Albert Lee and I have played together at the occasional charity event, he’s a genius on guitar. Sometimes you can tend to overplay, if you have so many people on stage,” he observes.
It sounded just that little bit neater and cleaner than it has before. “We did a couple of gigs in February and they went really well. There have been a few changes in the Rhythm Kings’ line-up since last year, and Bill reckons he’s noticed an improvement. Bill also has a 41-year-old son, Stephen, from his first marriage. It became a working holiday in the end, because I can never stop working, but at least it was a break, in a different country and a different environment.”īill married American fashion designer Suzanne Accosta on April 21, 1993, and together they have three young daughters, Katharine Noelle, Jessica Rose and Matilda Mae. We had three weeks in France, it was my first holiday for two years. “I just took a brief holiday with my family.
To prepare himself for the onslaught, Wyman has had a short vacation to recharge his batteries. “We played at the Jam House two yeas ago,” he recalls. The 65-year-old bandleader is looking forward to his return to the city. This time out, they’re kicking off with a 37-date British tour, which comes to Birmingham’s Symphony Hall tonight, before setting off around the world in the summer. Last year Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings toured the UK, Europe and America, playing more than 80 dates to more than 150,000 fans. I don’t like to live on past achievements.”īill rounded up a number of like-minded friends, some of them renowned veterans like organ maestro Georgie Fame and guitar whiz Albert Lee, others less well known like classy singer Beverly Skeete and Kidderminster boogie woogie pianist Mike Sanchez. “It was the record companies who insisted we were Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings. “I wanted to call this band the Rhythm Kings,” he insists. In 1996, he formed a new outfit, because he wanted to play the type of music which first inspired him to pick up the bass in the first place. After 30 years with the “Greatest Rock and Roll Band in The World” Wyman wasn’t about to retire gracefully. Since he quit the Rolling Stones a decade ago, bass guitarist Bill Wyman has been keeping himself busy. Ex-Rolling Stone bass guitarist Bill Wyman tells John Whishaw about his own band’s latest tour and what drives him on at the age of 65.
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