Rolling Stones’ Charlie Watts Drops Out of 2021 Tour Following Medical Procedure

Rolling Stones’ Charlie Watts Drops Out of 2021 Tour Following Medical Procedure

“For once my timing has been a little off. I am working hard to get fully fit but I have today accepted on the advice of the experts that this will take a while.”
Charlie Watts performing with the Rolling Stones in 2019
Charlie Watts performing with the Rolling Stones in 2019 (Joe Amon/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

When the Rolling Stones head out on their No Filter tour across the U.S. this fall, drummer Charlie Watts will not be joining them. A spokesperson for the band revealed that after a successful medical procedure, doctors have recommended “rest and recuperation.”

“For once my timing has been a little off,” Watts said in a statement. “I am working hard to get fully fit but I have today accepted on the advice of the experts that this will take a while. After all the fans’ suffering caused by Covid I really do not want the many RS fans who have been holding tickets for this Tour to be disappointed by another postponement or cancellation. I have therefore asked my great friend Steve Jordan to stand in for me.”

 Jordan added: “It is an absolute honour and a privilege to be Charlie’s understudy and I am looking forward to rehearsing with Mick, Keith and Ronnie. No-one will be happier than me to give up my seat on the drum-riser as soon as Charlie tells me he is good to go.”

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