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Bill Wyman Biography

Bill Wyman (born William George Perks Jr., 24 October 1936) is an English musician, record producer, songwriter and singer. He was the bass guitarist 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 records and films, and has scored music for film in movies and television.

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I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time.

Music, Play, Stay, Want

With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.

Arranging, Kings, Music, Song, Songs

When I record in a studio I don't use an amp. I go directly into the board, so I can get that very fat, full sound - which is my favorite sound.

Boards, Fat, Favorite, Sound, Use

I don't make any money.

Make, Money

I'm not a musician, I just play bass.

Bass, Musician, Play

Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've always had. It suits me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio.

Boards, Directly, Imitate, Like, Player, Sound

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.

Done, Kings, Proud, Rolling, Work

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!

Berries, Culture, James, Littles, Richard, Stage

It's all right leaping about the stage when you're 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing

Dumb, Embarrassing, Funny, Gets, Leaping

The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.

Gig, Gigs, Odd, Smaller, Stones

All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the written word better than I could.

Book, Give, Giving, Research, Word

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.

Competent, Ideas, Like, People, Song

I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.

Back, Belong, Forte, Person, Persons, Quite

My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

Firsts, Les, Owned, Paul, Record, Records

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.

Applies, Musician, Proud, Think, Thinking

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.

Acquire, Advertising, Customers, Forty, Thirty, Twenties

You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.

Album, Albums, Frustrated, George, Led, Song

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

Adulation, Audience, Back, Shadow, Shy

I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.

1480, Baby, Girl, House, Moat

But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?

Music, Radio, Years, Young

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