In most photos of the Rolling Stones, Charlie Watts, who died this week at 80, looked like the band's accountant. Unlike Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones and Bill Wyman, Watts didn't seem to fit in nor did it appear he wanted to. And in many ways he didn't. Watts, at the tail end of the 1950s, was on his way to a jazz drumming career, or so he h…
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