Charlie's Good Tonight: The Authorised Biography of Charlie Watts

New. <p>Featuring forewords from bandmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, this is the <strong>official and fully authorised</strong> biography of the world’s most revered and celebrated drummer.</p> <p> <strong>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. Fortunately for future Stones fans the world over, they persuade him to take on the job. </strong> </p> <p>Once installed at the drum seat, Charlie would not miss a beat for the rest of his life. He was there throughout the swinging sixties as the Stones reached superstardom and for the well-documented debauchery of the 1970s, typified by the iconic album <em>Exile on Main St</em>. Battling his own demons by the eighties, Charlie emerged unscathed, cementing his reputation as the thoughtful, cultured but no less compelling counterpoint to his more raucous bandmates.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Drawing on new interviews with his family, friends and former bandmates – including <strong>Mick Jagger</strong> and <strong>Keith Richards</strong> – <em>Charlie’s Good Tonight</em> is the remarkable life story of <strong>Charlie Watts</strong>: official, authorised and as it’s never been told before.</p>