Charlie Watts: Last News

Daryl Hall is set to perform at the 2023 BST Hyde Park festival later this summer, as a special guest headliner Billy Joel.The Hall & Oates singer will join the singer-songwriter onstage for his live appearance at the London Festival, which is set to take place on July 7. Tickets are available now.As previously announced, BLACKPINK will make their UK festival debut headlining their own day at British Summer Time, as well as Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band playing two nights, alongside headline appearances from Guns N’ Roses, Take That and P!nk, supported by Gwen Stefani.Alongside his guest appearance with Joel, Hall is also set to perform at a newly-announced headline show in London.

Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan and Martin Gore have spoken to NME about how the death of Andy Fletcher impacted their dynamic, and said that the loss brought them closer.The two surviving members were speaking as part of a new interview with NME when they opened up about how Andy Fletcher’s death last year impacted the band. Frontman Gahan likened the loss of the keyboardist to that of The Rolling Stones’ late drummer, Charlie Watts.“With The Stones losing Charlie Watts, knowing about their longevity and how it’s fucking hard work to keep a band going for that long, you realise how it’s got to be losing an anchor,” Gahan told NME.

The Rolling Stones are reportedly working with former Beatles members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.

According to Variety, McCartney has recorded bass parts during recording sessions that took place in Los Angeles in recent weeks, and Starr is also slated to play drums.It’s currently unclear whether McCartney and Starr will end up on the same track or which songs will make the final tracklist. The album, produced by 2021 Grammy Producer of the Year Andrew Watt, is getting close to the mixing phase and has “a lot of tracks done,” Mick Jagger shared in 2021.Last month, guitarist Keith Richards shared with fans in an Instagram video that “There’s some new music on its way.”It’s thought that the album will feature recorded parts from the late founding drummer Charlie Watts, who died “peacefully” in Aug.

The former Studio 54 regular completed the look with a pair of oversized gold drop earrings, black leather gloves and a white Lady Dior handbag.Bianca was married to Rolling Stones singer Mick from 1971 to 1978.The former couple met in 1970 before marrying in a Catholic ceremony in Saint-Tropez, France.They share a daughter together, Jade Sheena Jezebel Jagger, who was born October 21 1971.Despite his marriage to Bianca, Mick once claimed that it was better for musicians to “not be with anybody” because “domesticity is death”.His comments were made back in 1974 but were then republished by rock magazine Uncut in a special on drummer Charlie Watts, who died aged 80 last August.He also added that he differed from stars like the late David Bowie, who “spend a long time at home with their old ladies and families”.Mick and Bianca didn’t have the most conventional marriage, and it has been widely reported that both spouses strayed during their seven-year union.In 1973, it was revealed that Bianca had an affair with actor Ryan O'Neal, while Mick was constantly surrounded by women and fangirls.She told People in 1977: “In the first years of our marriage, I played the wife. I was docile and subservient…but groupies weren't an easy thing to get used to.“I have had very few affairs.

The Rolling Stones are reportedly set to release their first new album of music in 18 years next summer. The news follows the death of longtime band drummer Charlie Watts in 2021.The legendary rock band spent this summer performing at numerous venues across Europe in honor of their 60th anniversary as a group. "I’m told Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood teamed up in New York over the past fortnight for recording sessions, alongside a raft of world-class session musicians to complete the initial recordings for their first output of original material in 18 years," a source close to the band told The Sun on Monday.

The Rolling Stones bassist Darryl Jones has been given his own documentary – you can watch the trailer for it below.Titled Darryl Jones: In The Blood, the new film will explore the life and career of the musician, as well examining matters such as race, politics and growing up on the south side of Chicago.Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood all feature in the documentary, as does the late Charlie Watts in one of his last filmed interviews.“In a band you have to get on with everyone, really,” Watts says in the film. “And Darryl is one of those people who – he’s very easy to work with and very pleasant to be around.”“He’s one of the best bass players in the world,” adds Keith Richards.

When the Rolling Stones’ original bassist Bill Wyman retired in 1993, it might have thrown sand into the steel wheels of the world’s preeminent rock n’ roll band. Instead, the group was able somehow to find a replacement worthy of Wyman in the fleet fingers and thumping thumb of Darryl Jones.

Mick Jagger, 79, paid tribute to his late bandmate, long-serving The Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts on the anniversary of his death. He credited his friend's "great sense of humour" in the touching video montage tribute.Mick shared some beautiful clips showing the group over the years to commemorate his late bandmate, who died aged 80, in view of his 2.6 Instagram million followers.Alongside the photos, The Rolling Stones' hit song Till The Next Goodbye played, while he captioned the post: "Thinking of Charlie today."Over the montage, Mick said: "I miss Charlie because he had a great sense of humour and outside of the band we used to hang out quite a lot and have interesting times."We liked sports, we would go to football, we would go to cricket games and we would have other interests apart from just music.

supports HTML5 videoMick Jagger has led tributes for his late Rolling Stones bandmate Charlie Watts to mark the first anniversary of the rocker’s death. Fans are today remembering the late drummer, who died on August 24, 2021 aged 80. A cause of death has not been publicly revealed. Taking a moment to honour his lifelong friend, Jagger, 79, shared a video montage of photos of Watts throughout his life, including their early days in The Rolling Stones. The heartfelt clip is soundtracked to the legendary British rock band’s 1973 song Till The Next Goodbye. Jagger’s voice narrates the clip, with the rocker saying: ‘I miss Charlie because he had a great sense of humour. ‘Outside of the band, you know, we used to hang out quite a lot and have interesting times.

