Paul Sexton - Author of new book on Rolling Stone Drummer Charlie Watts

   Book  - CHARLIE’S GOOD TONIGHT: The Life, the Times, and the Rolling Stones: The Authorized Biography of Charlie Watts.

When Charlie Watts died at 80 in August 2021, nearly every obituary or tribute made reference to the legendary Rolling Stones drummer as the silent one, the backbone of the band, the man who never missed a show. Revered by his fellow musicians and beloved by millions of fans, Watts was the enigma in a band given to excess: stoic, often expressionless, conservatively dressed, quietly munificent. British journalist Paul Sexton—who has covered the band for more than thirty years—has been authorized to write Watts’ biography by his family, who have maintained a low-profile dignity both before and since the drummer’s death. The biography not only draws extensively on Sexton’s huge archive with the Stones, but contains countless fresh interviews, including new reflections by Jagger, Richards and Ronnie Wood; Watts’ daughter Seraphina, sister Linda and granddaughter Charlotte; former bandmate Bill Wyman; engineer and confidant Glyn Johns; and many more.