{"id":804722,"date":"2020-02-28T08:38:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T15:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=959116"},"modified":"2020-02-28T08:38:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T15:38:59","slug":"the-rolling-stones-behind-the-scenes-intimate-photos-from-bill-wymans-personal-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/the-rolling-stones-behind-the-scenes-intimate-photos-from-bill-wymans-personal-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rolling Stones Behind the Scenes: Intimate Photos From Bill Wyman\u2019s Personal Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cI took photos long before I was a musician,\u201d former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman<\/a> tells Rolling Stone. <\/em>\u201cI started out using an old Brownie box camera my uncle Jack Jeffrey gave me as a boy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photography followed Wyman into his music career (\u201cI find photography and music similar mathematically,\u201d he says) and once the Stones\u2019 career took off, he was regularly shooting his bandmates and his famous friends. He has now compiled some of these photos into a new folio, Stones From the Inside: Rare and Unseen Images <\/em>\u2014 out now from ACC Art Books \u2014 which contains snaps stretching from the Sixties into the late Eighties.<\/p>\n

Many of his shots of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and others were caught on the fly between tour dates, at filmings, and in recording studios. \u201cI always found that a subject could be captured more naturally if they were not aware of the camera,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Wyman originally picked up photography as a means of illustrating his daily life, like a diary, to keep a record for his son Stephen, who was born in 1962. Later, he turned to photography to pass the time between gigs. His favorite photographers growing up were his uncle Jack and his friend Jack Oliver, who taught him to develop and print photos; later he drew inspiration from Terry O\u2019Neill, Ethan Russell, Gered Mankowitz, and Steve Hiett. He\u2019s even inspired by photos of himself. \u201cEven now, I look back at the Stones photos by the great Ken Regan,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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The bassist, now age 83, decided he had had enough touring with the Stones after the band\u2019s massive Steel Wheels and Urban Jungle tours in 1989 and 1990, announcing his departure from the group in 1993, after which he turned his focus to his solo music career. He now plays with his own band, Bill Wyman\u2019s Rhythm Kings, which put out a record in 2018, and he put out his last solo LP, Back to Basics<\/em>, in 2015. He hopes to have some new music ready for release soon. \u201cI have lots of song demos on the shelf, some pretty much finished,\u201d he says. \u201cAlso, I have plans to produce other artists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also, if the Stones From the Inside<\/em> book is a hit, he says he could put out another book like it. \u201cI\u2019m hoping with the success of this, my 10th book, that the next one will be another photography book, Stones II From the Inside<\/em>, or a book of my nature photos,\u201d he says. \u201cMy brain still buzzes nonstop with projects.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the meantime, here is a collection of some of the book\u2019s most striking photos, along with Wyman\u2019s commentary.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI took photos long before I was a musician,\u201d former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman tells Rolling Stone. \u201cI started out using an old Brownie box camera my uncle Jack Jeffrey gave me as a boy.\u201d Photography followed Wyman into his music career (\u201cI find photography and music similar mathematically,\u201d he says) and once the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-20 08:11:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}