Andrew Loog Oldham

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Andrew Loog Oldham

Andrew Loog Oldham (born January 29, 1944 ) is an English musician, journalist and music manager . From 1963 to 1967 he was the manager of the English music group Rolling Stones . Oldham's mother was Australian and his father, who died in World War II , was Dutch-American.

life and work

In 1955, Andrew Loog Oldham dedicated himself to rock music . He was expelled from school at the age of 16 for skipping classes too often. After leaving school, he worked briefly as a window dresser for the fashion designer Mary Quant and as a journalist for the NEMS company, led by Brian Epstein . He later tried his hand at being a pop singer, but had very little success.

In February 1963, Oldham had offered his skills to Brian Epstein. He wanted to help him get the Liverpool pop group Gerry & the Pacemakers big. The collaboration ended in April of the same year. Looking for a job, he stopped by the music magazine Record Mirror and caught the word "wild" during a conversation. His interest in the Rolling Stones was aroused and he used a concert to get to know the band. He was impressed by them and spoke to them right after the concert. In this conversation he offered the group to become their manager. Rolling Stones members Mick Jagger and Keith Richards , for their part, were impressed by Oldham's demeanor, and so they met to work out a contract. This contract stipulated that Oldham would take care of the Rolling Stones' image, while Eric Easton would take care of the financial:

“As manager, Oldham took everything in the Stones and inflated it a hundred times its size. Long-haired and ugly and anarchistic as they were, Oldham strengthened them in these qualities, and he transformed them into everything that parents hated most, what they feared most. "

In March 1964, John Dunbar Oldham introduced his girlfriend and future wife, Marianne Faithfull . Oldham was enthusiastic, and in order to promote them, he asked the Rolling Stones to write a song for them, which they did with the ballad As Tears Go By . In the fall of 1967, Oldham was fired from the Rolling Stones as manager.

In 1966, Oldham founded the Immediate Records label . As a music producer he was able to win Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, among others. The label had artists such as The Small Faces , The Nice , Chris Farlowe , Amen Corner and Humble Pie under contract. After 28 released albums, Immediate Records was disbanded in 1970.

Andrew Loog Oldham married Sheila Klein in Glasgow in 1964, a friend of Linda Keith , who was in a relationship with Keith Richards between 1963 and 1966.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c NikCohn: AWopBopaLooBop ALopBamBoom - Nik Cohn's Pop History . German first edition, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 1971. ISBN 3-499-11542-5 . In: Chapter The Rolling Stones, p. 122 ff.
  2. ↑ Nik Cohn on Andrew Loog Oldham in: AWopBopaLooBop ALopBamBoom - Nik Cohn's Pop History. German translation by Teja Schwaner. Darin, p. 125: The Rolling Stones . The spelling and punctuation of the German first edition from 1971 have been adopted.
  3. ↑ Mark Paytress, Rolling Stones: Off The Record. Bosworth Musikverlag 2003, ISBN 9780711988699 .
personal data
SURNAME Oldham, Andrew Loog
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician and manager
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1944