Charlie's Good Tonight: The Authorised Biography of Charlie Watts

With forewords from his bandmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, this is the official and fully authorised biography of the world's most revered and celebrated drummer.

In mid-1962, the newly formed Rolling Stones were searching for a permanent drummer. Their attention turned to Charlie Watts, a jazz musician already well-known within London's rhythm and blues clubs. Fortunately for future Stones fans worldwide, they convinced him to take the role. Once ensconced behind the drum kit, Charlie would not miss a beat for the rest of his life.

He was there throughout the swinging sixties as the Stones achieved superstardom, and through the well-documented excesses of the 1970s, epitomised by the iconic album Exile on Main St. Battling his own challenges in the eighties, Charlie emerged unscathed, cementing his reputation as the thoughtful, cultured, yet no less compelling counterpoint to his more boisterous bandmates.

For almost 60 years — through all the band bust-ups, bereavements, and changes in personnel both on stage and off — Charlie remained the unwavering core of the Rolling Stones. Simultaneously, he was the antithesis of the typical rock-star archetype, an intensely private man who prioritised his family above all else.

Drawing on fresh interviews with his family, friends, and former bandmates, including Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Charlie's Good Tonight presents the remarkable life story of Charlie Watts: official, authorised, and as it has never been told before.