Classic Desert Island Discs - Charlie Watts

Desert Island Discs

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🗓️ 29 August 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Sue Lawley talks to the Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, who died at the age of 80 on 24 August 2021. The programme was first broadcast in 2001.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.7	Lauren LeVernier, we're taking our summer break, so until we're back on air we're showcasing
0:09.4	a few programs from our archive, as usual the music's been shortened for right reasons.
0:14.8	This week's guest is the Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, whose death at the age of 80
0:19.7	was announced this week.
0:21.3	Sue Lolley cast him away in 2001.
0:40.3	My castaway this week is a drummer.
0:42.3	60 years old this year he's been at the centre of British rock music since 35 years ago he
0:47.5	joined a band called the Rolling Stones.
0:50.4	He never expected the fame and fortune it brought him and he remains to this day a little
0:55.0	apart from it all.
0:56.6	He's no hell-raiser, his contribution has been the essential qualities of professionalism,
1:02.0	consistency and loyalty.
1:04.2	The Stones were just another band he remembers.
1:06.4	I thought they'd last three months, then a year, then three years, and then I stopped
1:11.0	counting.
1:12.0	He is Charlie Watts.
1:13.8	Your head sank when I said 60 this year Charlie, do you hate the thought?
1:18.0	No, I'm quite comfortable at age really, but it lately it's sort of been a number isn't
1:25.0	it, to continue?
1:26.0	It's 60 is a big one I suppose isn't it?
1:28.3	People used to worry about 40 but...
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