Mick Jagger has paid fresh tribute to his late bandmate Charlie Watts on the first anniversary of his death.Watts died at the age of 80 on August 24, 2021, prompting a huge outpouring of tributes from the music world and beyond. The Rolling Stones have since returned to the stage, with Steve Jordan stepping in as the band’s new touring drummer.The surviving members of the legendary group have opened up about the loss of Watts on numerous occasions onstage and during interviews.

The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has shared that he “hopes” the band will have new material recorded by the end of the year.Speaking to Matt Wilkinson for The Rolling Stones: 60th Anniversary Special podcast on Apple Music 1, Richards said that while he couldn’t say in what formats the band would be releasing their new material, he hopes the band will “have recorded some stuff by the end of the year”.“Anyway, I just make records and then we figure out how they come out, right? That’s what I do,” he said, noting he was unsure if the new songs will be made available on streaming platforms.Richards also discussed his time as a prisoner in Wormwood Scrubs on the podcast, describing his time in the institution as “a weird experience”. “You had to be there,” Richards said, explaining, “I mean, I’ve been in a few other clinks (prisons) over the time, and basically they’re all great once you get out.”Richards previously confirmed that The Rolling Stones’ touring drummer Steve Jordan will be on hand to help the band finish their new album.

READ MORE: Diabetes: The yellow drink that 'significantly' improves blood sugar levels within hoursWatts joined the band in 1963, a year after its first inception. For months after The Rolling Stones started, the band were reportedly desperate to bring Watts in but at first he was reluctant to - on the basis that he needed "regular gigs". But after not long, the legend started attending band rehearsals, marking the start of his epic decades-long journey with the band.

NME."I don’t have all the trappings of that.

Adele, 34, played to thousands of fans this weekend at Hyde Park for the British Summer Time Festival, with The Rolling Stones following suit yesterday.

READ MORE: BST Hyde Park Rolling Stones Sunday July 3: Stage times, maps, infoJagger continued: "There's a lot of camp background to theatre and rock and roll is still part theatre in a way. I had a great make-up artist called Pierre who would dress me up, like, wildly and I'd have to take some of the layers off! And, you know, I loved it.

cancer, which the star battled back in 2004. In a throwback interview Watts recalled the moments after his diagnosis he shared: "It was benign, but [the doctor] said we should take it out. On the slide, it had tiny cancer cells on it.

The Rolling Stones and Watts’ family, has been announced.Charlie’s Good Tonight: The Authorised Biography of Charlie Watts is due to be released on September 15 in the UK and October 11 in the US, according to Rolling Stone. The book features forewords from both Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, plus a prelude from the band’s former manager/producer Andrew Loog Oldham.The longtime Rolling Stones drummer died at the age of 80 last August prompting a huge outpouring of tributes from the music world and beyond.His surviving bandmates reflected on the “huge loss” in September last year before later dedicating their first show of 2021 to Watts.The new biography has been written by author-broadcaster Paul Sexton and includes new interviews with Jagger, Richards, and Ronnie Wood, as well as friends, family and collaborators.“Our dear friend Charlie Watts was not just a fantastic drummer but a wonderful person,” the Rolling Stones said in a statement.

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Rolling Stones had some Hollywood royalty in the crowd at American Express Presents BST Hyde Park as Tom Cruise soaked up the atmosphere.The Top Gun star was seen rocking out at the iconic band’s British Summer Time festival show in London on Sunday night as he joined friends in AEG’s VIP suite.Tom looked to be in great spirits as he flashed a smile and swayed along to the music, and he kept things casual, wearing a navy coat over a shirt with the top two buttons undone and dark jeans.The concert was dedicated to the memory of the Stones’ late drummer Charlie Watts as they played in London for the first time since his death in August 2021.‘It’s lovely to be here. In 1962, we met a drummer from Wembley called Charlie Watts,’ the frontman told the crowd.

Mick Jagger made a glorious return to the stage with The Rolling Stones at British Summer Time (BST) festival in Hyde Park on Saturday. The 78-year-old musician brought the house down as the rock band – which features guitarists Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood – marked 60 years since their first ever show at the Marquee Club in London. Sir Mick donned a vibrant flowery green jacket, while guitarist Ronnie rocked a blue suede jacket and a purple shirt.