Verdone: “Great pain for Watts, part of my best years”

“Every time a great musician who was part of my youth, of my best years goes away, it is a huge pain for me. It gives me the meaning of life that is flowing fast”. This is what director Carlo Verdone said, commenting with Adnkronos on the death of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts. “I never had the opportunity to know him personally, like others, but I respected him a lot. He passed under the track, like Ringo Starr, they weren’t considered extraordinary drummers, instead they were.” “Like Ringo Starr, Charlie Watts was a ‘clean’ drummer, she had enormous elegance in keeping time. She did it wonderfully, with great class and refinement, never overdoing it, never exaggerating while respecting the compositions of others. – added Verdone- Charlie Watts was a great gentleman, very distinguished, a very good person. A friend of mine told me that he was very loyal to his wife. After the concerts he always asked to be taken to the hotel to be able to call her. He was very much in love, he has always been married to the same woman, he adored her. ” Carlo Verdone, a fine connoisseur of the musical universe, then recalled: “he played the drums by placing the stick horizontal, not vertical, typical of those who love jazz. In fact, Charlie came from a band that played a little jazz, a little ‘of blues, a little rock. Keith Richards used to say of him:’ without Charlie Watts I can’t play. As he gives me time, nobody gives it to me ‘”.