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The Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, who helped them become one of the greatest bands in rock 'n' roll, has died at the age of 80.

He started off as a jazz musician who was lured into the emerging blues scene and rock and roll with the Rolling Stones.

Alan Florence was a sound engineer at the IBC Recording Studios in London, and he worked with the band when they were first starting out. He had the first tapes that the band recorded.

He told Newsday: 鈥淭hey didn't have an identity when I first met them and recorded them.鈥�

鈥淚 was knocked out by them. Charlie was a very nice lad, very easy going. When the boys had a track to record, I think Charlie got straight away - because of his jazz background - the idea of the kind of rhythm they wanted for the track. He just hit the nail on the head because he was so good. I knew straight away they were going to be good and big, but nobody realised they were going to be worldwide as they were.鈥�

Photo: The Rolling Stones attending a premier in London (PA/Wire)

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