Stoned

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' 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 & became the manager & 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 & revulsion throughout British society & beyond. An ultra-hip mod, flash, brash & schooled in style by Mary Quant, he was a hustler of genius, addicted to scandal, notoriety & innovation. Brian Epstein had hired him to break The Beatles, but it was his thrilling work with the Stones that turned him into a legend & introduced sex & hype to an austere, conservative industry. A ferociously brilliant, near-mythical svengali-figure to many, a manipulative upper-class thug to others, he quickly established himself as the most mercurial & anarchic impresario of the decade. Stoned is Andrew Loog Oldham's astonishing story told in his own words, with contributions from Mary Quant, Pete Townshend, Vidal Sassoon, Nik Cohn, Lionel Bart & many other friends, colleagues & associates.