A ROCK LEGEND WHOSE TRUE LOVE WAS JAZZ
Everyone knew Charlie Watts’s heart was always in jazz. Even when he grew his hair long and put on hippie garb while the Rolling Stones were going through their Satanic Majesties period, underneath he was still the cool bebopper who could see through the nonsense surrounding his group and the rampaging egos at its heart.
Wisely, Watts – who died last week aged 80 – never let his true musical allegiance show in his playing with the Stones. When they recruited him from Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated in January 1963, not long after he’d been
