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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5297/B.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Rolling Stones Drummer Charlie Watts Dies' data-article-id='5851'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='9958'>Charlie Watts of the British music group The Rolling Stones died Tuesday at a hospital in London.</span> <span data-start-time='9958' data-end-time='17667'>Watts played drums for the very successful band for almost sixty years. </span> <span data-start-time='17667' data-end-time='27375'>His publicist, Bernard Doherty, said the musician “passed away peacefully” surrounded by his family.</span> <span data-start-time='27375' data-end-time='37583'>Watts had announced he would not travel with the Stones in 2021 because of an undefined health issue.</span> <span data-start-time='37583' data-end-time='51063'>Watts was respected worldwide for his muscular style of drumming, which he combined with elements of jazz, a favorite music of the artist. </span> <span data-start-time='51063' data-end-time='60625'>He joined the band early in 1963, just a few months following its first public performance.</span> <span data-start-time='60625' data-end-time='76021'>Many of the most famous Stones songs, like Brown Sugar and Start Me Up, begin with a short guitar riff that is quickly joined by Watts' beats on the drums. </span> <span data-start-time='76021' data-end-time='85063'>Bill Wyman, the group’s bass player often described Watts’ skill as “fattening the sound.”</span> <span data-start-time='85063' data-end-time='99563'>The Stones began, Watts said, “as white blokes from England playing Black American music,” but quickly developed an identifiable sound all their own. </span> <span data-start-time='99563' data-end-time='107667'>Watts also did many independent musical projects throughout his years with the band.</span> <span data-start-time='107667' data-end-time='111104'>To the world, he was a rock star. </span> <span data-start-time='111104' data-end-time='119979'>But Watts often said that the experience was tiring, unpleasant, and even frightening. </span> <span data-start-time='119979' data-end-time='127854'>“Girls chasing you down the street, screaming...horrible!... I hated it,” he told The Guardian newspaper. </span> <span data-start-time='127854' data-end-time='139250'>In another media report, he described the drumming life as a “cross between being an athlete and a total nervous wreck.”</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5297/B.jpeg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=17988 data-hint-location='0' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5297/what_is_a_hospital.wav'>What is a hospital?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='an institution providing medical and surgical treatment and nursing care for sick or injured people'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5297/a_large_heavy_motor_vehicle_used_for_transporting_goods_materials_or_troops.wav'><span>a large, heavy motor vehicle used for transporting goods, materials, or troops</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5297/the_seedbearing_part_of_a_plant.wav'><span>the seed-bearing part of a plant</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5297/a_large_planteating_marsupial_with_a_long_powerful_tail_and_strongly_developed_hind_limbs_that_enable_it_to_travel_by_leaping.wav'><span>a large plant-eating marsupial with a long powerful tail and strongly developed hind limbs that enable it to travel by leaping</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5297/an_institution_providing_medical_and_surgical_treatment_and_nursing_care_for_sick_or_injured_people.wav'><span>an institution providing medical and surgical treatment and nursing care for sick or injured people</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=17989 data-hint-location='9958' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5297/what_instrument_did_charlie_watts_play.wav'>What instrument did Charlie Watts play?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='drums'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5297/guitar.wav'><span>guitar</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5297/saxophone.wav'><span>saxophone</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5297/violin.wav'><span>violin</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5297/drums.wav'><span>drums</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=17990 data-hint-location='107667' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5297/to_the_world_he_was_a__blank__star_.wav'>To the world, he was a <span class='blank'>rock</span> star. </div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='rock'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5297/lilac.wav'><span>lilac</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5297/rock.wav'><span>rock</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5297/plate.wav'><span>plate</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5297/search.wav'><span>search</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button class='speak-button'></button></div></div></div>
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