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Charles Robert "Charlie" Watts (born 2 June 1941) is an English drummer, best known as a member of The Rolling Stones. He is also the leader of a jazz band, a record producer, commercial artist, and horse breeder.
Charles Robert "Charlie" Watts was born to Charles Watts, a lorry driver for a precursor of British Rail and his wife Lilian (née Eaves) at University College Hospital, London, and raised (along with his sister Linda) in Islington and then Kingsbury. He attended Tylers Croft Secondary Modern School from 1952 to 1956; as a schoolboy, he displayed a talent for art, cricket and football.
Watts' parents gave him his first drum kit in 1955; he was interested in jazz, and would practice drumming along with jazz records he collected. After completing secondary school, he enrolled at Harrow Art School (now the University of Westminster), which he attended until 1960. After leaving school, Watts worked as a graphic designer for an advertising company called Charlie Daniels Studios, and also played drums occasionally with local bands in coffee shops and clubs. In 1961 he met Alexis Korner, who invited him to join his band, Blues Incorporated. At that time Watts was on his way to a sojourn working as a graphic designer in Denmark, but he accepted Korner's offer when he returned to London in February 1962.
Actors: Cristhian Andrews (actor), James Gandolfini (actor), Brad Garrett (actor), Kevin Cannon (actor), Wendy Cohen (miscellaneous crew), Mark Johnson (producer), Christopher McDonald (actor), Steven Van Zandt (producer), Isiah Whitlock Jr. (actor), Paul Thornton (actor), Peter Conboy (actor), Lisa Lampanelli (actress), Veronica Milagros (actress), Sidney Wolinsky (editor), Catherine Marie Thomas (costume designer),
Plot: On a train, Keith and Mick chat about the blues and the Rolling Stones are born. Douglas and Joe chat in front of a New Jersey music store, and a band is born: as Douglas's sister tells us, it's one of many that don't make it. We follow Douglas from high school (1963-64), when he sees himself as a loser, into the band, playing drums and singing backup - then as the front man. There are tensions, a breakup, an audition in front of a major player, and decisions. Douglas pursues Grace, a country-club gal with hip sensibilities who believes in him. There's also his father, working class, wanting Douglas to apply himself as he watches his own life fill with regrets.
Keywords: 1960s, african-american, art, audition, band, blues, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, brawl, christmas-dinner, christmas-presentActors: Gabrielle Union (actress), Beyoncé Knowles (producer), Emmanuelle Chriqui (actress), Elvis Presley (actor), Jeffrey Wright (actor), Beyoncé Knowles (actress), Mos Def (actor), Jay O. Sanders (actor), Eric Bogosian (actor), Cedric the Entertainer (actor), Vincent D'Onofrio (actor), Norman Reedus (actor), Adrien Brody (actor), Terence Blanchard (composer), Marc Levin (producer),
Plot: In this tale of sex, violence, race, and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, "Cadillac Records" follows the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
Keywords: 1950s, african-american, african-american-music, arson, band, bankruptcy, bathtub, bigotry, billboard-magazine, blues-musicActors: Irwin Keyes (actor), Ralph Rieckermann (composer), Irwin Keyes (producer), Irwin Keyes (actor), Jossara Jinaro (actress), David Goodberg (miscellaneous crew), David Goodberg (actor), Ryan Kitley (actor), Matt Hickey (actor), Matt Hickey (miscellaneous crew), Frederic Demey (producer), Michelle LaFrance (actress), Pablo Leda (actor), Emerson Brooks (actor), Pablo Leda (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Horror,Actors: David Walliams (actor), Ralph Brown (actor), Clifford De Spenser (miscellaneous crew), Mohamed Benhmamane (miscellaneous crew), David Arnold (composer), Stephen Woolley (producer), Stephen Woolley (director), Tuva Novotny (actress), David Morrissey (actor), Elizabeth Tremblay (miscellaneous crew), Paddy Considine (actor), Jane Trower (miscellaneous crew), Paula Jack (miscellaneous crew), Ben Whishaw (actor), Simon Chandler (actor),
Plot: Fact-based story about the drug-addled and sordid life of The Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones. Unfortunately the story moves so quickly into the sensationalized decadence and drug-induced state of Jones, that the unknowing viewer has to wonder why anyone would care. There are only a few framing sequences with members of The Stones, particularly Keith Richards, that show they had a great respect for him and tried to bring him back into the band as he drifted away. Mixed into the destruction of Jones is a common builder, Frank Thorogood, who is given the unenviable task of trying to please Jones by rebuilding his estate and to watch him per Jones' manager's instructions. Thorogood's life is so far removed from all of the sex and drugs that he sees, that he envies and desires the tawdry life as well, but never quite fits in. Unfortunately, at least according to this film and according to a supposed death bed confessional of Thorogood in 1993, it led to Thorogood's murder of Jones in a swimming pool "accident".
Keywords: 1960s, accountant, acid-the-drug, american-flag, anita-pallenberg, antichrist, archive-footage, asthma, attempt-to-save-life, bandActors: Vincent De Paul (actor), Niko Godfrey (miscellaneous crew), Matt Mickelson (actor), Matthew R. Staley (actor), Dawn Blacksten (miscellaneous crew), Toneey Acevedo (actor), Tina Murphy (actress), Justin Wolfe (miscellaneous crew), Joe Wiecha (director), Michael Ray Brown (writer), Lance M. Culpepper (costume designer), Donna Kimura (actress), Jeremy Nichols (actor), Kenneth Kimura (actor), Jenny O'Brien (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: Anika Kunik (actress), Larry Cashion (actor), Justin Spence (producer), Justin Spence (editor), Justin Spence (director), Bryan Kent (actor), Christina Smith (actress), Joshua J. Cotten (actor), Joshua J. Cotten (miscellaneous crew), Lynn Holly Robertson (actress), Damian Fannin (actor), Robert Calder (actor), Stephan George (actor), Jim Dodson (producer), Jim Dodson (writer),
Plot: Charlie Watts has it all or so it seems. Charlie is cheating on his supportive wife of seven years. The subject of his affair is the beautiful Lindsey Cavanaugh. He has an idea to get rid of his wife, but Lindsey has other plans. And so begins an adventuresome round of plot twists that build to a suprise-filled climax. It's an intense psychological thriller with offbeat humor.
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Josh Peck (actor), Colton Dunn (actor), Frankie Ray (actor), Martin Beck (actor), Sydney 'Big Dawg' Colston (actor), Erika Arshaye (actress), Carolyn A. Masters (actress), Sam Kwasman (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Jennifer Harland (miscellaneous crew), Ken Hovgaard (miscellaneous crew), Nicole Oliver (actress), George Segal (actor), Ashley Fester (miscellaneous crew), Debbie Coe (miscellaneous crew), David Lewis (actor), Doug Abrahams (actor), Barry W. Levy (actor), Hiro Kanagawa (actor), Armand Mastroianni (director), Jodelle Ferland (actress), J. Peter Robinson (composer), Jamie Payton (miscellaneous crew), Andrew Wheeler (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance,Never let me go
Love me much too much
If you let me go
Life will loseits touch
What woul I be without you?
There's no place for me without you
Never let me go
I'd be so lost if you went away
Thered be a thousand hours in a day without you
I know
Because of one caress my world was overturned
at the very start
All my bridges burned by my flming heart
You'd never leave me would you?
You couldn't hurt me could you?
Never let me go