#Andrew Loog Oldham

[bluesrocknrollingstones]

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

Photos by Gered Mankowitz

[callemodista]

The Rolling Stones

[dearmistermuse]

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

[omg-hellgirl]

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

[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

[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

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[jonesbrianshining]

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

[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)

Buy from: Amazon / Amazon / Amazon

[bluesrocknrollingstones]

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

[brianjonescollection]

Brian's contribution can be heard on every track of those recordings at RCA. What that guy didn't play, he went out and learned. You can hear his colour all over songs like Lady Jane or Paint It Black. In some instances it was more than a decorative effect. Sometimes Brian pulled the whole record together.

- Andrew Loog Oldham about Brian and the creation of Aftermath

[maxiemartmanager]

This randomly came on and it’s a nearly perfect pop song. Just literal greatness.

Listen to music! Sometimes you’ll find a little slice that makes you happy to be alive.

[omg-hellgirl]

The Rolling Stones in the March 1965 issue of Rave Magazine (2/2).

[theatrepup]

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)

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