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
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.
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It would have been the first time the Beatles and Stones collaborated on stage I suppose. We have played together on record in the past.
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Our record was at 98 in the charts when we went so no-one knew us, so people just didn't come to our shows - we'd be in a 10,000 stadium and there'd be 300 people there.
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I can dig in my garden and find stuff that dates back to the 1100's.
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The Stones introduced all these young people to the blues music, and I'm doing the same thing.
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I try to listen to the music channels but you hear stuff where people sing terribly out of tune and they play the wrong notes and chords.
enjoying life
My life is really full. I am really enjoying it.
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I wanted a variety in my life but after a couple of years I thought that music is what I do so maybe I should start doing it again.
heard obscure people songs stones
People will say that they never heard any of those songs before but back then, no one had heard the obscure songs the Stones were doing.
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.
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The Stones used to do that a bit. Sometimes we would pull a song that was ten years old out and put it on the album.
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Everybody in the band does it for the same reasons, as I do, to have a good time and send the crowd home with smiles on their faces.
band behind music
The whole idea behind the band was to play music that we love.
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The Rolling Stones' recorded legacy is unfortunately similar to that of many other rock stars of the 1960s -- a great burst of creativity that tapers off into a stretch (eventually decades long) of unremarkable (and sometimes downright awful) recorded work.