“She had scratches on the side of her face. I said, ‘What happened?’She said, ‘Oh nothing, Keith threw the cat at me’”: Bill Wyman on Jimi Hendrix’s brilliance, Keith Moon’s madness and Mick Jagger’s brutal reaction to him leaving the Rolling Stones

Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman posing for a photograph in 1969.

Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman was the heartbeat of The World’s Greatest Rock’N’Roll Band for more than 30 years, an integral part of the line-up as they rose scrappy British R&B rebels to become one of the most successful and recognisable groups on the planet.

He may have left the band in 1993, but Wyman remained active in music with his passion project Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings, the band he founded in 1997 and featured guitar hero Albert Lee, American R&B king Gary U.S. Bonds and British pianist Georgie Fame, among others.