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Biography
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Andrew Loog Oldham

1944

English music producer, manager, and writer who managed the Rolling Stones from 1963 to 1967 and is credited with creating their rebellious bad-boy image as a counterpoint to the Beatles' clean-cut persona. His two-volume memoir — Stoned (2000) and 2Stoned (2002) — is one of the wildest and most entertaining accounts of the 1960s British rock scene, written in a breathless, name-dropping, speed-fuelled prose style.

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PeriodContemporary
NationalityBritish
1. Biography

A short life of the author

Andrew Loog Oldham (born 1944 in Paddington, London) was the manager and producer of the Rolling Stones during their most explosive early period (1963–1967). At nineteen, he saw the Stones at the Crawdaddy Club, signed them immediately, and crafted their public image — long-haired, surly, dangerous — as the anti-Beatles. He produced their records through Between the Buttons (1967), including “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” before parting ways with the band amid personal and financial chaos.

Memoirs

Stoned (2000, Secker & Warburg) and 2Stoned (2002, Secker & Warburg) are his two-volume autobiography — a manic, self-mythologising, endlessly digressive account of Swinging London, the British Invasion, Phil Spector (whom Oldham idolised), and the drug-fuelled excess of the 1960s music industry. The books are valued for their insider perspective and their sheer energy.

Rolling Stoned (2011) and other writings continued his musical memoirs.

Collecting Oldham

Stoned (2000, Secker & Warburg) and 2Stoned (2002) first UK editions bring $30–$80. Signed copies are available through music memorabilia dealers. The books are collected alongside Rolling Stones memorabilia and 1960s music history.