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"I aggravated it so I could drive back to London and go to the match": Bill Wyman once faked toothache to skip the Stones and watch the cup final

Bill Wyman and the FA cup final 1990.

You’d think that being part of The Rolling Stones and living the dream as part of one of their legendary world tours would be an unmissable all-time high. Turns out that that wasn’t the case and, come their 1990 Urban Jungle tour, at least one of the band would much rather have been watching Crystal Palace instead.

That’s the remarkably honest truth laid out by Bill Wyman who, in a new interview with FourFourTwo, explained that, by 1990 he’d gone as far as feigning illness in order to skip band commitments and watch the footy instead.

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