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
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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.
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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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The Stones introduced all these young people to the blues music, and I'm doing the same thing.
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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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We courted adversity, took risks, and drove mothers crazy.
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Because I had to do everything in bits and pieces, I was never quite satisfied when I finished a solo album or a soundtrack because I knew I could have done them better if I could have focused on them 100% until they were done.
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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.
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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.
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This small tour, playing clubs, where the music is best, and where the music was actually written for is not a way to make money.
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We don't sell so many records. When I make the album, I pay the musicians.
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You can go to art exhibitions, from van Gogh or Leonardo, you can see the whole history of art in museums and exhibitions. You can see the oldest film that was ever made, etc etc, so why not the same with the music industry?
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If they were doing something special, like maybe a TV special for the year 2000, playing the old songs, then maybe I'll do it.
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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.
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So I was releasing this tension with my solo albums, but I didn't want to play music just for money.