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'People say I made the Stones. I didn't. They were there already. They only wanted exploiting. They were all bad boys when I found them. I just brought out the worst in them.'
Andrew Loog Oldham was nineteen years old when he discovered and became the manager and producer of an unknown band called The Rolling Stones. His radical vision transformed them from a starving south..more
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Published May 3rd 2001 by Vintage (first published May 25th 2000)
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Aug 04, 2011Kevin rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Fascinating glimpse into the life of the manager of the Rolling Stones. The guy is an interesting, ego-mad hustler, but smart as hell (he's also my favorite DJ on Sirius Satellite Radio). A lot of what he did with the Stones was taken to the nth degree later by people like Peter Grant and (especially) Malcolm McClaren with the Sex Pistols. Still this is a breezy, gossipy read with some of the most fascinating rock and roll characters ever, including the Beatles (he was their London publicist for..more
(2) I think the best word to describe this book is choppy. I have had this title on my to read list for about 3 or 4 years and I am glad I finally got to it even though I am pretty disappointed in the end. There is about zero flow here, just bits of journal entries. A little bit of of family, music and business associates make the text along with about 50% or so from Oldham himself. Lots of very fun photos help ease the pain. The third or more of the book leading up to his encounter and start of..more
Sep 13, 2007Tosh rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I love Andrew Loog Oldham. 'Stoned' is an uber-fascinating memoir of a talented man in a very gray London circ. 1950's, who helped move that city and pop culture into a world of technocolor.
For those who don't know, Oldham was the manager and record producer for the Rolling Stones circ. the 1960's. I can't think of another book that brings London culture in such sharp focus.
I quite like reading books about the music industry. This book deals with the author's life up until 1964. Interestingly about a quarter of the text consists of quotes from other people - some lifted from other books and some from interviews presumably solicited for this book. A fascinating read and I have the follow up book to read next.
Fast talkin', jive-flippin, hipster of a book. Great context and interesting characters, nice peek-a-boo to swingin' London. Great testimonials of contemporaries.
Aug 16, 2018Keith Astbury rated it really liked it
A lot of us will never forgive Oldham for his greed when it comes down to The Verve's Bitter Sweet Symphony - have a share by all means, you deserve that, but don't take it all, Andrew - but nonetheless as the manager who helped take The Rolling Stones to the very top, he has a story worth telling. And with the help of a large cast of friends and former colleagues, etc, that story is well told here. OK, Oldham maybe tries a little too hard and comes on a little bit too flowery in his style at ti..more
Dec 24, 2016Chris Taylor rated it it was amazing
I have read 3 of ALO's books. This was his first, following by 2Stoned and Stone Free.
Stoned tells how he came to know the Stones and, using a combination of strong will and connection in the Music Biz, set them on the road to stardom.
The format of the book is unique in my experience, consisting entirely of paragraphs of quotes from all the main players, backed up with a massive index.. Don't worry though, you'll be used to it after 30 minutes.
I've never been a great fan of Sixties culture (I'm..more
A tough read due in part to the herky-jerky style of interconnected and random quotes and the many dated British phrases and expressions. It does offer a great history of the period, especially as it pertains to Oldham and his connection with the Stones but.. It can get tedious and self congratulatory at times. But then again, it is about HIM.
Dec 24, 2013Gunnar Hjalmarsson rated it really liked it
Manik-þunglyndissjúklingur og tískufrík sem uppgötvaði Stones og fleiri bönd in ðe sixtís. Mjög nákvæmlega er sagt frá öllu fram að ákveðnum tíma (1964) en svo er bókin bara búin þegar mesta fúttið er að fara að byrja -- frægðin rétt að byrja og karlinn að byrja að verða illasukkaður sukkari. Semsé, þétt framan af en ferlega endaslepp.
Apr 22, 2013Sheila Judson added it
Im having a hard time getting through this book. I think the next few are a bit funnier and more in keeping with the ALO on XM radio. The book jumps around from person to person talking about Andrew.
I couldn't even finish it. The thing is lazily constructed as an 'oral history', i.e., a collection of comments and recollections from various individuals arranged according to a timeline. Surely Loog Oldham could have more to say about Brian Jones. Top marks for such an inspired title.
It was good and entertaining. Interesting life. I think I'm just rock biography done for a bit. I kept putting this down to start other things and it felt like a chore rather than a joy..Perhaps I'll revisit another time.
Took this one up expecting the same old swinging sixties anecdotes. I love to be proved wrong. A riveting and inspiring read. You can tell where the editor has slashed areas that could very well have been of much interest to us all but overall this book is a keeper.
Lucky fad !!! Unforgivable - this bum claimed all rights on Verve's Bitter Sweet Symphony because he owned the paperwork of the instrumental. Every time u hear that tune on boring commercial, Andrew is cashing in!! Sorry for him, but I consider Oldham closer to a Simon Cowell than a Phil Spector.
Jan 05, 2013Leigh Roberts rated it really liked it
One of the best books about the early 60s, full of juicy anecdotes from people who were there. He's hardly got to the Stones by the time the book finishes. On to Volume 2.
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Ottima come sempre la traduzione di Anna Mioni.
This is The Sweet Smell of Success of Rock and Roll.
Essential reading for any Stones/60s heads. Excellent soundbite contributions by key figures of the era, but Oldham's energetic, stylish prose is the star of the show.
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Background information
Born29 January 1944 (age 75)
OriginLondon, England, United Kingdom
Occupation(s)Record producer, manager, impresario, author
Associated actsRolling Stones, Small Faces, Marianne Faithfull, PP Arnold, The Nice, Charly García, Los Ratones Paranoicos

