The former Rolling Stones bassist opened up about his departure from the group in a new interview with the British newspaper The Mirror.
While the Rolling Stones have just kicked off their “Hackney Diamonds Tour” in Houston, a former member of the band, Bill Wymanremembered his time within this legendary group that he left more than thirty years ago.
Nostalgic dreams
But even after all these years, a small part of the musician seems to still be clinging to the rock’n’roll lifestyle lived alongside his former bandmates. In a new interview with Mirror (via UCR), he revealed that he had numerous dreams taking him back to this period of his life.
“There strange thing since I left, and until today, is that I still dream that I am on tour, that we are in the dressing rooms, or in a hotel, he confides. I still have these dreams, and I dream of other friends like David Bowie. This is all very nice, but it’s very disturbing”.
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Explaining that he left the group in 1991, he says that Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts And Ron Wood didn’t want to take his decision seriously at first. “They refused to accept that I had left. It wasn’t until 1993, when they started seeing each other to prepare for the 1994 tour, that they said, ‘You actually left, didn’t you?’ And I said, ‘I left two years ago.’ They finally accepted, but they say I left in 1993″.
Another life to live
But why did you want to leave this legendary group, after 25 years of good and loyal service and so much success? “I had just had enough, asserts Wyman. It was half my life, and I thought, ‘I want to do other things.’ I wanted to do archaeology, write books, put on photo exhibitions and play charity cricket matches. I used to read about ancient cultures when I was on the road, and take photos too. I just had this whole other life that I wanted to live”.
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But the musician has not completely erased his passage Stonesian of his memory. He actually created a library with all his memories when he was still Rockstar. “I wanted to keep archives of Stones to show my son that I had been in a group”, he confides.
At 87 years old, Bill Wyman reunited with his rocker friends on their latest album, “Hackney Diamonds”, where he agreed to put down a few bass chords on the track Live By The Sword alongside the deceased Charlie Watts. Will he go back on stage with them to play it? The question remains unanswered. For the moment, he has other fish to fry. His new book, “Billy In The Wars”, an illustrated autobiography about his childhood in London in the middle of the World War, was released a few months ago.
