#Andrew Loog Oldham

[dollyluvme]

charlie watts, 1969 (hyde park?)

[bluesrocknrollingstones]

Photos I found on auction.fr photos by Mario Gurieri , Gaillard F , APIS, Paul Morrissey, Guyaux J and Jurisch H.O.

[omg-hellgirl]

Mick was young and very naive. He may have been under the illusion that I actually was the slightly ditzy, aristocratic, virginal child-troubadour that Andrew Oldham and Andy Wickham had cooked up.

Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography.

[callemodista]

The Rolling Stones

[dearmistermuse]

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

[moonlightmile12]

[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

[slit-skirts]

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 😅

[waugh-bao]

[dollyluvme]

charlie watts, 1965

[bluesrocknrollingstones]

Green Park and London Palladium photos, 1967 photos by DMR and David Magnus

[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.

[jonesbrianshining]

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

[dearmistermuse]

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

[britrockaholic2]

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.