At one point in the early Eighties, as recalled by The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards, Mick had been drinking with him, and at some point early morning in an Amsterdam hotel, decided to phone Charlie Watts’s room, slurring ‘’is that my drummer? Get your arse down here now.” Charlie did not appreciate this, went down to Mick’s room after putting on one of his best Saville Row suits, and when the door was opened, casually said “I’m not your drummer, you’re my fucking singer” and punched him so hard, knocking him out, he nearly fell out the window. Keith has been known to try and kill Ronnie Wood on occasion, one for freebasing without his permission, another time for watching the boxing when he should have been jamming. By Martin Appleby (Sabotage Times 20 reasons The Rolling Stones smash the Beatles).

If there are any other good stories about Charlie - would love to hear them.

Charlie rocks ! 

Welcome to the Asylum, Creative.

If true (and I have no reason to believe it's not) perhaps the No 1 moment in Stones History I would like
to have witnessed as "a fly on the wall".

Can you fucking imagine that sight?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

   

In an interview he said it was during that period that he was on drugs and an alcoholic and he said he was probably drunk. This story gets romanticized and Keith likes to spin the old yarn about Mick falling into a canal in Amsterdam from the punch but I suspect that like many of Keith's stories, the truth is probably less exciting.