When the Rolling Stones were diss-Respectable to Bill Wyman…
by Mick on March 27, 2010
Although the Rolling Stones album Rarities (1971-2003) was released back in 2005, the album cover seems to be all the internet Photoshop buzz these past few days. Seems someone on a message board pointed out (and posted the visual evidence) that bassist Bill Wyman had been, well, removed from the album cover…
Above: The original image; Below: The altered image with Wyman removed.Images were posted by user “surfingelectrode” on the Steve Hoffman music forums.
The original image on top was taken from the video for “Respectable” which was done back in 1978 when Wyman was still a member of the band (in the original image you can clearly see him in the background between Mick and Keith). However, the Photoshopper forgot to remove Wyman’s bass cord and part of his leg (which you can see between Mick’s guitar and mic stand on the Rarities cover). In addition to the missing band member, the image on the Rarities cover was also horizontally compressed quite a bit from the original. (Like you really need to make the Rolling Stones look skinner than they already are?)
Hey, I know Wyman left the band in 1992 and therefore wasn’t a member in 2005 when Rarities was released – and maybe there were some touchy legal issues that we don’t know about which required his removal from the cover – but visually erasing him from Rolling Stones history is exactly something that evil dictators like to do.
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