“When you would meet those heroes in the early days, was it ever a disappointment?
Only Chuck Berry.

Why?
You know why (laughs). Everybody in the business – 95 percent of the people in the business – are fantastic people. When we first did The T.A.M.I. Show in early ’64, James Brown, the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, they were fantastic people. They were always great, you know. They weren’t pretentious. They weren’t a bit difficult. Bo Diddley. But Chuck Berry was always so difficult and so impossible to deal with. One minute he was friendly and the next minute he wouldn’t speak to you. There’s a few like that, but they’re very few and far between”.

Bill Wyman til The Independent