“It was just full of guitars, and there was no air in it. No spaces, no gaps”: Bill Wyman reunited with his old Rolling Stones bandmates on their Hackney Diamonds album, but didn’t like the track he played on

For Hackney Diamonds, their first album of new material in 18 years, the Rolling Stones recruited a number of bassists to fill in for the absent Darryl Jones.

Aside from Stones guitarists Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood, the four-string seat was also filled by the album’s producer, Andrew Watt, Paul McCartney, and, in an interesting twist, their former bassist, Bill Wyman.

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