Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman has apparently reunited with the band greater than 30 years after leaving the group.
Wyman, 86, will probably be featured on a song on the Stones’ upcoming album, the Sun reported Friday, as a tribute to their late drummer Charlie Watts, who died at 80 in Aug. 2021 after a battle with throat cancer.
Lead singer Mick Jagger, 79, reportedly invited Wyman to recording sessions in Los Angeles to work on the track.
“Bill hasn’t seen the band together for years but all the time loved Charlie. This record’s really a tribute to Charlie, so he couldn’t say no,” a source told the outlet.
The late Watts’ drumming also will reportedly be featured on the record, which will probably be the Stones’ first studio release since his death.
Paul McCartney, 80, and Ringo Starr, 82, of The Beatles will reportedly play bass and drums, respectively, on the album, too.
The Post has contacted representatives for The Rolling Stones and Wyman for comment.
Wyman left the Stones in 1993 after 30 years with the band.
In 2022, he claimed that he had no regrets about doing so, though he did admit that it wasn’t the best transition.
“It was quite stressful and so they didn’t want me to depart, in order that they became bitchy,” Wyman told fellow rocker Alice Cooper on his “‘Nights with Alice Cooper” podcast.
“As an alternative of being nice and saying: ‘Great 30 years. Cheers mate,’ Mick would say essentially the most absurd, silly things, with that spoilt attitude he had. He’d say things like: ‘Oh well, if anybody has to play bass I’ll do it. It might’t be that arduous’ — and Keith [Richards] said: ‘Nobody leaves this band unless they’re in a wood box.’”
He continued: “Anyway, they left the door open for me for 2 years. Charlie and Mick would phone and say: ‘You’re probably not leaving are you? Have you ever re-thought it?’ Then when it got here time for them to do the ’94/’95 (Voodoo Lounge) tour they’d to make a final decision.
“Mick and Charlie got here over and spent the evening with me, attempting to talk me into staying. Have I had any regrets about not going back? None in anyway,” he claimed.
The Stones released their last studio, “Blue & Lonesome,” in 2016.
