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Bill Wyman: “Mick and Keith were totally wealthy, but me, Charlie and Ronnie were scraping by” at height of The Rolling Stones’ fame

Bill Wyman has opened up about his time in Rolling Stones, revealing that he and some of his bandmates were struggling financially.

Wyman continued: “ Mick [Jagger] and Keith [Richards] were totally wealthy, so they weren’t bothered, but me, Charlie [Watts] and Ronnie [Wood] were scraping by. He went on to say that former Stones guitarist Brian Jones was over £30,000 in debt when he died in 1969, and added: “When I bought that manor in Suffolk I had a thousand pounds in the bank, had to scrape together a mortgage and hope I could continue to make enough money to keep it. He explained that he’d “had enough” and wanted to do other things, from writing books to playing charity cricket to indulging in his passion for archaeology: “I used to read about ancient cultures while I was on the road and take photos as well.

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