Rolling Stones’ Charlie Watts last request to band before his death revealed

The Rolling Stones pay tribute to late drummer Charlie Watts while launching new album Hackney Diamonds. Source: Reuters Live

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00:00 It must feel different not having Charlie Watts in the studio with you, playing.

00:06 What was that like?

00:07 -It's all -- Ever since Charlie's gone, it's different, of course.

00:12 You know, I mean, he's number four.

00:14 He's missing.

00:15 He's up there.

00:16 -I do feel that number four is around.

00:18 -Of course he's missed, incredibly.

00:21 But thanks to Charlie Watts, also, we have Steve Jordan, who was Charlie's recommendation

00:28 for if anything should happen to him, Steve Jordan's your man.

00:33 -He picked Steve Jordan.

00:34 -Yeah, and, you know, just out of way, way, way back.

00:38 And also, you know, he's been a friend of ours.

00:40 I've worked with Steve.

00:42 So it was a kind of natural progression.

00:44 You know, it would have been a lot harder without Charlie's blessing on that, you know.

00:50 But at the same time, it's a hard thing, you know.

00:52 -Did you get to do any tracks with him on the album?

00:54 -With Charlie?

00:55 -Yeah.

00:56 -Yeah, so...

00:57 -There's 12 tracks on the album, and 10 -- well, I think, actually, it's not true, because

01:03 it's not on there.

01:04 But most of them with Steve, but two are tracks we recorded in 2019 with Charlie.

01:09 And so we used two of the tracks that we recorded with Charlie before.

01:14 -Yeah, "Midnight Assault" and "Mess It Up."

01:17 Those are the two tracks.