No One Believed These Bill Wyman Stories Were True! Until They Watched This!
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No One Believed These Bill Wyman Stories Were True! Until They Watched This!
The Rolling Stones only hired Bill Wyman because he had a Vox AC30 amplifier they couldn't afford. He joined the band not for his talent — but for his gear, a round of drinks, and a packet of cigarettes. And then he stayed for thirty-one years.
In this video, we uncover the most unbelievable true stories from Bill Wyman's extraordinary life — from surviving the London Blitz as a child in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods, to building his own fretless bass guitar because he couldn't afford one, to co-writing the iconic riff for "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and never receiving a single writing credit.
Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts formed one of the greatest rhythm sections in rock history — the foundation beneath every Rolling Stones hit from "Satisfaction" to "Gimme Shelter" to "Brown Sugar." During the legendary Exile on Main St. sessions in the south of France, while chaos and excess surrounded the band, Wyman drove to the studio, played his parts sober, wrote down everything that happened, and drove home. He was the unofficial historian of the most documented band in the world — keeping daily journals for over eighty years.
We explore his shocking claim that the Rolling Stones voted three-to-two to release "Satisfaction" as a single — with Jagger and Richards voting against their own masterpiece. We reveal how he was one of only two Stones to attend Brian Jones's funeral in 1969. We cover his dramatic departure in 1992 — and how the band refused to believe he'd actually left for two full years. We discuss his second life as an amateur archaeologist who designed his own patented metal detector and found Roman artifacts in English fields. And we address the Mandy Smith controversy honestly and directly.
From his return at age 87 to play on Hackney Diamonds, to his famous Sticky Fingers restaurant in Kensington, to the dreams he still has about being on tour — this is the complete, honest, complicated story of the most underestimated Rolling Stone who ever lived.
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No One Believed These Bill Wyman Stories Were True! Until They Watched This!
Behind Guitars
369 views
#BillWyman #RollingStones #RockHistory
No One Believed These Bill Wyman Stories Were True! Until They Watched This!
The Rolling Stones only hired Bill Wyman because he had a Vox AC30 amplifier they couldn't afford. He joined the band not for his talent — but for his gear, a round of drinks, and a packet of cigarettes. And then he stayed for thirty-one years.
In this video, we uncover the most unbelievable true stories from Bill Wyman's extraordinary life — from surviving the London Blitz as a child in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods, to building his own fretless bass guitar because he couldn't afford one, to co-writing the iconic riff for "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and never receiving a single writing credit.
Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts formed one of the greatest rhythm sections in rock history — the foundation beneath every Rolling Stones hit from "Satisfaction" to "Gimme Shelter" to "Brown Sugar." During the legendary Exile on Main St. sessions in the south of France, while chaos and excess surrounded the band, Wyman drove to the studio, played his parts sober, wrote down everything that happened, and drove home. He was the unofficial historian of the most documented band in the world — keeping daily journals for over eighty years.
We explore his shocking claim that the Rolling Stones voted three-to-two to release "Satisfaction" as a single — with Jagger and Richards voting against their own masterpiece. We reveal how he was one of only two Stones to attend Brian Jones's funeral in 1969. We cover his dramatic departure in 1992 — and how the band refused to believe he'd actually left for two full years. We discuss his second life as an amateur archaeologist who designed his own patented metal detector and found Roman artifacts in English fields. And we address the Mandy Smith controversy honestly and directly.
From his return at age 87 to play on Hackney Diamonds, to his famous Sticky Fingers restaurant in Kensington, to the dreams he still has about being on tour — this is the complete, honest, complicated story of the most underestimated Rolling Stone who ever lived.