Stoned

The autobiography of Andrew Loog Oldham, infamous manager and producer of The Rolling Stones, is a hugely entertaining life story that takes in an overview of Sixties London and the birth of British youth culture.

Stoned is not a cautionary tale it's a celebration and carries the hope that any self-respecting impassioned young 19-year-old of today would do the same

A sterling work of brutal youth and brash vulgarity... a heady mix of innocence and glamour, uppers and downers, flashiness and outrage, insouciance and deceit

A dazzling overview of early 60s London life, Stoned is vastly aided by the testimony of everyone from Pete Townshend to Jimmy Greaves

A fascinating and original perspective on that heady moment when a buttoned-up Britain finally lost its innocence and...youth culture was born

The most flash personality British pop ever had, the most anarchic and obsessive and imaginative hustler of all

Andrew Loog Oldham is the author of Stoned, and 2Stoned.

'People say I made the Stones. I didn't. They were there already. They only wanted exploiting. They were all bad boys when I found them. I just brought out the worst in them.' 
 
Andrew Loog Oldham was nineteen years old when he discovered and became the manager and producer of an unknown band called The Rolling Stones. His radical vision transformed them from a starving south London blues combo to the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band That Ever Drew Breath, while the revolutionary strategies he used to get them there provoked both adulation and revulsion throughout British society and beyond. 
 
An ultra-hip mod, flash, brash and schooled in style by Mary Quant, he was a hustler of genius, addicted to scandal, notoriety and innovation.

Andrew Loog Oldham

Fantastic... The definitive book about music, money, rock 'n' roll. Brutally honest, consistently stylish and eminently readable... There is no better history of the period more thrillingly told

2Stoned is the volume everyone has been awaiting, and it doesn't disappoint

Oldham is a prose stylist of no little talent

In 1963, in a south London hotel, Andrew Loog Oldham discovered an unknown rhythm and blues band called the Rolling Stones and became their manager and producer; by 1967 they had achieved worldwide celebrity, been arrested in a notorious drugs raid and split with the manager that made them. 2Stoned is the remarkable record of these years, when Oldham's radical strategies transformed them into the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band That Ever Drew Breath. 
 
In his first book, Stoned, Oldham recorded his early years and the meeting with the Stones that changed all their fates; 2Stoned is the story of what followed.

Andrew Loog Oldham

Praise for 2Stoned

What a ride and what a read

Fantastic... The definitive book about music, money, rock 'n' roll. Brutally honest, consistently stylish and eminently readable... There is no better history of the period more thrillingly told

2Stoned is the volume everyone has been awaiting, and it doesn't disappoint

What a ride and what a read

Fantastic... The definitive book about music, money, rock 'n' roll. Brutally honest, consistently stylish and eminently readable... There is no better history of the period more thrillingly told

2Stoned is the volume everyone has been awaiting, and it doesn't disappoint

What a ride and what a read

Fantastic... The definitive book about music, money, rock 'n' roll. Brutally honest, consistently stylish and eminently readable... There is no better history of the period more thrillingly told

2Stoned is the volume everyone has been awaiting, and it doesn't disappoint

Books by Andrew Loog Oldham

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