On December 7th, 1962, 26-year-old bassist Bill Wyman went to the Wetherby Arms pub in the Chelsea neighborhood of London to audition for the Rolling Stones as a possible replacement for founding member Dick Taylor. As Wyman recounts in this exclusive clip from his upcoming documentary The Quiet One, the band was initially a little skeptical he was the one for the job. “They asked me what music I liked,” said Wyman. “I said, ‘Chuck Berry’ and they said, ‘Great!’ I said, ‘Jerry Lee Lewis,’ ‘No!’ ‘Eddie Cochran,’ ‘No!’ All the rock & rollers,...
- 6/21/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Ever since he was a lad, Bill Perks Jr. was a chronic collector. Photos, books, records, flotsam and jetsam from the bombed neighborhoods of Blitz-era Britain — the skinny kid had a knack for squirreling stuff away that had sentimental value to him. He also started keeping a journal at a young age and became a bit of a teen shutterbug. The urge to hold on to things and document his daily adventures stuck with Perks — who’d changed his name to Bill Wyman — as the R&b outfit he played...
- 6/19/2019
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
When you think about a Rolling Stones documentary, you might expect sordid details about Mick Jagger’s or Keith Richards’ drug use and rampant sexual escapades, or even the backstory behind the band’s greatest hits such as “Paint It Black” or “Gimme Shelter.” Never would you consider a film that negates all those interesting tidbits to highlight the least flamboyant and popular member of the group, Bill Wyman, the taciturn bass guitarist who documented his nearly 30-year career with the quintet. But that’s what the dull “The Quiet One” does.
In all fairness, there’s already been a number of Rolling Stones films in the past that have offered a more intimate chronicle of the band’s cultural impact and controversies that are at the very least provocative. (“Shine a Light” and “Gimme Shelter” come to mind.) So, it’s not like we need another one of those.
In all fairness, there’s already been a number of Rolling Stones films in the past that have offered a more intimate chronicle of the band’s cultural impact and controversies that are at the very least provocative. (“Shine a Light” and “Gimme Shelter” come to mind.) So, it’s not like we need another one of those.
- 6/19/2019
- by Candice Frederick
- The Wrap
Bill Wyman may not have been the first bass player in the Rolling Stones, but he joined months after they formed in 1962 and stuck around from their earliest recording sessions all the way through the end of the Steel Wheels tour 30 years later. During that entire time, he was taking photos and videos that formed the basis of his 2002 book Rolling With the Stones. And now much more from his private vault is being used in the new documentary The Quiet One, in theaters June 21st.
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- 6/4/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Early in the filming of his documentary “The Quiet One,” Oliver Murray knew he had his emotional centerpiece after capturing his subject, the longtime Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman, talking about an encounter with Ray Charles. It’s a simple and quiet moment in a film packed full of tales of pop-culture upheaval, one that touchingly displays the importance of elder musicians on this particular musician’s life.
Wyman is not a man to let his emotions run wild in talking about his childhood, the pluses and minuses of being the Stone least likely to be recognized, or even his enthusiasm for photography and filmmaking. He’s clearly the quiet one for a reason.
Murray, a music video director making his feature debut with “The Quite One,” neatly assembles a chronology of Wyman’s life heavy on still photographs and plenty of Super 8 footage that the musician took himself.
Wyman is not a man to let his emotions run wild in talking about his childhood, the pluses and minuses of being the Stone least likely to be recognized, or even his enthusiasm for photography and filmmaking. He’s clearly the quiet one for a reason.
Murray, a music video director making his feature debut with “The Quite One,” neatly assembles a chronology of Wyman’s life heavy on still photographs and plenty of Super 8 footage that the musician took himself.
- 5/3/2019
- by Phil Gallo
- Variety Film + TV
An underdeveloped look at the life of the former Rolling Stone has led to outrage over its portrayal of an alleged sexual predator
It should probably surprise no one that a new documentary about “the quiet” Rolling Stone, Bill Wyman, has kicked up a controversy over what it doesn’t say rather than what it does. Last month, a planned showing of the Oliver Murray-directed film The Quiet One at the Sheffield Doc/Fest drew outrage, and was cancelled, due to what was seen as its insufficient probing of Wyman’s 1989 marriage to Mandy Smith, who was 18 at the time, but whom he began allegedly grooming when she was five years younger than that.. Back then, the story raised some eyebrows in the Us, and inspired reams of harrumphing coverage in the British tabloids, but not quite the censorious outrage it might have received today.
