Charlie Watts and Don Everly, RIP -- August 24, 2021

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Charlie Watts has died. He always had a distinctive look and a distinctive sound on the drums. Now there are only two surviving original members of the Rolling Stones. Charlie also played jazz. There is a great story about Charlie and a glass door. 

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Don Everly has died. I remember the Everly Brothers from the earliest times that I listened to the radio, even though by that time they had stopped having hits in the US. 

Keith Richards 75 -- December 18, 2018

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Guitarist and composer Keith Richards, one of the founders of the Rolling Stones, was born 75 years ago today, on 18-December-1943.  Richards and vocalist Mick Jagger wrote many hit songs.  He has always had an interest in blues and other roots music.

People often make jokes wondering how he could still be alive, considering his substance abuse issues.