Sandra Harris Writes

  MANDY SMITH AND BILL WYMAN: THE SADDEST STORY EVER TOLD. BY SANDRA HARRIS. In a week that sees Russell Brand sentenced to ten years in prison for rape and sexual assault and David Walliams 'outed' in an ITV documentary as a sexual harasser of women, I found myself watching a different documentary, this one on YouTube called The Dark Story of Bill Wyman and Mandy Smith. It left me deeply depressed and genuinely tearful. This programme only seemed to have access to a limited number of stock photos which it showed on rotation but, by the time I realised this, I was already hooked on the story.  The tagline of Mandy's book, It's All Over Now, named for a Rolling Stones hit, reads as follows: Seduced at 13, Married at 19, Divorced by 21: My Life with the Rolling Stones. That gives you the story right there in a nutshell. Mandy was an ordinary schoolgirl of thirteen when in 1984 she accompanied her older sister Nicole to the BPI Awards, a shindig for the British R...