A US music journalist has received a demand from ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman that he stop signing his own name on the articles he writes, even though it's the name he was born with.
Bizarre it may seem, but the difficulty is that the journalist is also called Bill Wyman. The difference is that he was christened Bill Wyman, while the 66-year-old former rocker adopted the sobriquet – three years after the journalist was born - to replace his real name of Bill Perks.
"I must ask that you immediately cease and desist from authorising or permitting any such use of our client's name," stated the rocker's legal team in a message to the journalist after he recently used his byline for an article about the Rolling Stones band, who are on tour in the US.
The Atlanta-based writer, 41, has hit back by joking that he's the one whose name has been appropriated, but there's no hard feelings on his side: "I don't begrudge him using it and he's welcome to continue," says the 'real' Bill Wyman. "I'm hoping there can be some peaceful co-existence."
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