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The story of the Rolling Stone’s heartbeat: Charlie Watts revealed.

Charlie's Good Tonight

The Authorised Biography of Charlie Watts

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  • Paperback

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    31 January 2024

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Summary

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.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780008546373
ISBN-10:0008546371
Author:Paul Sexton
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:Mudlark
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:31 January 2024
Weight:270g
Dimensions:24mm x 129mm x 198mm
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Charlie's Good Tonight by Paul Sexton - ISBN: 9780008546373
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Critics Review

‘An affectionate portrait, one that recognises Watts as musician, colleague, family man, obsessive collector and immaculate dresser.’ Sunday Times

‘Sexton, a longtime Stones chronicler, tells Watts’s story with warmth and diligence’ Observer

‘Exhaustively researched… crammed with telling incidental information’ Telegraph

‘The book that every Stones fan will want to read this Christmas, largely because, like its subject, it’s sharp, straightforward and blessed with significant dry wit … an essential purchase’ Classic Rock

‘A book as gentle, fascinating and companionable as the man himself’ Mojo

‘Favours substance over flash, presenting an affectionate account of a devoted family man and friend, a particularly British type of eccentric, who just happened to play drums for the Rolling Stones.’ Irish Independent

About The Author

Paul Sexton

Paul Sexton is an author, journalist and broadcaster who has covered The Rolling Stones, and interviewed all of the band extensively, for some 30 years. He started writing about music for the weekly pop paper Record Mirror while still a teenager in 1977, and his work has appeared in all of the quality UK press, most notably The Sunday Times and The Times, as well as in Billboard magazine and countless documentaries and shows for BBC Radio 2. His book Prince: A Portrait of the Artist in Memories and Memorabilia was published in 2021. He lives in south London.

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