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“... of them: ‘Jimi would be the macho man, Mitch the bouncy type, and I’d be the quiet one.’ Bill Wyman, it emerges from the two Stones books, was originally hired for a certain unique stage presence only he at the time could contribute: a decent set of amplifiers. The bassist knows the rest of the band can’t do without him, and also knows the ...”

“... and pursued an unlikely friendship with his Riviera neighbour, the Rolling Stones bass-player, Bill Wyman. It’s ironic that Fiddler on the Roof contributed so heavily to the artist’s myth: the musical represented the ultimate embourgeoisement of Yiddish modernism and Granovsky’s revolutionary Yiddish theatre. Chagall never forgot the theatre he ...”

“... macerated in phlegm. He had the genial, tannin glaze of a resting Stone: Ronnie Wood morphing into Bill Wyman. A heavy silver wedding ring. The ever-present mobile phone. I’d given Mr Nice a first reading. And that’s how Marks presented himself. How he charmed the uncharmable, the warders at Terre Haute Penitentiary: his ‘usual trick of being ...”

“... Tulip Siddiq for six months (another member of Siddiq’s team had been seconded from Oliver Wyman, a City consultancy that has since been hired to work on the National Wealth Fund, which will draw on private financing to build infrastructure). At Global Counsel’s reception during Labour Party Conference, held in an upmarket Liverpool hotel, I met ...”

“... United Arab Emirates. While the animals starved on the farm, the payments were used to meet the bill for Vega’s wedding party. This may have been the most brazen of the brothers’ acts of state capture, but not the most important: their manoeuvrings hobbled the South African taxation agency’s revenue collection abilities and bankrupted state-owned ...”

“... sojourn at Lake Arrowhead. Temporarily without work himself, he had come along with his wife, Jane Wyman, on location to shoot The Yearling. He took out a motorboat, communed with his conscience, and saw that something in America had gone badly wrong. Was he meant to be a leader more than an actor, and might his second career pass through leadership of ...”