Bill Wyman
Bill Wyman
William George Wyman, known professionally as Bill Wyman, is an English musician, record producer, songwriter and singer best known as the bassist for the English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones from 1962 until 1993. Since 1997, he has recorded and toured with his own band, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings. He has worked producing both records and film, and has scored music for film in movies and television...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth24 October 1936
funny dumb embarrassing
It's all right leaping about the stage when you're 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing
photography museums charity
I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
kings done proud
I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.
twenties advertising exposure
Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.
song ideas people
If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.
berries littles sides
You could put Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley on one side of the stage, and James Brown on the other, and you wouldn't even notice the others were there!
next knows
You never know what your next dig is going to find.
play musician bass
I'm not a musician, I just play bass.
thinking musician proud
There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.
photography interesting hobbies
I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
girl baby house
I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.
fashion people young
Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it.
bit
We usually do things a bit more jazzy.
opened restaurant
And that's why I opened that restaurant just to get some of it out of my attic, to put up on the walls.