Library Rock's Backpages

Bill Wyman Solo: It's Me, Such As I Am

Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 6 June 1974

THE NIGHT BEFORE, Bill Wyman had been in a studio making a short promotional film for his debut solo album, Monkey Grip, released May 15th. After the shooting he hung around with the crew until dawn, chatting about this technical point and that, much of the detail new to him – for as Wyman explained, with the Stones, once the basic recording is over, he and Charlie Watts tend to fade into the background.

Total word count of piece: 2019

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.