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

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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