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Former\u00a0Rolling Stones<\/strong> bassist Bill Wyman<\/strong> doesn\u2019t have any regrets about leaving the band in 1993. In fact, in an interview with <\/span>Classic Rock<\/strong><\/span><\/em> magazine<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, he suggests he stuck around a bit too long.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Well, I should\u2019ve done it a lot earlier \u2026 in the eighties,” he says. \u201cI hung on for a three-tour ending across \u201989 and \u201990, after seven years of nothing, and I\u2019d ended up with a bank overdraft of 200,000 pounds because we weren\u2019t earning anything.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Wyman was referring to the three legs of the Steel Wheels\/Urban Jungle tour, which was the longest tour the band had done at that point.<\/span><\/p>\n

He goes on to say money problems weren\u2019t an issue for everyone in\u00a0the band, noting Mick Jagger<\/strong> and Keith Richards<\/strong> \u201cwere totally wealthy, so they weren\u2019t bothered,”\u00a0but he, Charlie Watts<\/strong> and Ronnie Wood<\/strong> “were scraping by.”\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Anyway, I only started playing with them again in the hope it\u2019d only be a couple of years, because I had all these other things I wanted to do,” he says.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wyman also\u00a0brought up money issues when discussing the band\u2019s decision to leave the U.K. in 1971 because of a 93% tax, sharing they owed so much that “we could never make enough to pay it back.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“We had no f***** money,” he says, although Mick and Keith were better off because of their songwriting and publishing.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re in the red with your bank, so you weren\u2019t partying all the time, you were worrying about how to pay your bills,” he said. “It was a nightmare.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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