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 William
George Wyman was born in London and joined The Rolling Stones
in 1962. The following year the line-up was completed with the
addition of Charlie Watts and the legend was born. The band
was later described by Geoffrey Cannon as, "Perverted,
outrageous, violent, repulsive, ugly, tasteful, incoherent.
A travesty. That's what's good about them."
Bill is now the owner of The Ripple Group of companies and the
London based Sticky Fingers restaurant. In 1993, he married
Suzanne Accosta and together they have three young daughters
- Katharine Noelle, Jessica Rose and Matilda Mae. Bill has an
older son Stephen from a previous marriage.
To date, Bill has released two books. The first was his autobiography
Stone Alone: The Story of a Rock and Roll Band, (1990) and his
second was Wyman Shoots Chagall, (1998). This charming limited
edition book presented a selection of informal photographs taken
by Bill of the late artist Marc Chagall. Each book came with
a CD of classical music entitled, The Chagall Suite - written
and arranged by Bill Wyman and Mike Batt. Previous solo recordings
include, Monkey Grip, Stone Alone, Bill Wyman and (Si Si) Je
Suis un Rockstar, reached The Top 20 in a variety of countries.
In 1985 he recorded, Willie and The Poor Boys, with Charlie
Watts, Ronnie Wood, Andy Fairweather-Low, Chris Rea, Paul Rogers
and Jimmy Page, to raise money for ARMS (The Multiple Sclerosis
Charity) and released a second album, Willie and The Poor Boys
Live, with Gary Brooker and other musician friends.
Bill Wyman has been seen in films, Sympathy for the Devil, Gimme
Shelter, Ladies and Gentlemen and Rolling Stones, Let's Spend
The Night Together, Digital Dreams and Rolling Stones in IMAX,
Larger Than Life. Bill wrote the soundtrack for The Ryan O'Neal,
Omar Sharif and Anne Archer film, Green Ice and contributed
to the soundtracks for two Dario Argento films Bill's restaurant
Sticky Fingers - which an American critic called, "The
San Lorenzo of burger restaurants" - has recently reached
its eleventh anniversary and over the years has won a variety
of high profile awards. Most recently, Michael Winner presented
Sticky Fingers with The Sunday Times award for Best Hamburger
of 1999.
In 1996, in conjunction with his co-writer Terry Taylor, Bill
Wyman decided to form a new band who would play a mixture of
jazz and blues - music which first inspired Bill to pick up
a bass guitar. The band, whose members include Georgie Fame,
Albert Lee, Martin Taylor and Gary Brooker became Bill Wyman's
Rhythm Kings.
The Rhythm King's first album Struttin' Our Stuff was released
in 1997 and the second Anyway The Wind Blows in 1998. Anyway
The Wind Blows was met with great reviews from magazines such
as Q and Mojo and stormed to the top five of the Jazz and Blues
album charts resulting in a successful UK tour. ‘Groovin’
The Rhythm Kings third album was released by their new label
Papillon on 15 May 2000. The title track, a cover of the Young
Rascals' classic, was released as the band's first single on
17 April 2000. The album met with rave reviews reaching number
1 in the Jazz & Blues charts for 5 weeks and successfully
entered the national charts.
The latest offering from The Rhythm Kings is a fourth album
titled ‘Double Bill’ which will be released on 23
April 2001. A single taken from the album ‘Love Letters’
will be released on 30 April featuring George Harrison on slide
guitar amongst many of Bill’s other friends.
Bill Wyman is currently finishing his new book "Bill Wyman’s
Blues Odyssey" to be released by Dorling Kindersley in
October 2001
Bill Wyman and The Rhythm Kings will be going on a European
and UK tour beginning 2 May 2001 and will be visiting USA in
August.
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