Bill Wyman playing at the Liverpool Summer Pops at Kings Dock _240
The rest of the party had given up, but that was not the case when he attended the wedding of Ronnie Woods’s daughter, Leah.
“She’s my god-daughter,” he says. “At the reception, everybody was smoking – Keith (Richards), Woody. We were in good company.”
Some mention should be made of the forthcoming concert.
“I am told the Arena holds about 10,000 people,” he says. “But they are making it available at about 4,000 for us, because that is what we played here a couple of years ago in a big tent.
“It was fabulous, with a wonderful audience, who loved us to death. We are not a band who can sell 10,000 tickets.”
What about his old chums in the Stones?
“I see Charlie (Watts) all the time. We go to cricket things and lunches and dinners. I see Mick (Jagger) and Woody sometimes when they are in town for various events.
“We’ve got mutual friends. It’s like a mixed family thing. We get together every now and again. We chat about what’s happening and update each other on news.
“It’s very pleasant, but it’s like relatives. You like your Aunty Elsie and Uncle Fred, but you don’t want to see them every day of the week. You don’t want them to stay for a week.”
What about these new TV shows?
“I never watch them,” he says. “I have been invited to do Big Brother about five times, and I have had to turn down three appeals to do that bloody dancing thing.
“I have never seen these big pop things. It’s like Wilfred Pickles, isn’t it, or was it Hughie Green? Anyway, it’s just been modernised and hyped.”
So we’re back to Mr Pickles.
BILL WYMAN is at the Echo Arena Liverpool, on July 14.
