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I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.

Bill Wyman

I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
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Museums Photography Work
I’m not a musician, I just play bass.
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Bass Musician Play
My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
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Celebrity Famous Firsts Person Records
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.
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Adulation Shadow Shy
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.
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Advertising Thirty Twenties
I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
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Hobbies Interesting Photography
I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.
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Baby Girl House
I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
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Kings Love Play
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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Ideas People Song
With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.
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Kings Music Song
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.
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Book Giving Research
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.
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Drums Belong Forte Persons Upfront
Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
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Done Everything Stones Time
It’s all right leaping about the stage when you’re 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing
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Dumb Embarrassing Funny
The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
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Gigs Odd Small Stones
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.
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Albums Frustrated Song

I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.

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