You could put Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley on one side of the stage, and James Brown on the other, and you wouldn't even notice the others were there!

I always got great respect as a bass player.

I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.

The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?

I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.