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| Ten Thousand Motels |
The rock star (retired) who could carry a toon
Ex-Stone Wyman rolls in to sign a humorous look at band's career
By Charles Heslett
leedstoday.net
May 3, 2006
IF you want a coconut get somebody else to climb the palm tree.
That was the sage advice Bill Wyman offered to his fellow Rolling Stone and rock wildman Keith Richards.
Last week the wrinkly guitarist was left concussed after reportedly falling out of a tree while on holiday in Fiji.
Mr Wyman, who finally left the Stones in 1993, said his former bandmate was probably trying to get himself a drink
The ex-Stones bassist told the YEP: "I was in Fiji in the early 1980s on holiday from the band, and I can tell you if I wanted a coconut you would get guys to climb up the trees and cut you one down.
"I think Keith was probably just trying to do it himself."
The 69-year-old spoke to the YEP at a booksigning in Leeds yesterday. He was autographing copies of his latest offering The Stones: A History in Cartoons, which charts the rise of band through the cartoons they inspired in the newspapers and magazines of the day.
Mr Wyman is famous for keeping detailed diaries throughout his musical career.
And he linked up with long-time collaborator and co-author Richard Havers to create their latest book using cartoons he saved from his time on the road with the Stones.
The band – Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts – are in the middle of a world tour.
Asked if he missed playing with them, Bill exclaimed: "Are you serious?
"Even if the Rolling Stones asked me to play the last three songs at their final concert I wouldn't do it. I did my 30 years and I've moved on.
"Don't get me wrong. I see Charlie (Watts] quite a lot, he's a good mate, and the rest of the band I see quite regularly apart from Keith as he lives in New York.
"But it's a bit like being a bricklayer all your life and someone coming along and asking you to build another wall. You're not going to come out of retirement to do it, are you?"
Mr Wyman is enjoying an active 'retirement' and when not with wife Suzanne Accosta and their three daughters he is touring with his band Rhythm Kings or overseeing restaurant chain Sticky Fingers.
As for being back in Leeds where the Stones once played to 100,000 in Roundhay Park in 1982, he said: "We first came to Leeds with the Stones in the 1960s. The trouble was in those days you couldn't go out because of the fans so all you ended up seeing was the inside of your hotel room."
Fan Peter Robinson, 53, of Selby, said: "In the 1960s you were being a rebel by buying a record by the Stones rather than the Beatles. I'm pleased to hear he is still making music."
Nicola Doherty, 19, from Bradford, the same age as Bill's ex-wife Mandy Smith when they married in the 1980s, said: "I'm buying the book for my boyfriend's mum as she's massive fan. I think the Rolling Stones were awesome."
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| lotsajizz |
Wyman remains such a putz
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| Some Guy |
douchebag |
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| doo doo doo Dude |
quote:
Bill Wyman said:
"But it's a bit like being a bricklayer all your life and someone coming along and asking you to build another wall. You're not going to come out of retirement to do it, are you?"
Is that why he's still laying bricks with his lame Rythymn Kings?
Give it a rest Bill, you bitter wig wearing bitch! |
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| Nellcote |
He projects such a tired viewpoint on this.
He really could use an image specialist.
Then again, as he now spends his time head down, trolling fields with a metal detector, there really is nothing to impress but earthworms & moles.
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| sirmoonie |
Ditto on putz and douchebag |
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| gotdablouse |
Way to go, how about telling us more about these busty babes above my message too ;-) They're not the same person, right ? |
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