But I was surprised because, first of all, I didn’t know that Charlie was in the hospital. Around that time, Jordan was tapped to fill in on drums saying, “I was almost the last person to know. News of Watts sitting out the latest leg of the Stones’ “No Filter” tour came about three weeks before his untimely passing. I didn’t want to think of an extraordinary burden since it was already enough before his passing.” It doesn’t affect me since I won’t let it. I don’t read social media and so I’m not bogged down with chatter. And then it became this whole other thing. Jordan continued, “That made the death even more shocking and tragic since the week before, there was a whole other mindset. ‘We’re going to do this, and play that, and Charlie is going to come back and everything will be great.'” We were playing this stuff with less of a burden. The week before, we were like, ‘Charlie is going to be cool! This is great!’ The whole energy of the rehearsals were even more upbeat because he was feeling better. That week, the rehearsals took on a different energy because we were upbeat about him recovering.

In a new interview with Rolling Stone, drummer Steve Jordan, who filled in for Watts, said, “You have to understand, the week before Charlie passed, I had gotten information that he was doing better.

The Rolling Stones were under the impression that Charlie Watts would return to the band following his illness that sadly resulted in his death at age 80.

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