Watts died Tuesday at the age of 80. Following the death of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts on Tuesday, the group's three surviving current members -- singer Mick Jagger and guitarists Keith ...

Drummer Charlie Watts, whose adept, powerful skin work propelled the Rolling Stones for more than half a century, died in London on Tuesday morning, according to his spokesperson. No cause of death ...

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Keith Richards’ “Life” was merely one interpretation of Keith Richards’ life, I think we can all agree upon that. The Rolling Stones guitarist’s memoir was full of both nasty and dull data about being ...

It’s hard to overstate how difficult it was for young British people to obtain records from American jazz- and bluesmen in the 1950s and ’60s. Figures like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bukka White, and even ...

My book Backbeats: A History of Rock and Roll in 15 Drummers tells a familiar story from an unfamiliar vantage. Moving from Chicago blues to Phil Spector’s early-1960s confections to the British ...