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Bill Wyman's "Digital Daydreams" DVD
Classic Pictures Entertainment is proud to present.... Digital Daydreams "Rolling Stone", Bill Wyman crosses the fine line between dreams and reality when his passion for documenting his life on computer is seen as an obsession by those around him. A rich, full tapestry of life and times of Bill Wyman through which are woven whimsical fantasty sequences, historical slices of his career with the world's greatest rock'n'roll band ever, The Rolling Stones, and intimate psycho-dramatic glimpses behind the public mask of this superstar. A limited edition, of what was then known as the film "Digital Dreams" was originally produced in 1983, following the massive Stones tours at the dawm of the eighties. Bill Wyman, already confirmed as the eternal archivist, purchased a computer that made him one of the first people in the UK to own an Apple home computer. "It had just about enough memory to put half your address book on it" Wyman jokes, "but at the time it was quite magical and I started to enter my diaries and the whole history of the Stones". He then began to recall more and more memories of his childhood, which ultimately provoked the concept for what was to become a full lenght feature film containing music, drama, comedy, fantasy, and historical content. It's a film laden with an all star cast by none other than Bill himself, the late - great Hollywood legend James Coburn and the exceptional Richard OīBrian. References paying tribute to classics such as "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" and "Doctor Zhivago" are also threated into the screenplay. "It never crossed my mind to get into some serious acting career, but it was fun to be able to get away with a few things", says Wyman, "itīs all based on moments in my life, but in a tongue in cheek way, a slightly adapted life story, with some artistic licence of course". Speaking in somewhat of a reminiscent mood Bill adds "I was able to get a lot of my favourite people of the time into the script"; "Itīs a glorified home move, made just for fun". Playing alongside Bill is Astrid Lundström, the self proclaimed computer widow, and girlfriend of Bill Wyman for 16― years. "We were actually in the process of breaking up while the film was being shot", he explains, "we had gone through some difficult times, and I thought we could do the film and put it together but it didn't really work!. Richard OīBrien of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and "Crystal Maze" fame is heavily featured throughout the movie and also adopted the position of screenplay writer. "I played a kind of butler figure, an orchestra leader, and a kind of strange horseback figure at one stage" says OīBrien "itīs surreal, itīs an art movie". Wyman adds further light to film masking process by confirming "It wasnīt a script that was set in stone at all; it was very adlibbed all the way through". Wyman recruited an electric group of fascinating prsonalites to complete the cast ist in "Digital Daydreams" such as the late Stanley Unwin, well known for his gobbledy-gook speak, who famously glaszed the Small Facesī "Ogdenīs Nut Gone Flake" album with his own inimitable narration and world famous astronomer and TV presenter Sir Patrick Moore. Scenes are lovlingly connected with animation sequences from the expertise of Gerald "The Wall" Scarfe and complemented by wonderful themes and orchestrations from film score prodigly Mike Bratt, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. Additional tracks featured include the Stonesī classics "Satisfaction", "Street Fighting Man", "Miss You", and "Jumpinī Jack Flash". Rolling Stone, Charlie Watts and Stranglers member Jean Jacques Burnel feature briefly in scenes shot at the family home in Gedding, Suffolk, yet Wyman admits "we didnīt want to fill it with cameo parts its just so happens they were hanging around at the time". Un-earthed from Billīs archives over 20 years later, the film, now renamed, re-cut and remastered at Shepperton Film Studios, UK will surely provoke interest and intrique for music and film fans on many levels. Starring:
Bill Wyman, James Coburn, Richard OīBrien Special Features: The making of Digital Daydreams; Documentary featuring interviews with Bill Wyman, Gerald Scarfe, richard OīBrien and Mike Bratt
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