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 Stones introduced all these young people to the blues music, and I'm doing the same thing.
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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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It's also great to work with people I've known for many years.
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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.
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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.
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The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.
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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.
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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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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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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.