# Handwritten Letter Brian Jones Penned Asking Charlie Watts To Join The Rolling Stones Is Going up for Auction

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/handwritten-letter-brian-jones-penned-asking-charlie-watts-to-join-the-rolling-stones-is-going-up-for-auction/
- Published: 2026-10-30T13:36:41+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-30T14:39:47+00:00
- Original publisher: American Songwriter
- Original article: https://americansongwriter.com/handwritten-letter-brian-jones-penned-asking-charlie-watts-to-join-the-rolling-stones-is-going-up-for-auction/
- Topics: Entertainment, Music

## Key points

- Brian Jones’s 1962 letter inviting Charlie Watts to join the Stones is up for auction.
- The letter is expected to fetch $70,000 to $80,000.
- Watts joined the band in January 1963 and played with it until 2021.

## Summary

A handwritten letter from Brian Jones inviting Charlie Watts to leave Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated and join the group that became the Rolling Stones is going up for auction in New York this December. Dated 3 June 1962, it captures Jones seeking a drummer before the band had its name, and offers a glimpse of how its early line-up and sound were taking shape.

Watts did not join until January 1963, alongside Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and remained with the Stones until his death in 2021. The letter had been owned by Watts’ sister and is estimated to sell for $70,000 to $80,000. In it, Jones describes the group’s rehearsals and ambition, while bluntly calling its current drummer “atrocious”.

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