Andrew Loog Oldham (born 29 January 1944) is an English record producer, talent manager, impresario and author. He was manager and producer of The Rolling Stones from 1963 to 1967, and was noted for his flamboyant style.[1]

Early life[edit]

Loog Oldham's father, Andrew Loog, was a United States Army Air Forces lieutenant, a Texan of Dutch descent,[2] who served with the Eighth Air Force. Loog was killed in June 1943 when his B-17 bomber was shot down over the English Channel, and he was buried at the Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial in Belgium. Oldham's Australian mother, Celia Oldham,[3] was a nurse and comptometer operator. Loog Oldham attended the Aylesbury School for Boys, Cokethorpe School in Oxfordshire, St Marylebone Grammar School and Wellingborough School in Northamptonshire.[4]

A self-proclaimed hustler, Loog Oldham spent teenage summers swindling tourists in French towns.[5] His interest in the pop culture of the 1960s and the Soho coffeehouse scene led to working for Carnaby Streetmod designer John Stephen and later as an assistant to then-emerging fashion designer Mary Quant.[6] Oldham became a publicist for British and American musicians and for producer Joe Meek.[1] Among his projects were stints publicizing both Bob Dylan (on his first UK visit) and the Beatles (for Brian Epstein) in early 1963.[7]

The Rolling Stones[edit]

In April 1963, a journalist friend recommended that Oldham see a young R&B band called the Rolling Stones. Sure cuts alot pro crack. Oldham saw potential in the group being positioned as an 'anti-Beatles' - a rougher group compared to the 'cuddly moptop' image of the Beatles at that time.[8] Oldham, still a teenager, rapidly acquired a seasoned business partner (Eric Easton) and took over management of the Stones who had been informally represented by Giorgio Gomelsky.[1][9] Oldham had previously been business partners with Peter Meaden, first manager of the Who, but they had fallen out.[citation needed] Oldham signed recording rights to the Stones to Decca, targeting A&R head Dick Rowe, who had earlier declined to sign the Beatles.[10]

Among strategies devised and executed by Oldham to propel the group to success:

  • reassigning Ian Stewart from onstage keyboard player in May 1963 to studio-only play. This was to keep their public appearance as a five-man group of slender young men; Oldham said that six was too many and Stewart was 3-5 years older than four of the five band members (although Bill Wyman is almost two years older than Stewart). Stewart stayed on as the road manager and continued to contribute keyboard parts to the band's recordings and live performances, and remained an influence.[11][12]
  • bringing John Lennon and Paul McCartney to the recording studio, which led to their song 'I Wanna Be Your Man' becoming the Rolling Stones' second single;[13]
  • encouraging Mick Jagger and Keith Richards to start writing their own songs ('Tell Me' was their first);[14] and
  • promoting a 'bad boy' image for the Rolling Stones in contrast to the Beatles. Oldham generated widely reprinted headlines like 'Would You Let Your Sister Go with a Rolling Stone?' and provocative album-cover notes, such as a satirical incitement to fans to mug a blind beggar for funds to buy the album. This quote can be found on the back of some issues of the Rolling Stones No. 2 LP. [15][better source needed]

