Charles Robert Watts (2 June 1941) was an English musician who achieved international fame as the drummer of the Rolling Stones from 1963 until his death in 2021.
What did Charlie Watts die of?
In March 2022, bandmate Keith Richards revealed that the rock icon had been battling throat cancer since 2004.
Charles Robert Watts was born at University College Hospital in Bloomsbury, London, to Charles Richard Watts, a London, Midland and Scottish Railway lorry driver, and his wife Lillian Charlotte, a factory worker. Linda was his sister.
As a child, Watts lived in Wembley, at 23 Pilgrims Way. Many of Wembley’s houses had been destroyed by Luftwaffe bombs during World War II; Watts and his family lived in a prefab, as did many in the community.
Watts’s neighbour Dave Green, who lived opposite at 22 Pilgrims Way, was a childhood friend, and they remained friends until Watts’s death. Green became a jazz bassist and recalls how, as boys, “We came across 78rpm records. Charlie possessed more records than I… We used to go to Charlie’s bedroom and just get these records out.”
