Bill Wyman Still Dreams of Being on Tour with Rolling Stones

Bill
Wyman
said
he
still
dreams
of
being
on
tour
with
the

Rolling
Stones,
even
though
he
left
the
band
over
three
decades
ago.

And
he
added
that
he’d
quit
two
years
earlier
than
official
records
say
he
did
–
and
it
had
taken
his
colleagues
that
long
to
accept
his
decision.

The
Stones will

commence
a
new
North
American
tour
tonight
(April
28),
but
87-year-old
Wyman
reported
he’d
be
in
one
of
his
three
homes
(two
in
the
U.K.
and
one
in
France)
when

Mick
Jagger,

Keith
Richards
and

Ronnie
Wood
hit
the
stage.

“The
weird
thing
is
ever
since
I’ve
left,
up
until
the
present
day,
I
still
dream
I’m
on
tour,
like
we’re
in
a
dressing
room
or
we’re
in
a
hotel,”
Wyman
told
the


Mirror
in
a
new
interview.
“I
still
dream
those
dreams,
and
I
dream
of
other
friends
like

David
Bowie.
They’re
all
very
nice
but
very
confusing.”

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Discussing
his
departure,
Wyman
reported:
“I
left
in
1991
–
but
they
would
not
believe
me!
They
refused
to
accept
I
had
left.
It
wasn’t
until
1993,
when
they
were
starting
to
get
together
to
tour
in
1994,
when
they
said,
‘You
have
actually
now
left,
haven’t
you?’
And
I
said,
‘I
left
two
years
ago.’
They
finally
accepted
it,
so
they
say
I
left
in
1993.”

He
explained:
“I
just
had
enough.
It
was
half
my
life
and
I
thought,
‘I
have
got
other
things
I
want
to
do.’
I
wanted
to
do
archaeology,
write
books,
have
photo
exhibitions
and
play
charity
cricket.
I
used
to
read
about
ancient
cultures
while
I
was
on
the
road,
and
take
photos
as
well.
I
just
had
this
whole
other
life
I
wanted
to
live.”

Bill
Wyman
Recalls
Rolling
Stones’
Early
Financial
Struggles

An
avid
collector
–
especially
of
memorabilia
relating
to
British
cartoon
character
Rupert
the
Bear
–
Wyman
said
he’d
kept
a
large
amount
of
material
relating
to
his
musical
career.
“I’ve
got
a
library
that
I
created
of
everything
that
has
happened
to
me.
I
wanted
to
keep
an
archive
of
the
Stones
to
show
my
son
I
was
once
in
a
band.”

And
while
he
and
his
former
colleagues
have
nothing
to
worry
about
in
financial
terms,
he
recalled
that
it
wasn’t
the
same
when
they
started
out
in
1960.
“There
was
no
money
for
a
year
or
more,”
he
said.
“We
used
to
play
gigs
for
£2…
we
were
a
blues
band
and
the
blues
was
not
popular.
…
Those
lucrative
years
came
much,
much
later.

“We
first
went
to
America
in
June,
1964
and
nobody
had
heard
of
us.”