#Andrew Loog Oldham

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Charlie , Keith , Andrew, Jack Nitzsche , Stu, Nona Hendryx and Mick , 1965

Photos by Gered Mankowitz

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The Rolling Stones

[omg-hellgirl]

The tension between Brian, Mick and Keith but especially between Brian and Mick came from an ancient feud between them that had been going on for years, since before even Andrew had entered the picture.

Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography.

[dearmistermuse]

Remembering our beloved Shirley Watts on the anniversary of her death today 🕊️❤️

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[chaoticdesertdweller]

"Mime Time" parody segment from Ready, Steady, Go!, in which all members of The Rolling Stones and Cathy McGowan mime to Sonny and Cher's I Got You Babe.

This show aired on Friday, September 10, 1965

[swindledin77]

manager and lead singer 🖤

Brian Epstein and John Lennon Andrew Loog Oldham and Mick Jagger Malcolm McLaren and Johnny Rotten Bernie Rhodes and Joe Strummer

"There was a sense that it was a given that the only people who could see the true erotic sexuality of a pop performer, and nurture it past the point of the amusement of teenage girls, would be a really good manager who was sexually attracted to to his protégé- even if he didn't act on it." - Pete Townshend, The Secret Public

all four lead singers shown here have written at least one song about their managers

You've Got To Hide Your Love Away - The Beatles how could she say to me / "love will find a way"?

Andrew's Blues - The Rolling Stones well, well i let you keep it tonight / if you hold me, hold it real tight / oh, oh Andrew

Liar - Sex Pistols and i know now i wanna know / why you never look me in the face

Bankrobber - The Clash my daddy was a bank robber / but he never hurt nobody

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So there’s a lot of lore around Andrew Loog Oldham’s relationship with Charlie (and Shirley).

You’d expect Andrew not to like him, considering Charlie knocked him out when he was messing around on tour with a gun once:

But he liked Charlie:

Really, really liked Charlie:

To the extant that he was constantly pushing the idea that Charlie could transition to being a famous film star because of how handsome he was and his stage presence:

Something he was still talking about in 2012:

When he said, at the same time, that he chose the title Charlie Is My Darling for their first film “because he is.”

Andrew also seemed to have, based on his 2004 memoir Stoned, some interesting ideas (delusions?) about why Charlie did what he did on songs:

Oh, and he also bragged, 40 or so years after the fact, about watching Charlie and Shirley have s*x at Edith Grove:

All of which is probably why Keith always looked like he was having some kind of existential crisis whenever Andrew was within 500 feet of Charlie:

ok first of all THANK YOU FOR WRITING ALL OF THIS OUT AND INCLUDING QUOTES AND PICTURES, YOU ARE AN ABSOLUTE ANGEL 😢❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

everyone (and by everyone i mean those IORR boomers) always talks about charlie punching mick (boring and cliché) WHEN WHAT WE SHOULD REALLY BE TALKING ABOUT IS CHARLIE KNOCKING OUT ANDREW!?!?!? 😭

the first photo absolutely proves his point though. charlie looks stunning and radiant and beautiful and handsome and-

“i thought the fills were just for me” is reaching keith levels of delusion omg

thank you again for this, i learned a lot! 🥰 it seems like every 60s band manager was deeply in love with at least one of their own members 😅

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Brian Jones, Andrew Loog Oldham and Mick Jagger shopping at Beau Gentry on North Vine Street in Hollywood - June 1964

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Has anyone seen these before!? Because there be times when I search for photos, they be having lots of archives and some we've seen before

I found these on mediastorehouse

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Billy Nicholls - London Social Degree (1968)

Billy's first album, produced by Andrew Oldham, featuring The Small Faces. This sought-after album only achieved an initial promotional run of 100 copies before Immediate Records ran into difficulty.

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Mick Jagger and Andrew Loog Oldham photographed by Marc Sharratt, 60s.

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Keith Richards and Andrew Loog Oldham relaxing by the pool at the Singapura Hotel, Singapore in February 1965.

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Andrew Loog Oldham talks about Brian Jones' work on "She Smiled Sweetly." Plus a photo from the Monterey Festival I haven't seen before. (from the book 1967: A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love by Harvey Kubernik)

[rockingreads]

Simon Napier-Bell:

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (1982)

Black Vinyl, White Powder: The Real Story of the British Music Industry (2001)

I'm Coming to Take You to Lunch: A Fantastic Tale of Boys, Booze and How Wham! Were Sold to China (2005)

Simon Napier-Bell managed The Yardbirds and Marc Bolan in the ‘60s, Japan in the ‘70s, and Wham! in the ‘80s.

Though he committed his fair share of shameless P.R. stunts, same as other hype-seeking ‘60s contemporaries like Robert Stigwood, Andrew Loog-Oldham, and Kit Lambert, Napier-Bell was candid enough to share every last sordid detail in his first book, You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me.

Whatever part of the music industry you might have worked in (management, labels, publishing, etc.), when Napier-Bell turns his ruthlessly caustic but spot-on accusations your way, I guarantee that you WILL squirm!

Not only is this book essential reading, it’s a laugh-riot.

I can’t and won’t impose the same “must-read” status upon Simon’s commendable but very flawed attempt to recount the entire history of the British music industry in his second book, Black Vinyl, White Powder.

Here, his deep knowledge and razor-sharp insights are frequently undermined by his personal tastes, professional biases, sizable blind-spots, and the same devil-may-care glibness that works so well elsewhere.

Not so much in a supposedly serious historical account, and it doesn't help that Napier-Bell's "history" ends along with the 20th Century, before the digital revolution changed everything.

So I suggest reaching for I'm Coming to Take You to Lunch instead, as this is Napier-Bell’s irreverent recounting of how he combined his primary obsessions — music, food, and the Far East — to make Wham! the first Western pop act to perform in communist China.

Along with the other books here, this one also sheds an important light on the LGBTQ+ community’s underrated influence and contribution to the entertainment industry over the last century.

Featured Records:

The Yardbirds: Having a Rave Up With The Yardbirds (1965)

T.Rex: Electric Warrior (1971)

George Michael: Faith (1987)

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