Featuring forewords from bandmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, this is the official and fully authorised biography of the world's most revered and celebrated drummer. Mid-1962. The newly formed Rolling Stones are on the hunt for a permanent drummer. Their sights are set on Charlie Watts, a jazz musician already well-known within London's rhythm and blues clubs. Fortunately for future Stones fans the world over, they persuade him to take on the job. Once installed at the drum seat, Charlie would not miss a beat for the rest of his life. He was there throughout the swinging sixties as the Stones reached superstardom and for the well-documented debauchery of the 1970s, typified by the iconic album Exile on Main St. Battling his own demons by the eighties, Charlie emerged unscathed, cementing his reputation as the thoughtful, cultured but no less compelling counterpoint to his more raucous bandmates. For almost 60 years — through all the band bust-ups, bereavements and changes in personnel both on stage and off — Charlie remained the rock at the heart of the Rolling Stones. At the same time, he was the antithesis of the rock star archetype, an intensely private man who valued his family above all else. Drawing on new interviews with his family, friends and former bandmates — including Mick Jagger and Keith Richards — Charlie's Good Tonight is the remarkable life story of Charlie Watts — official, authorised and as it's never been told before. • Officially endorsed by The Rolling Stones, with the following new interviews’ Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Seraphina (Charlie's daughter), Charlotte (his granddaughter, both rare interviews), Linda (his sister, first-ever interview about him), Dave Green (his oldest friend and jazz collaborator), Glyn Johns (Stones engineer), Chris Kimsey (Stones producer/engineer), Tony King (longtime publicity aide to Charlie and the Stones), Chuck Leavell (Stones live band MD), Lisa Fischer (former Stones backing vocalist), Jools Holland (friend and musical collaborator), Brian 'Joe' Jones (pre-Stones bandmate), Nettie Baker (daughter of Ginger, Charlie's friend of many decades), Dario Carnera (his tailor), John Carnera (his shoemaker), John DeChristopher (former VP, Zildjian, friend and workmate).
Possible or probable additions: Ronnie Wood, Bernard Doherty (longtime and ongoing Stones publicist), Andrew Loog Oldham (may be persuaded to write something), Don McAuley (Charlie's drum tech) • Authorised by the Charlie Watts family and estate, and will include interviews with those closest to Charlie • Supported by The Rolling Stones commercial team through its social media channels, which includes 3.4m Twitter followers and 3.2m Instagram followers • Will include archival material from The Rolling Stones and the Watts family estate — including unseen photos • Published on the 60th anniversary of the formation of the band and coincides with other high-profile celebrations around the band • Published a year on from the death of Charlie Watts, whose life was celebrated the world over • A wonderful gift for music fans around the world Competition: Life, Ronnie: the Autobiography, Dear Boy: the Life of Keith Moon, Mick Jagger, The Storyteller, Not Dead Yet, Let the Good Times Roll, Hellraiser. Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, Tony Fletcher, Philip Norman, Dave Troglophile Collins, Kenney Jones, Ginger Baker.
