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The Rolling Stones spoke about their last meetings with their late band drummer Charlie Watts. Watts died in August 2021 at the age of 80. So far, nothing has been known about the concrete cause of death. Neither the relatives nor the band made an official explanation.
Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood now told La Times that he was one of the last ones who saw Watts alive in a London hospital. According to him, Charlie was treated in the same room in which he was already in the past year due to cancer. Even then, Wood and Watts jokingly baptized the “Rolling-Stones suite”.
“We saw horse races on TV and just enjoyed the breeze.”
The last encounter with Charlie Watts said Wood: “We looked at horse races on TV. I could see that he was pretty tired and that the whole business was fed up.” He also revealed that Watts had hoped to be able to leave the hospital. But when complications occurred, this wish could no longer be fulfilled. After that, no person was allowed to get to the hospital.
Keith Richards added: “I still try to put it together in my head. I don’t think I can be very sorted in terms of Charlie at the moment.” In the conversation, Frontmann Mick Jagger came to the point that Charlie Watts encouraged the band to continue before his death.
Jagger said: “If you are a band for so long, it is unlikely that you have no changes. Of course this is probably the biggest we ever had. But we felt – and felt – Charlie – we should do this tour. We had already postponed it for a year and Charlie said to me: ‘
On September 20, the Rolling Stones finally played for the first time without their long-time drummer in Foxborough in the US state of Massachusetts. “I think it was the right decision to continue. The band still sounds great on stage and everyone was really reaction at the few big shows that we have made so far,” said Jagger.