
Watts & Ward is a BIG speakeasy with over 6,000 square feet of space and three bars. Located underneath Caffe Luna, just look for the two iron railed gateways around the corner to visit Watts & Ward! Stepping downstairs, I find myself in a narrow hallway with entrances on both sides. Thankfully, Wednesday night rolls around pretty quickly and I head on over to the corner of Hargett and Blount. Lucky me, because their media preview comes a day early, before their grand opening! The security man, Jarvis, shakes his head no and reminds us that Watts & Ward will be opening up on Thursday. Looks like they are doing a friends and family event and I test the security up front as to what it would take for us to get into this cool new speakeasy.


Having said that, I do have four vintage cars and can’t drive the bloody things. “Because I’m not really a rock star,” he said. Meet Steve Jordan, the Rolling Stones drummer who may replace Charlie Watts Charlie Watts and his wife, Shirley, stayed together for 57 years before his death on Aug. We kindly request that the privacy of his family, band members and close friends is respected at this difficult time,” the statement concluded. “Charlie was a cherished husband, father and grandfather and also as a member of The Rolling Stones one of the greatest drummers of his generation. He passed away peacefully in a London hospital earlier today surrounded by his family,” the band said in a statement.

“It is with immense sadness that we announce the death of our beloved Charlie Watts.

The couple smiled together at an event for the dog foundation Forever Hounds Trust in May 2020 in one of the last photos of Watts before he died. Rolling Stones drummer and music icon Charlie Watts attended one last charity event with Shirley Ann Shephard, his wife of 57 years. Rolling Stones logo to turn black in honor of late drummer Charlie Watts Mick Jagger on loss of Charlie Watts: ‘He held the band together for so long’ Rolling Stones reveal Charlie Watts recorded new tracks before death How the Rolling Stones overcame heroin addiction to make ‘Exile’
