Charlie Watkins (audio engineer)

Charlie Watkins
Born
Charles Watkins

(1923-06-28)28 June 1923
London, England
Died28 October 2014(2014-10-28) (aged 91)
Balham, London, England

Charlie Watkins (28 June 1923 - 28 October 2014) was a British musician, inventor, and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Watkins Electric Music and a pioneer of sound reinforcement systems for rock concerts. Watkins was the first to build PA systems with multiple slaved solid state amplifiers driving various loudspeaker stacks, beginning with the Windsor Festival in 1967.

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