How is this appropriate for Hacker News?
The energy from Charlie Watts’ drum sticks transmuted into more lines of code than you will ever be able to count.
All communities either become conservative and lock in around a few norms and aggressively police them or become liberal and become about anything and everything.
There is no healthy middle.
I mean why should economics and housing and finance topics be of interests to hackers?
The Rolling Stones are one of the most influential rock bands of the past half century and that is potentially worthy of discussion.
I think housing and economy and finance are even more appropriate at times, especially when discussing topics that affect the average person - wonky, technical discussions that take a lot of thought and processing of second order effects.
I did prefer the original title which included the fact that Charlie Watts was the drummer for the Rolling Stones. I didn't know him by name, and adding more context to the title seemed helpful to me at least.
In general I feel like HN suffers from title over-editing, but never from too much variety.
It's not another political or cultural flamewar?
Also, these people have been around for so long, that I was starting to suspect they were actually immortal.
> The news comes weeks after it was announced that Watts would miss the band's US tour dates to recover from an unspecified medical procedure.