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A side story related to the late, great Charlie Watts, a friend who's wife works as a nurse at Milton Keynes general hospital was Charlie's mothers prime carer during her end of life care and Charlie often visited his mum of course until she sadly died there. The wife happened to mention to Charlie during one of these visits that her husband was a huge Stones fan and Charlie kindly gave her some passes to a forthcoming show at Wembley Stadium, which was very kind of him and so naturally my mate went along to the show. However, as these were also backstage passes he was welcomed to hang around and was invited into the bands rec area where he played pool with the band and generally hung out for a while. It didn't end there, as he was so chill about the experience, didn't take pics or ask for autographs etc, they invited him to another show, and then another show!
This all happened several years ago and he still gets invited to Stones shows when they are playing in the UK as they just like him as a nice guy (which he is!) It all started from his wife looking after Charlies mum and is just a small measure of the man's kindness and generosity.