Rolling Stones drummer, who died Tuesday at age 80, once got so perturbed with frontman Mick Jagger in the ’80s that he punched him square in the face.Following news of his passing, bereaved music figures and fans swarmed social media to reminisce about the late and great rock icon’s life and legacy.
But beyond his many accomplishments in rock ‘n’ roll, the infamously shy Watts slugging the singer in the kisser is a wild story Stones fans can never forget.This forgotten slice of rock history occurred in 1984 in Amsterdam, when the legendary UK group’s tensions were at an all-time high, the Grunge reported, many years after Watts joined the band in 1963.In his book “Under Their Thumb,” Rolling Stones fanzine editor Bill German described how.
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