There is a saying that goes something like 'never meet your heroes', but sometimes you simply can't help it. Having engaged in a spot of shopping in Peter Jones I found myself wandering down the King's Road in Chelsea, en route to a place called Gail's, a small, but perfectly formed, cafe. As I walked in, I stepped aside to let somebody out and that person just so happened to be the former Rolling Stone, Bill Wyman.
The trouble with meeting your heroes, of course, is that you never know what to say to them until it's too late. I said I'd been reading a book about the Rolling Stones, to which he replied 'which one?' and I mentioned this large coffee table book round at my sister's house in Carshalton. I forgot to mention the book 1971 by David Hepworth in which the Rolling Stones' move to France (to become 'tax exiles') was discussed alongside the band's decision to set up its own label, release Brown Sugar and, in Mick Jagger's case, get married to Bianca Jagger, but there was no time.
Wyman, now 83, and the oldest member of the Rolling Stones (he left in the early 90s) lives in Gedding Hall near Bury St Edmund's in Suffolk, but I'm guessing he has a place in central London too as I can't imagine him driving home to East Anglia tonight.
What a guy! "Pleasure meeting you, Bill," I said and we parted company.
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| Bill Wyman, what a guy! |
Wyman, now 83, and the oldest member of the Rolling Stones (he left in the early 90s) lives in Gedding Hall near Bury St Edmund's in Suffolk, but I'm guessing he has a place in central London too as I can't imagine him driving home to East Anglia tonight.
What a guy! "Pleasure meeting you, Bill," I said and we parted company.
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