http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,5506606%255E2902,0 0.html Stone loses cool over double Bill 18nov02
FORMER Rolling Stone Bill Wyman has threatened a US journalist with legal action because he shares the same name as the musician. The star's lawyers have ordered the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter to "cease and desist" writing under his birth name. They said he could only use it if he added a disclaimer to everything he wrote clearly indicating he is not the same Bill Wyman who was a member of the Rolling Stones. The legal threat came after the reporter penned an article about old Rolling Stones albums for the newspaper as part of its coverage of the band's tour date in Atlanta. The journalist has suggested using the byline "Not That Bill Wyman". But he claims to have more right to use the name than the band's former bassist, who quit the band a decade ago. The American Wyman was born in 1961, three years before the Rolling Stone changed his name from William George Perks to Bill Wyman.
