The members of The Rolling Stones reminisced about their last moments with drummer Charlie Watts during an interview with the LA Times.
Watts passed away on August 24th at the age of 80 after a battle with cancer. During their conversation, the group reflected on the loss and their last meeting with him.
Guitarist Ronnie Wood said he was one of the last people to see Watts alive, in a London hospital. Woods said Watts was in the same room he stayed in when he was treated for cancer last year.
“We called the room the Rolling Stones suite,” Wood said. Relating the last time he saw Watts alive, he said, “We watched a horse race on TV and just enjoyed the moment. You could see he was very tired of it all.”
He continued: “He told me he thought he would have already left the hospital, and then they had one or two complications and I couldn’t go in anymore. Nobody else could go in.”
Keith Richards also commented on the loss: “I still haven’t processed what happened.” Mick Jagger commented on how Watts encouraged them to go on tour without him : “We had already postponed the tour for a year and then Charlie told me, ‘You need to go. Our whole team has been out of work for this long, now you need to give them work again.’”
Jagger also commented on the No Filter tour , which began on September 26th in St. Louis. "Fans are holding up signs saying things like 'We miss you, Charlie,' and I miss him too."
