All this week on the Forgotten 45 at 3:45 we’re remembering music stars who have passed away in the past year. Today we remember Charlie Watts, the drummer of the Rolling Stones who passed away at the age of 80 last August.
Charlie joined the Stones in 1963 and played with the band for 58 years! In fact the Stones launched their SIXTY tour tonight in Madrid, Spain. The tour celebrates the British rock legends’ 60th anniversary, will feature 14 concerts in 13 European cities, including a pair of concerts in London’s Hyde Park on June 25 and July 3. The tour winds down on July 31 in Stockholm, Sweden.
The Stones will also visit France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria and the Netherlands, and will play their first show in Liverpool, England, in over 50 years.
Stepping in for Charlie will be Steve Jordan on drums, he played on the band’s 2021 No Filter tour of the U.S. after Watts’ death last August.
For today’s Forgotten we go back to 1983 and “Undercover of the Night” a song that reached #9 on the charts.
