Watts ' personal life has outwardly appeared to be substantially quieter than those of his bandmates and many of his rock-and-roll colleagues ; onstage , he seems to furnish a calm and amused counterpoint to his flamboyant bandmates . Ever faithful to his wife Shirley , Watts consistently refused sexual favours from groupies on the road ; in Robert Greenfield 's '' STP : A Journey Through America with The Rolling Stones '' , a documentary of the 1972 American Tour , it is noted that when the group was invited to the Playboy Mansion during that tour , Watts took advantage of Hugh Hefner 's game room instead of frolicking with the women . " I 've never filled the stereotype of the rock star , " he remarked . " Back in the '70s , Bill Wyman and I decided to grow beards , and the effort left us exhausted . " Watts has spoken openly about a period in the mid-1980s when his previously moderate use of alcohol and drugs became problematic : " My drug and alcohol problems were my way of dealing with family problems ... Looking back on it , I think it was a mid-life crisis . All I know is that I became totally another person around 1983 and came out of it about 1986 . I nearly lost my wife and everything over my behaviour "
1972 American Tour
The Rolling Stones American Tour 1972
Charlie Watts