| Exclusive premiere of the video for Stuff (Can't Get Enough), which Bill released in album form in 1992, and rereleased in 2007 as part of Bill's solo collection.Enjoy this fantastic video as a treat for fans!Backstage video footage of Bill and the Rhythm Kings at the O2 Arena on December 10, 2007.Check out the launch of the first in a series of Bill Wyman photos.First up are some candid shots backstage at the December 10 Led Zeppelin tribute concert held at the O2 Arena in London.The morning after the gig before!Bill reflects on the Led Zeppelin O2 Arena concert.Bill Wyman (born William George Perks on 24 October 1936) was the bassist for the English rock and roll band The Rolling Stones from its founding in 1962 until 1993.Since 1997, he has recorded and toured with his own band, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings.Early life
2 Music career
2.Solo albums
4 Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings
5 Solo singles
6 Bibliography
6.Early life
Bill Wyman (real name Bill Perks) was born at Lewisham Hospital, Pied Heath Road, Ladywell, Lewisham, South London, the son of a bricklayer and spent most of his early life in Penge, then in the county of Kent.He attended Beckenham and Penge Grammar School from 1947 to Easter 1953, leaving before the GCE exams after his father found him a job working for a bookmaker and insisted that he take it.Music career
Wyman took piano lessons from ages 10 to 13.After his marriage, he bought a guitar, but wasn't satisfied by his own progress.After hearing a bass guitar at a Barron Knights' concert, he fell in love with the sound of it and decided that this was his instrument.London band, The Cliftons.He began calling himself Bill Wyman using the surname of a friend with whom he had done National Service in the Royal Air Force.Although The Stones were impressed by his instrument and amplifier (and his abilility to provide the band with cigarettes), they weren't too fond of Wyman's style and personality (probably because he was a little older compared to the rest of the group members).Wyman always remained something of an outsider in the Stones during the following decades.Wyman's work as a Rolling Stone after the first year or so of being in the band, both in the studio and during concerts, rarely involved vocals.One notable exception was the song "In Another Land", released both on the Their Satanic Majesties Request album and also as a solo Bill Wyman single.Wyman penned song, "Downtown Suzie" (sung by Mick Jagger), was released on a collection of Rolling Stones outtakes, with the title of the song altered by Rolling Stones manager Allen Klein without informing either Wyman or the band (the subject of the song is actually named "Lucy").European hit single, "(Si, Si) Je Suis Un Rock Star", a parody on his French rock star exile status.The mid eighties also saw Wyman compose original music for two films by Italian film director Dario Argento: 1985's Phenomena and 1987's Terror At The Opera.Along with Charlie Watts, Wyman kept a low profile in comparison to Jagger and Richards.Wyman and Watts were, by all accounts, the most sensible and level headed of all the Stones, refusing to partake in the dizzying effects of drink and drugs.In the 1980s, distance grew between the other band members and Wyman due to, amongst other things, the Mandy Smith affair (see below).After having contributed to the album Steel Wheels (1989), he decided he had had enough of it, but took some time to finalise his decision to retire.Instead of choosing a permanent replacement, they recruited several bass players to support them during recordings and concerts, the first of whom, Darryl Jones, made the strongest impression.Tucky Buzzard, Mike Sanchez and Georgie Fame.Following his 70th birthday in October 2006, he undertook another British tour.He has also contributed backing vocals.Willie Dixon and Ricky Fenson) and his tight work with Charlie Watts.Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year.These days he divides his time between his manor in Suffolk and a house in the south of France.He is also an amateur archaeologist and has a hobby of Relic hunting, going as far as having a letter published in The Times about his hobby (Friday 2 March 2007.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.See Copyrights for details.Rolling Stone Bill Wyman.They are best known for their live performances, as they tour frequently both through Europe and the United States.See Copyrights for details.Suffolk in 1968 I kept finding fragments in the grounds which inspired my interest even more.Scope directly to discover if together we could develop a lightweight, easy to use metal detector suitable to newcomers to detecting of all ages that still delivered serious treasure finding performance.The Bill Wyman Signature Detector is the result of our two year long collaboration.Roman Britain, as well as blades from 3,000 years ago.Then I can invent my own stories about how a particular coin or brooch came to be in that field.Not the Bill Wyman you're looking for?Mini Biography:
Wyman was born in Lewishman, Kent on 24th October 1936.Trivia:
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