Wyman’s 1,800-Partner Count Reframes the Stones’ Bad-Boy Legend
A new Rolling Stones biography by Bob Spitz paints the band’s offstage life as wildly rebellious, revealing Bill Wyman stopped counting his lovers at about 1,800, Mick Jagger’s numerous affairs, and Keith Richards showing a more romantic side than his bad-boy image suggests; it also covers Wyman’s controversial marriage to Mandy Smith and a web of intertwined romances among the Stones that helped fuel their infamous reputation.