Charles Robert “Charlie” Watts (born 2 June 1941) is an English drummer, best known as an associate of The Rolling Stones. He’s in addition the leader of a jazz band, a record producer, commercial artist, and horse breeder. Besides his musical imagination, Watts given graphic art to early records including the Between the Buttons record sleeve and was responsible for the 1975 tour statement press conference in Nyc. The group surprised the throng of waiting reporters by driving and playing “Brown Sugar” to the rear of a flatbed truck at the center of Manhattan traffic; a gimmick AC/DC reproduced after the same year. Watts recalled it was a standard method for New Orleans jazz bands to encourage forthcoming dates. Also, with Jagger, he designed the complex stages for tours, first leading to the lotus-shaped layout of that 1975 Tour of the Americas, in addition to the 1989–1990 Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour, the 1997 Bridges to Babylon Tour, the 2002-2003 Licks Tour, as well as the 2005-2007 A Bigger Bang Tour. In 1989, The Rolling Stones were inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.