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Charlie Watts was quiet, dignified and the soul of the Rolling Stones

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I WAS standing at the back of the stage at one of the Rolling Stones’ concerts at Wembley Stadium in the Nineties. Charlie Watts, perhaps looking for a partner in crime, or maybe because he was just being cheeky, looked back at me and winked.

He wasn’t being disrespectful, wasn’t being rude, he was just being Charlie. Because Charlie always thought that being a rock star in the biggest rock and roll band in the world was slightly ridiculous.

And Charlie, who died on Tuesday aged 80, refused to let success go to his head. In 1986, after 25 years on the road with the band, he told an interviewer, in his inimitable deadpan way, “It’s been five years of work and 20 years of hanging around.” Charlie Watts took everything in his stride, including.

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