BS: Rock 'n' roll retirement hall of fame

Subject: Rock 'n' roll retirement hall of fame
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 24 Oct 01 - 06:47 AM

Saw this on the DT website while looking at the Matt cartoon:

Wednesday 24 October 2001 From rock'n'roll to rocking chair, Bill Wyman at 65
By Hugh Davies, Entertainment Correspondent (Filed: 24/10/2001)

BILL WYMAN, 65 today, has become the first of Britain's rock 'n' roll pensioners.

The former Rolling Stones bass player says he will celebrate his birthday privately on holiday with his third wife, Suzanne Accosta, and their three children, Katie, seven, Jessica, five, and Matilda, three.

Wyman achieves eligibility for a concessionary bus pass ahead of Tommy Steele, who will be 65 on Dec 17 - 45 years after his UK chart debut with Rock With The Cavemen.

Steele became Britain's "teenage idol", as the New Musical Express noted at the time, without the "violent, hip-swinging and crude exhibitionism" of his arch rival Cliff Richard, who was 61 last week.

Richard's band at the time, the Drifters (later the Shadows) included Bruce Welch, who will be 61 next week, and Hank Marvin, 60 on Sunday.

Wyman is still reasonably well preserved, possibly because his early addiction was to women rather than drugs. He claimed to have slept with 278 women in just two years during the mid-1960s. He also married a 19-year-old when he was 53.

He left the Stones after 31 years, but still tours with his Rhythm Kings, who include Georgie Fame, Gary Brooker of Procul Harum and Albert Lee.

Wyman's former Stones' colleagues are also approaching bus pass age. Mick Jagger is 58, Keith Richards, 57, Ronnie Woods, 54, and Charlie Watts, 60. However, on a global scale, Wyman remains a stripling.

Chuck Berry still duck-walks across the stage at 75 and Fats Domino, soon 74, often sings in New Orleans. At 66, Jerry Lee Lewis pounds the piano at B B King's Club in Memphis and Little Richard, 65, often joins him.
(c)Daily Telegraph Online

RtS (somewhere between Keith and Mick in age)

Subject: RE: BS: Rock 'n' roll retirement hall of fame
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 24 Oct 01 - 07:41 AM

Nice one, Rog! Nuff said.

Skipjack

Subject: RE: BS: Rock 'n' roll retirement hall of fame
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 24 Oct 01 - 07:55 AM

Mick still has an incredible amount of energy. Dylan is 60 and apparently his shows are the best they've been in years, his new album has a lot of full speed ahead songs on it. How do these guys, and many others who haven't been mentioned, keep going at the pace they do?

Subject: RE: BS: Rock 'n' roll retirement hall of fame
From: 53
Date: 24 Oct 01 - 11:55 AM

i reckon that when they started the band they had no idea of how long it would last, just as the beatles song says, will you still love me when i'm 64?

Subject: RE: BS: Rock 'n' roll retirement hall of fame
From: 53
Date: 24 Oct 01 - 11:11 PM

what's wrong with you mudcatters? are you scared of rock an roll? i'm sure that they have a folk music hall of fame. don't they, but i know it's not in cleveland.

Subject: RE: BS: Rock 'n' roll retirement hall of fame
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 25 Oct 01 - 07:58 AM

53,

I think we're all a little afraid to acknowledge this. Heck, if these guys are that age and I was alive when they started out, I must be getting awfully close to 30.

As Dylan says on his latest, "the future, for me, is already a thing of the past". I don't think any of us want to face that head on.

Subject: RE: BS: Rock 'n' roll retirement hall of fame
From: 53
Date: 25 Oct 01 - 01:56 PM

yep

Subject: RE: BS: Rock 'n' roll retirement hall of fame
From: DancingMom
Date: 25 Oct 01 - 10:24 PM

I still think Charlie Watts is a hottie.

Subject: RE: BS: Rock 'n' roll retirement hall of fame
From: radriano
Date: 26 Oct 01 - 11:26 AM

So much for Mudcat being dedicated to blues and folk music.

Subject: RE: BS: Rock 'n' roll retirement hall of fame
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 26 Oct 01 - 12:18 PM

Hey "Rad", the thread is about (primarily) Bill Wyman. Do you have any idea what kind of music Bill became POSITIVELY OBSESSED by in his formative years? Do you know why he gravitated to Brian Jones? Do you know WHAT the Stones were known as, before they became famous?

Blues, Blues, and more Blues.

Cheers

Rick

Subject: RE: BS: Rock 'n' roll retirement hall of fame
From: GUEST,Fortunato, Back in the Grind
Date: 26 Oct 01 - 01:01 PM

It was a zombie jamboree
Took place in the London cemetery
Rock 'N Roll Zombie jamboree
Mick and Keith, Charlie and Ronnie


Rock 'N Roll Zombies dug up for the show
Some of them famous, names you know
Bill Wyman was the king of the carnival
They got together in bacchanal
And they were singing:

Chorus
Back to back, mon, belly to belly
I don't give a damn 'cause I'm stone dead already
Oh, back to back, belly to belly
It's a zombie jamboree.