charming, but also clearly not to be messed with":
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It's good to know that this poster has been bought by a fan and won't be locked up in a vault somewhere. Reminds me of Warhol's Love You Live artwork. I also like Francis Bacon's Three Studies for a Portrait (Mick Jagger):
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Video of the auction:
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A rare concert poster promoting The Rolling Stones’ run at the Windsor R&B club in the early Sixties sold for £30,000 on October 28. The red and black printed single sheet design for the Ricky Tick R&B club night at the Thames Hotel, Windsor, attracted huge interest before selling at Dawsons in Maidenhead. The price, man
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