Thread by @dean_frey

#RIP Charlie Watts
My favourite portrait of the great drummer, by Deborah Feingold, 1992

A wonderful portrait of the Stones by Terry Disney, from January 17, 1964
Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts & Bill Wyman
So much style! #RIP Charlie Watts

Here is Charlie Watts in 1963, in a great photograph by Fiona Adams. Great gravitas - not a shot you'd expect from an early Stones concert. #RIP

#RIP Charlie Watts
📷 Peter Webb
resin print, May 1971
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A splash of colour from Terry O'Neill in this 1963 shot of The Rolling Stones outside the Tin Pan Alley Club in London. The photos from this shoot helped Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Brian Jones & Charlie Watts get their first recording contract from Decca.

Robert Altman
Mick Taylor and Charlie Watts during the recording of Let It Bleed. Taylor believed he was being called in to be a session musician at his first studio session with the Rolling Stones. He was a member of the group from 1969-74.
Elektra Studios, October 1969

#RIP Charlie Watts
Love this portrait of The Rolling Stones by Norman Parkinson, for Queen, April 1964
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The Rolling Stones by @GeredMankowitz, 1965
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Charlie Watts was the coolest of the Stones, but I love his smile here #RIP

Lean into it...
The Rolling Stones by Peter Webb, 1970s
Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Mick Taylor
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Charlie Watts was the coolest & the most graceful; completely centered & at his ease here. #RIP

Charlie Watts by Eamonn McCabe, 1992
"I’ve never fulfilled the stereotype of the rockstar. Back in the 70s, Bill Wyman and I decided to grow beards and the effort left us exhausted."
#RIP

Charlie Watts by Stanley Bielecki, June 26, 1964
He hated playing at music festivals, because the quality of the music suffered outdoors. He took his music seriously, but not himself. #RIP

Charlie Watts by Michael Putland
New York, 1978
"He has always collected old things – vintage cars, jazz records, first editions of 20th century literature. In short, he’s always been an ‘eminence grise’ at heart – and that’s why we’ve always loved him."
- @AHHPrendergast

I love when Charlie Watts plays jazz, & I listen for the swing in his rock drumming. #RIP
"The challenge with rock and roll is the regularity of it. My thing is to make it a dance sound; it should swing and bounce."

This is truly fantastic:
The two-year-old Charlie Watts with his mother Lillian and father Charles in Piccadilly Circus in 1943
📷 Linda Roots
Even then he dressed so perfectly. #RIP