widow of Rolling Stones' Drummer Charlie Watts
Shirley Ann Shepherd Watts, the wife of late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, died on Friday, Dec. 16. She was 84.
Shirley Ann Watts, a former art student and prominent breeder of Arabian horses who met drummer Charlie Watts
well before he joined the Rolling Stones and with him formed one of rock’s most enduring marriages, has died at 84.
Shirley Ann Shepherd was born in London in 1938 and was studying sculpture at the Royal College of Art in the early '60s when she first saw her future husband
who at the time was part of the emerging blues and jazz scene in England that also included Jagger and Richards. They were already dating when Watts joined the Stones early in 1963, and married the following year
"Shirley died peacefully on Friday 16th December in Devon after a short illness surrounded by her family," her family announced on Monday.