Rolling Stones share video tribute to Charlie Watts

Stones post montage of clips from drummer's almost 60-year career with band

He thought it would last a year at most, but Charlie Watts's run as drummer with the Rolling Stones lasted nearly six decades. This weekend surviving band members Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood united to bid a public farewell to the man whose rhythms powered their many hits, who died last Tuesday aged 80.

After commenting individually on the loss last week, the Stones have released a video tribute featuring key moments of Watts's career. The two-minute clip, posted on social media, includes an interview in which the drummer, a lorry driver's son from Wembley, revealed that when he joined the band in 1963, he thought it might last a year.