Rolling Stones resume live shows with emotional Charlie Watts tribute

Rolling Stones resume live shows with emotional Charlie Watts tribute

The Rolling Stones have played their first concert since the death of their drummer Charlie Watts last month.

The small warm-up show took place in Massachusetts Gillette Stadium, to an audience of about 300 people.

One night in 1984, Mick Jagger made a mistake.

Worse for wear in an Amsterdam hotel, the Rolling Stones frontman phoned up Charlie Watts' room and demanded, "Where's my drummer?"

Twenty minutes later, Watts appeared at his door, dressed to the nines in a Savile Row suit, clean-shaven and wearing cologne. "Never call me your drummer again," he told Jagger. "You're my singer."

According to Keith Richards' 2010 memoir, Watts then hauled Jagger up by the lapels "and gave him a right hook".