Oldham and Eric Easton negotiated a recording contract which was very favourable to themselves. Instead of having the Stones sign directly with Decca they set up a company, Impact Sound, which retained ownership of the group's master tapes, which were then leased to Decca—an idea learned from Phil Spector. Impact Sound received a 14% royalty from Decca but paid only 6% to the Stones, out of which Oldham and Eric Easton received a 25% management fee.[16][17]

Oldham produced all Rolling Stones recordings from 1963 until late 1967 despite having no previous experience as a producer. According to the Rolling Stones' website 'Accounts regarding the value of his musical input to the Stones recordings vary, from negligible to absolute zero'. Though lacking technical expertise in the studio, it is thought that Oldham was good at seeing the 'big picture' of the Rolling Stones' image and sound. He discovered Marianne Faithfull at a party, giving her Jagger and Richards' 'As Tears Go By' to record. He also developed other studio talent with his Andrew Oldham Orchestra,[1] in which Rolling Stones as well as London session players (including Steve Marriott on harmonica) recorded pop covers and instrumentals. As his success increased, Oldham thrived on a reputation as a garrulous, androgynous gangster who wore makeup and sunglasses and relied on his bodyguard 'Reg' to threaten rivals.[4]

Oldham put an advert in the Melody Maker that compared Cilla Black's version of 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' unfavourably with the competing original by The Righteous Brothers.[18]

In 1965 Oldham hired Allen Klein as his business manager. On Oldham's behalf Klein renegotiated the Rolling Stones' contract with Decca, excluding Oldham's partner, Eric Easton.[19] But over the next two years Oldham's relations with the Stones were strained by his drug use and inattention to the group's needs. When Jagger and Richards were arrested for drug possession in 1967, instead of devising a strategy for their legal defence and public relations, Oldham fled to the United States, leaving Klein to deal with the problem.[20] Oldham was forced to resign as manager of the Rolling Stones in late 1967 and sold his rights to the group's music to Allen Klein the following year.[21]

Immediate Records[edit]

In 1965, Oldham set up Immediate Records, among the first independent labels in the UK.[1] Among the artists that he signed and/or produced or guided were PP Arnold, Chris Farlowe, the Small Faces, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Rod Stewart, the Nice, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Amen Corner, the McCoys, the Strangeloves, Humble Pie and Duncan Browne.[22]

With Arthur Greenslade he was credited as the co-writer of 'Headlines', the B-side of 'Ride on Baby' (IM 038), by Chris Farlowe, which was released in October 1966.[23]

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Oldham also helped Derek Taylor publicise the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds (1966) album by publishing advertisements praising the album. He enlisted songwriter Billy Nicholls to record a British response, the album Would You Believe? (1968). After the Small Faces disbanded in 1969, he put together Humble Pie, featuring Steve Marriott (formerly of the Small Faces) and Peter Frampton (formerly of the Herd).[citation needed]

In the 1970s and 1980s, Oldham worked primarily in the United States. He produced Donovan, Gene Pitney and other artists.[1] In the mid-1980s, he made Colombia his primary residence after marrying Esther Farfan, a Colombian model. There he briefly worked with some Colombian bands.[5]

Later career[edit]

A recording by the Andrew Oldham Orchestra was rediscovered in the 1990s when the Verve used a string loop based on the orchestral arrangement of the Rolling Stones song 'The Last Time' in their song 'Bitter Sweet Symphony'; in the ensuing court battle, songwriting royalties for the Verve track were awarded to Allen Klein's ABKCO Records, the owner of the copyright for 'The Last Time'.[24]

Oldham co-wrote a biography of ABBA in the 1990s[25] and three autobiographies: Stoned (1998), 2Stoned (2001), and Rolling Stoned (2011) in which he and other music figures recount his days as a manager, producer and impresario.[26] He was inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.[27]

In 2005, Oldham thanked the drug rehab organisation Narconon for saving his life from his cocaine addiction.[28] That same year, he was recruited by Steven Van Zandt to host a radio show on Van Zandt's Underground Garage radio channel heard in North America on Sirius Satellite Radio. Oldham has a three-hour show on weekdays and a four-hour weekend show. Since 2006, he has worked with the Argentine musician Charly García. In 2008, he worked on the production of Los Ratones Paranoicos' new album.[29] In 2008, he produced and arranged Canadian singer Wyckham Porteous's album 3 A.M. and has been managing and working with the Colombian rock artist Juan Galeano.

