Billy Joel has paid tribute to The Rolling Stones’ Charlie Watts at his concert in Cincinnati last week (September 10).Watts died last month (August 24) at the age of 80.
The drummer had undergone an undisclosed medical procedure in the weeks before his death, which had caused him to pull out of the Stones’ upcoming US tour.Joel included a partial cover of the band’s 1971 single ‘Brown Sugar’ during his show at Cincinnati’s Great American Ball Park on Friday. “That’s for Charlie,” he told the crowd before slipping into his own track ‘Big Shot’.Watch fan-shot footage of the moment below now.At the same gig, Joel also dedicated a version of ‘New York State Of Mind’ to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack.
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