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It should probably surprise no one that a new documentary about “the quiet” Rolling Stone, Bill Wyman, has kicked up a controversy over what it doesn’t say rather than what it does. Last month, a planned showing of the Oliver Murray-directed film The Quiet One at the Sheffield Doc/Fest drew outrage, and was cancelled, due to what was seen as its insufficient probing of Wyman’s 1989 marriage to Mandy Smith, who was 18 at the time, but whom he began allegedly grooming when she was five years younger than that.. Back then, the story raised some eyebrows in the Us, and inspired reams of harrumphing coverage in the British tabloids, but not quite the censorious outrage it might have received today.
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- 5/3/2019
- by Jim Farber
- The Guardian - Film News
European premiere of The Quiet One is cancelled after complaints about the former Rolling Stone’s alleged grooming of his second wife, Mandy Smith, when she was a child
A new documentary about former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman has been dropped from the programme of the forthcoming Sheffield Doc/Fest following protests about the circumstances of Wyman’s second marriage.
The Quiet One, which is billed as “a first-hand journey through Wyman’s extraordinary experiences”, is director Oliver Murray’s first feature and utilises the bassist’s collection of extensive diaries, as well as photos and videos.
A new documentary about former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman has been dropped from the programme of the forthcoming Sheffield Doc/Fest following protests about the circumstances of Wyman’s second marriage.
The Quiet One, which is billed as “a first-hand journey through Wyman’s extraordinary experiences”, is director Oliver Murray’s first feature and utilises the bassist’s collection of extensive diaries, as well as photos and videos.
- 4/8/2019
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Exclusive: The Quiet One, the feature doc about former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman, has had its European premiere pulled by the Sheffield Doc/Fest.
The film, which is directed by Oliver Murray, was due to screen at the British documentary festival, held in the northern UK city, on June 7. Wyman, who was the bass guitarist in the (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction rockers between 1962 and 1992, was also due to appear in conversation with director Murray at the festival.
The festival confirmed to Deadline that it had cancelled the screening and the event. It is thought that the decision came after the festival received a number complaints on social media about screening the film about Wyman, particularly regarding his previous relationship with Mandy Smith, who he started dating when she was 13 and he was 47. They married when she was 18 and divorced a few years later.
The film is set to...
The film, which is directed by Oliver Murray, was due to screen at the British documentary festival, held in the northern UK city, on June 7. Wyman, who was the bass guitarist in the (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction rockers between 1962 and 1992, was also due to appear in conversation with director Murray at the festival.
The festival confirmed to Deadline that it had cancelled the screening and the event. It is thought that the decision came after the festival received a number complaints on social media about screening the film about Wyman, particularly regarding his previous relationship with Mandy Smith, who he started dating when she was 13 and he was 47. They married when she was 18 and divorced a few years later.
The film is set to...
- 3/23/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The insanitary origins of much of popular culture stretches far beyond wretched Gary Glitter
Watching Gwyneth Paltrow performing Do You Wanna Touch Me? on Glee, it is striking how a woman prowling about in black leather, making crazed "I'm hot!" faces, could still end up reminding one of Cath Kidston via Auto-Tune. Gwyneth Paltrow is not a convincing badass rock'n'roller. Who'd have guessed?
A more pressing issue is that this is a Gary Glitter song. Glitter, who was always a fifth-rate pop star, constantly making faux-shocked "ooh" faces, as if a bulldog had suddenly clamped its jaws into his silver sparkly derriere. Glitter, aka Paul Gadd, 66, the convicted paedophile, possessor of child pornography, currently banned from 19 countries.
This is the artist whose work the makers of Glee decided would be appropriate to feature on a show about singing, dancing schoolchildren, in a scene about sex education. No wonder children's charities were horrified.
Watching Gwyneth Paltrow performing Do You Wanna Touch Me? on Glee, it is striking how a woman prowling about in black leather, making crazed "I'm hot!" faces, could still end up reminding one of Cath Kidston via Auto-Tune. Gwyneth Paltrow is not a convincing badass rock'n'roller. Who'd have guessed?
A more pressing issue is that this is a Gary Glitter song. Glitter, who was always a fifth-rate pop star, constantly making faux-shocked "ooh" faces, as if a bulldog had suddenly clamped its jaws into his silver sparkly derriere. Glitter, aka Paul Gadd, 66, the convicted paedophile, possessor of child pornography, currently banned from 19 countries.
This is the artist whose work the makers of Glee decided would be appropriate to feature on a show about singing, dancing schoolchildren, in a scene about sex education. No wonder children's charities were horrified.
- 3/13/2011
- by Barbara Ellen
- The Guardian - Film News
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