My book Backbeats: A History of Rock and Roll in 15 Drummers tells a familiar story from an unfamiliar vantage. Moving from Chicago blues to Phil Spector’s early-1960s confections to the British ...
Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts passed away last August at the age of 80. Earlier in the month, the band had announced that he would sit out their upcoming tour due to an undisclosed illness, but ...