But I realized that if I did that, I wouldn’t be able to do all the things I did want to do, which is like keep my diaries and do my photography - and be a family man. You know, the odd pep pill to keep awake sometimes when it was necessary, but that was about it, and the odd joint very, very early on. I did mention in the film the way the boys always tried to entice me, but I always stayed clean. Yeah, that really made me realize, and that was just because I just took a joint, which was quite rare. You relate the story of how you smoked something you believe was laced with something else, and had a bad experience looking into a mirror, and that was it for you. You were probably close to being alone in that, not just in the Stones but in the entire scene in the ‘60s. Speaking of “A Stone Alone” (the title of Wyman’s solo anthology boxed set): The movie makes a point of how you didn’t do drugs. So that’s probably why we were called the straightest rhythm section in rock ‘n’ roll. And of course, we were the first married, so we both had responsibilities, and we weren’t nightclubbing all the time like the others were and having fun in town. But Charlie and I have always been sort of laid back and very quiet. I’m not like the regular Rolling Stone sort of image that people have.Ĭharlie’s a bit like that as well. When I do speeches and things, or when I talk to my children and they tell me they love me, I get emotional. My favorite song of all time is “Georgia on My Mind,” and I’d always wanted to meet him, and there was just the one opportunity. Well, I do regard him as the greatest artist of the 20th century, although he had problems in his life. Most people might not go into this film imagining the most emotionally vulnerable part of the movie is going to be you meeting Ray Charles. The one time in the film where you are on screen in the present talking at length, you’re talking about meeting Ray Charles, and you get so emotional that your wife, Susannah, has to finish the story for you. And not in a weird way, but I wrote diaries and I was very logical. But I’ve always been very logical and very calculating, I suppose you could say. I don’t suddenly burst into doing or saying things without thinking first. Yeah, I saw how people just burst out with answers when they weren’t thinking and came to regret it. Well, I learned that from watching other people do interviews. So you weren’t necessarily leaping to be garrulous when the opportunity arose. There are some vintage interview clips in the film where someone will ask you a question and you pause an almost uncomfortably long time before you answer. There was a lot going on in my life all the time. I had an 8-month-old son when I joined the band, who I got custody of when we were divorced, and I brought him up. Also, of course, I was bringing up a child, as I was married. Because I was doing photography and interested in all kinds of ancient cultures and doing archaeology and reading lots of books on science and astronomy. Well, I had a lot going on in the background which no one knew about, obviously. We just had a cup of tea and talked about where we were going on holidays.īut the press could have gotten a lot more out of you at the time, if they’d only been asking? Charlie and I never got questioned at press conferences and all that. Interviewers used to say to me later, when I did solo records and worked in other projects, “Why didn’t you ever speak when you were in the Stones?” And I said, “Well, no one ever asked me.” They always went straight to Mick or to Brian, or later to Keith. When interviews were ever done, I was mentioned in many cases as the quiet one, the one that didn’t speak. The movie is called “The Quiet One,” so that must be an image you came to accept over time?
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