The Human Riff was actually explaining to me about the synthesis of hillbilly and black music that customized the recipe for rock 'n' roll, putting a match to the kindling for the nascent Rolling Stones and the generation of hopeful oiks they represented. But that payoff line has always felt like a playfully succinct overview of the man who sat behind him for 58 years. In parallel timeline, you could imagine Wolfgang Amadeus looking up to Charlie Watts. Everyone else did.
-Paul Sexton, Charlie's Good Tonight: The Life, the Times, and the Rolling Stones
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