“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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