The World’s Boredest Man
At the time this was written, many of your glossier magazines were ridiculing Bill Wyman for having been discovered to have kept a barely pubescent Brigitte Bardot lookalike several decades his junior as his personal boytoy. But it just wasn’t fair.
The World’s Boredest Man
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John Mendelssohn
At the time this was written, many of your glossier magazines were ridiculing Bill Wyman for having been discovered to have kept a barely pubescent Brigitte Bardot lookalike several decades his junior as his personal boytoy. But it just wasn’t fair.
Well, all right. Maybe it was fair. Maybe a 52-year-old man who’d corrupt a 13year-old convent schoolgirl deserves all the ridicule that can be printed about him. But I’m here to tell you that bad Bill also deserves praise a-plenty, for his stage posture was one of the most delightfully funny things about the Rolling Stones in their glorious early days. Jagger might have bent over and wiggled his ass in the audience’s face, Brian Jones might have had the world’s most gorgeous hair, Charlie might have looked absolutely submoronic, and Keith might have been an early master of the stationary duckwalk, but bad Bill very convincingly played the boredest man in the world.