In 2014, Oldham overheard Canadian artist Ché Aimee Dorval singing backup on a friend's track he was helping to produce, and he subsequently signed her to his label.[30] In September 2014, Oldham's label released Dorval's second studio EP, Volume One. She was also given two covers to sing on his recently released (2013) album consisting of Rolling Stones' songs entitled Andrew Oldham Orchestra and Friends play the Rolling Stones Songbook Vol. 1.[31] Dorval sang 'As Tears Go By' and 'Under My Thumb'.

'Andrew's Blues'[edit]

The song 'Andrew's Blues', sung by the Rolling Stones and appearing on the Black Box collection CD1,[32][33] is a humorous if scathing evocation of Oldham.[34]

References[edit]

  1. ^ abcdefJason Ankeny (29 January 1944). 'Andrew Loog Oldham Biography'. AllMusic. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
  2. ^Rej, Bent (2006). The Rolling Stones: in the beginning. Great Britain: Firefly Books Ltd. p. 298. ISBN978-1-55407-230-9.
  3. ^Goodman, Fred (2015), Allen Klein: The Man Who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, 978-0-547-89686-1, p. 81
  4. ^ abLoog Oldham, Andrew (2000). Stoned. Secker & Warburg. ISBN0-09-928467-7.
  5. ^ abHenry Mance (8 April 2016). 'UK to Colombia: the man who discovered The Rolling Stones'. Financial Times. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
  6. ^Goodman 2015, p. 83.
  7. ^Goodman 2015, pp. 84, 86.
  8. ^Rej 2006, pp. 298-300.
  9. ^Goodman 2015, pp. 87-90.
  10. ^Goodman 2015, p. 90.
  11. ^Richards, Keith (2010). Life. USA: Little, Brown and Company. p. 129. ISBN978-0-316-03438-8.
  12. ^Goodman 2015, p. 92.
  13. ^Goodman 2015, p. 93.
  14. ^Goodman 2015, p. 96.
  15. ^Goodman 2015, pp. 93-94.
  16. ^Goodman 2015, pp. 86, 90.
  17. ^rej 2006, p. 298.
  18. ^Medhurst, Andy. 'Why Cilla Black was more than a light entertainer'. OpenLearn. The Open University. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  19. ^Goodman 2015, pp. 77-81,101-109.
  20. ^Goodman 2015, pp. 138-141.
  21. ^Goodman 2015, pp. 144-151.
  22. ^'Breaking News: The Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra is back!'. Everybodymustgetstoned.net. Archived from the original on 16 September 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  23. ^'Chris Farlowe - Ride On Baby (Vinyl) at Discogs'. Discogs.com. 27 October 1966. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  24. ^Goodman 2015, pp. 265-267.
  25. ^'ABBA: The Name of the Game: Andrew Oldham, Tony Calder, Colin Irwin: 9780330346887: Amazon.com: Books'. Amazon.com. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  26. ^'Rolling Stoned, by Andrew Loog Oldham'. Gegensatzpress.com. 13 July 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  27. ^'Andrew Loog Oldham: inducted in 2014 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum'. Rockhall.com. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
  28. ^'Scientologists will 'purify' drug addicts - for £15,000'. The Guardian. 27 March 2005. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
  29. ^[1]Archived 17 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  30. ^'About Ché'. Ché Aimee Dorval website. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  31. ^Oldham, Andrew Loog. 'Andrew Oldham Orchestra and Friends Play The Rolling Stones Songbook Vol. 2'. iTunes Store.
  32. ^Stansted Montfichet. 'Black Box - The Rolling Stones Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards'. AllMusic. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  33. ^'Rolling Stones* - Black Box (CD) at Discogs'. Discogs.com. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  34. ^'The Rolling Stones - ANDREW'S BLUES (AKA SONG FOR ANDREW) lyrics'. Burbler.com. 1 November 1999. Archived from the original on 15 March 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2014.

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Sources[edit]

Goodman, Fred (2015). Allen Klein: The Man Who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN978-0-547-89686-1.

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