Bill Wyman

Share your thoughts in a voice message on our website, soundopinions.org. Could you have predicted that Phoebe would be where she is now from where she was in 2018?

Meanwhile, Greg, what do we have on the show next week? Well, next week, Jim, we do not have Phoebe Bridgers, but we do have Bill Wyman.

I would have her every week.

Who do we have next? Who? Who? Yes, we do have Bill Wyman, who is our former sparring partner, returned to write a book.

What Bill does in his book is that he lists the top songs by about a dozen bands, from Nirvana to the Eagles to the Beatles, you name it.

We're going to argue with Bill about it.

The hidden engine started just a little to be heard.

Around the same time, you had Bill Wyman holding down the Rolling Stones with a cool, steady simplicity, and John Paul Jones in Led Zeppelin, a brilliant musician who played inventive, powerful, rock-solid bass and was, not coincidentally, the guy who also arranged a lot of Zeppelin's music.

Again and again, the bass player turns out to be one of the real musical brains of the band.

And now let me talk about my favorite, because he's the one who did it in the southern rock world I love.

And a slightly bizarre mix of celebrities also took part.

I mean, among them there was, there was Christopher Reeve, Superman, John Cleese, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, the opera singer, Cliff Richard, Bill Wyman, Tom Jones, Gary Lineker, John Travolta, Meatloaf.

I mean, [laughs] you should look it up.

The list of celebrities who took part is quite extraordinary.

Then he became a respected jazz singer and songwriter.

In the 1990s, chartered membership in former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings and an intense 10 years as touring musical director for Van Morrison.

A big band singer so popular in Scandinavia, he lived for a while in Sweden and also toured regularly in Australia with the Aussie Flames.

and a discography that encompasses 14 live albums, 50 singles, and 34 studio albums, including three on the Go Jazz Records label, plus Scandal and Tragedy, both arising from the British noblewoman Nicolette, Marchioness of Londonderry, whom he married in 1972 after she bore his child while married to the Marquis of Londonderry, and who jumped off a bridge to her death 21 years later.

The unusual instrumentation introduced several albums prior was absent, and with most of the songs featuring the regular drums, guitar, bass, and percussion as provided by, you know the names.

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Bill Wyman, and Charlie Watts.

Additional contributions were made by longtime Stones collaborators, including saxophonist Bobby Keys and keyboardist Billy Preston, Jack Nietzsche, Ian Stewart, and Nicky Hopkins.

Now, I believe we featured almost every one of them in our little-known big contribution category.